Archive for October, 2007
Gannett's Story
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Juliana Bunim.
Gannett’s Story with Jennifer Carroll of Gannett and MacKenzie Warren and Kate Marymount of the Ft Myers Press CROWD SOURCING — Ft. Myers enlisting their community in their journalism. Explored how FEMA distributed aid. FEMA was forced legally to turn records over. FMP has the infrastructure to enter the records into their database and turn […]
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crowd sourcing…
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
Crowd sourcing. Going out, talking to those you cover and running with what they suggest. Fort Meyers News-Press example of enlisting community….Fought a long costly battle in court with FEMA. Got the records on how the $$ was spent, flowed info into database and turned it to the public by posting immediately. The paper had […]
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International developments
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Matthew Sollars.
10:32 Moderator Neil McIntosh of the Guardian kicks the panel off with introductions of panelists: Adrian Monck of City University of London’s journalism education program. He has launched a collaboration with Sky News developing a group of citizen correspondents and a resource that allows the public to track their FOI requests.
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The people formerly known as the audience
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Massey.
Participants: Dan Pacheco, Northwest Voice, John Wilpers, Boston Now; Jarah Euston, Fresno Famous; Dan Barkin, Raleigh News and Observer Moderator: David Cohn The panelists talked of their development of user-generated content on the local level, involving those who Barkin called “people formerly known as the audience.”
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WaPo buys ads for their bloggers
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
A big sales force (Washington Post) selling ads for blogs and moving beyond it’s old school system? Jeff Burkett of WashingtonPost.com says promoting bloggers on their own property is a unique offering. WaPo not focused on local but national. It’s a cycle, he said. You’re promoting them and driving your traffic up. The ad part […]
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reverse publishing? blogs and print working together?
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
The local pioneer panelists are all involved in print in some way. Jarvis calls it a “great irony.” Jarah Euston of Fresno Famous sold the site to the Fresno Bee and now the paper includes a page devoted to site content. Is the collaboration between online and print a testament to the inability of the […]
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Revenue
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Benjamin Levisohn.
Because even journalists need to eat. This session features: Jeff Burkett of WashingtonPost.com: Began from a series of blog posts Burkett wrote addressing the question of how to place advertiser’s content that doesn’t fit on the paper or website of a traditional news organization with its emphasis on reporting timely news. The Blogroll program that […]
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jarvis and shepard introduce the summit
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
jarvis introduces- 190 participants! there’s a lot of interest in this topic. “journalism can and must expand. only one way is to collaborate, pro-am…do things together more than apart.” -jeff jarvis This is the place of the best practitioners. The fondest hope is to talk about what’s next. it’s all about experimentation. first conference, bloggercon […]
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Leading up to the Networked Journalism Summit
Posted on 09. Oct, 2007 by Jeff Jarvis.
Wednesday morning, the Networked Journalism Summit opens at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Students will be liveblogging at this summit blog and I’ll ask the participants to tag their posts, photos, videos, etc. “netj.” Rachel Sterne from Ground Report also plans to broadcast from the summit. Jay Rosen beats them to the punch tonight with […]
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A Collection of 56 writeups
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
As Jeff Jarvis has noted several times, part of what makes this conference different will be the emphasis on next steps. To encourage that, we want participants of the Networked Journalism Summit to know each other, what they have done and want to accomplish. Half of the writeups below were reported over the phone by […]
