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David Mastio – Blogospheric Election Coverage
Posted on 09. Jun, 2008 by David Cohn.
From David Mastio: Follow the state-level and congressional elections through the eyes of bloggers actually on the ground. “The idea is simple — you go to Google blog search or Technorati or Memeorandum and look for info on local or even statewide elections, you’re going to end up with posts from blogs halfway across the […]
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Interview – Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation
Posted on 04. Jun, 2008 by David Cohn.
Continuing to keep a record of where people go post-Networked Journalism Summit, here’s an interview with the Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller. You can see a past interview with Bill Allison here.
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NewsTools at Yahoo – The Conversations Continue
Posted on 05. May, 2008 by David Cohn.
Many of the attendees of the NewsTools conference at Yahoo were also part of the Networked Journalism Summit in New York. I tried to track a few of them down to find out what they are up to now and what’s next.
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Birthin’ Barista’s babe
Posted on 01. May, 2008 by David Cohn.
Via Jeff Jarvis I’m proud to say that this is one of the outcomes of the Networked Journalism conference at CUNY last fall: Baristanet and the Star-Ledger are joining to create a cobranded print guide to the Barista’s turf, Montclair, NJ, with content from both partners, Star-Ledger distribution, and shared effort on the advertising. So […]
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BostonNOW – Despite Growing is Shutting Down
Posted on 14. Apr, 2008 by David Cohn.
Via Lucas Grindley In response to the numerous e-mails I’ve gotten but haven’t had time to respond to, that headline pretty much sums it up. From every indicator, BostonNOW was heading in all the right directions. Circulation was shooting upward and revenues were following. Since I took over the reigns at the Web site just […]
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Leonard Witt – Representative Journalism
Posted on 14. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Chris Densmore, Chris Peck and Leonard Witt spent a big part of yesterday with our Northfield, Minnesota collaborators at Locally Grown, where the first Representative Journalismexperiment will take place. Representative Journalism is Leonard Witt’s project to experiment in new business models of journalism. You can listen to the podcast where Leonard and the rest talk about […]
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Bill Densmore – Journalism That Matters
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Bringing technologists and journalists into closer orbit with other is one longterm goal of the Networked Journalism Summit, and several of NetJourn’s participants are now hard at work on an event in Silicon Valley to do just that. NewsTools2008.org is a project of the Journalism That Matters collaborative set for April 30-May 3 at the […]
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Jennifer Carroll – Gannett
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Our major focus now is leveraging our new social networking tools across the company to engage communities, improve crowdsourcing and watchdog reporting. We’ve developed deep resource sites with examples and best practices. The Democrat and Chronicle just launched today with a networking site for Young Professionals and Wine Lovers. Check out the new design and […]
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Rachel Sterne – GroundReport.com
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Since the summit, GroundReport has focused on international coverage and syndication. We’re syndicating content so that people can find GroundReport stories wherever they live online. One tool that helps people get GroundReport is our news widget, which works on iGoogle, Apple dashboard, Netvibes and Vista. We’ve also integrated with Technorati and are working to do […]
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Chris Anderson – Journalism Schools Blog
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
It’s a very small project, I admit, but the CUNY Conference inspired me to start a new (hopefully, eventually, collaborative) blog: JournalismSchool.wordpress.com. The origins of which are detailed here.
