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 with dave winer. “there is no panel, the room is the panel.” -dave winer
skip past the powerpoint, go right into the conversation.
invite the elephant in the room- revenue.
-georgia kral
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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 a great post that both walks up to the summit and shares his lessons from NewAssignment.net. Jay’s summary:
That is my attempt to map the perimeter: solutions lie within. Division of labor is the key creative decision in acts of distributed reporting. Grok the motivations or it can’t be done. Watch for ballooning coordination costs as ramp up succeeds. Where the small pieces meet the larger narrative the alchemy of the project lives. Shared background knowledge raises group capacity. Extant communities already coordinate well.
No one is saying that collaborative, pro-am, networked journalism is the cure to the industry’s ills or that it will replace the professional model. I believe that it is one means by which journalism can and should expand now — even as journalistic organizations’ revenue and often staffs decline. New Assignment is one way to try this — with Rosen et al or on your own, as Brian Lehrer at WNYC has done. And the day’s participants will hear about many other endeavors in other models. I hope we all leave with information and inspiration and new ideas to implement and experiment with. We will report back on their plans and will follow up with progress reports.
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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 me – the other half were emailed in. See someone you are interested in below — leave them a comment!
Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman – Houston Chronicle
Donica Mensing – Reynolds School of Journalism
Amanda Michael – OffTheBus.Net
Bill Allison – Sunlight Foundation
Robin Sloan, Andrew Fitzgerald – Current TV
Jason Oberfest – Los Angeles Times
Howard Owens – GateHouse Media
Brian Conley – Alive in Baghdad
Adrian Monck – City University of London
Patrick Phillips – The Vineyard Voice
Mary Mathews – Pound Productions,LLC
Dorian Benkoil – Digital Media Consultant/Columnist/Teeming Media
Chrys Wu – CBS TV Digital Media Group
Chris Lydon – Open Source Radio
James Kotecki – Video Blogger/Politico
Micah Sifry – Personal Democracy Forum
Derek Willis – Database Journalism at Washingtonpost.com
Jeff Burkett – WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive blogs
Michael Rosenblum – Democratizing Video via Rosenblum Associates
Kate Marymont and Mackenzie Warren – Fort Myers
Lisa Williams – H2OTown, Placeblogger
Rick Waghorn – MyFootballWriter
No Longer Attending 
Edward Roussel – The Telegraph
Paul Bass – New Haven Independent
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Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman – Houston Chronicle (Chron.com)
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism.
At chron.com, the Web site for the Houston Chronicle, we began engaging readers in our coverage several years ago, sharing their photos and experiences in Houston’s flood of 2001, their opinions during the 2004 political conventions and election and their live experiences from the ballpark during the Houston Astros World Series games. Since early 2006 we have given readers a more consistent voice with featured blogs on everything from local sports teams to parenting and birdwatching. More recently, we have expanded that interaction to include social networking features, story comments, photo galleries, group blogs and more in an area we call the chron.Commons (http://commons.chron.com).
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Chris Tolles – Topix
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism.
I’m a cofounder and CEO of Topix, which is a community site focused around local news. We enable people to comment on any of the articles we’ve aggregated from over 50,000 sources, as well as submitting, discussing or editing original stories or commentary about any town in the US as well as hundreds of thousands of other topics. We syndicate commentary and community for other publishers and have automated systems to help manage and moderate community around news on the web.
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Mike Orren – Pegasus News
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your Work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism.
President and founder of Pegasus News, which launched in DFW in 2006. We’re a “panlocal” site, meaning that we deliver hyperlocal news and data on an entire metro area. We then customize that content for each individual user via a mechanism called “The Daily You.” We use a hybrid of staff, content partner (professional and blogger) and community-contributed content, and don’t distinguish between the three. […]
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John Oppedahl
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism.
My experience has been in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and publisher (Detroit Free Press, Dallas Times Herald, L.A. Herald Examiner, Arizona Republic, San Francisco Chronicle) so the closest I’ve come is in helping to develop two websites, AZCentral.com for The Arizona Republic in Phoenix and SFgate.com for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Steve Safran – Lost Remote
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism.
I’ve been writing about the topic since 2000 and have been evangelizing its message since before we even knew what to call it. (Do we know what to call it yet?) At Lost Remote, Cory Bergman and I have been “blogging since before blogging was called ‘blogging'” about networked journalism and convergence and we have been among its more vocal supporters. Also people have yelled at me a lot about this topic, which tells me I must be on to something.
As a consultant now with AR&D, Terry Heaton and I work with traditional media outlets to develop networked journalism programs. It’s working. Local media companies are hearing the call and it’s amazing to see it when the pieces fall into place. The resistance is slowly crumbling and when it does, wonderful acts of journalism happen.
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Rob Neppell – N.Z. Bear
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism.
In 2002, I created the first blog ranking system, The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, and have been active in blogs and new media ever since.
I am the co-founder with Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds of Porkbusters, and spearheaded the “Secret Hold” effort which resulted in the passage of the historic Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act which will require that all federal spending be posted online in a searchable database accessible to all citizens. Resurrecting a key government transparency bill from oblivion, the Secret Hold campaign was one of the most successful and effective online activism efforts ever (and was also a lot of fun).
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Donica Mensing – Reynolds School of Journalism
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Main goal
I think journalism has tremendous potential to help communities improve their capacity to act democratically, but many current practices simply reinforce an expert-driven, elite dominated political system. How can we use Web 2.0 technologies and a public-oriented journalism to empower people to strengthen and improve their communities, rather than remain stuck in interest-group driven conflict?
