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Monday will be the one-year anniversary of my launch.
It was not much of a launch, to be honest. I had the idea to do something for months, took it down a few roads, knocked on a few doors. Decided that I should stop making lists and thinking about…
In my corporate-news-media career, I won a few awards ... three Emmys are gathering dust on the shelf over the washing machine.Haven't gotten around to entering awards competition for this endeavor yet - but we just won an award that we want to ment…
Hi,I'd like to get everyone who is bootstrapping a new media venture together or wants to in one place for a weekend conference in San Antonio to learn from one another. Who would be willing to participate? I could set up something for early October…
The goal is to find models (templates) for journalists who want to start sites or blogs to profitably cover local news.
Great idea. I'll tell you I haven't seen as many conflicts yet as I do with citizen journalists who haven't been trained in conflicts of interest. I've been a professional journalist for more than two decades so I know that if something doesn't seem…
Tim,
Ben Ullman of Tega Cay (just outside of Charlotte) is using Ning as one of the J-Lab partners with The Charlotte Observer for his site, Tega Cay Talk. I'll send a link from your post to him. I'm sure he'd love to talk.
Check @tegacaytalk on Twi…
BTW, great thought at the heart of this idea -- that businesses themselves would be an integral part of the news/information community. Adds such a fascinating new dimension to the traditional relationship of journalists and local businesses, one we…
Tim, a really interesting idea. We've certainly seen Ning social networks created for news purposes, such as what NPR's Andy Carvin did for coverage of Hurricane Gustav in 2008. Carvin says he had some 500 people involved, many using the network to…
Community Foundations are a growing source of funding and other
resources for local news and media projects. On Mar. 1-2 2010,
Collaboratory co-manager Amy Gahran is attending a Knight
Foundation "Media Learning Seminar" where community and
place-ba…
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A Year in Review
Monday will be the one-year anniversary of my launch.
It was not much of a launch, to be honest. I had the idea to do something for months, took it down a few roads, knocked on a few doors. Decided that I should stop making lists and thinking about it and bugging people and just start doing it. So last year in March, I chose a name, spent a weekend setting up a Wordpress.com page and launched.
At first, only my best friend and my husband were read
… Continue Posted by Amy Senk on March 12, 2010 at 7:26am
Honored for the business side of things
In my corporate-news-media career, I won a few awards ... three Emmys are gathering dust on the shelf over the washing machine.
Haven't gotten around to entering awards competition for this endeavor yet - but we just won an award that we want to mention here, because it speaks to the "entrepreneurial" part of "entrepreneurial journalists in action."
Much to our shock and delight, the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce has just announced us as winners of the Business of the Year a… Continue
Haven't gotten around to entering awards competition for this endeavor yet - but we just won an award that we want to mention here, because it speaks to the "entrepreneurial" part of "entrepreneurial journalists in action."
Much to our shock and delight, the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce has just announced us as winners of the Business of the Year a… Continue
Posted by Tracy Record on March 11, 2010 at 10:30pm
Conference for Independent Journalists
Hi,
I'd like to get everyone who is bootstrapping a new media venture together or wants to in one place for a weekend conference in San Antonio to learn from one another. Who would be willing to participate? I could set up something for early October.
What do you guys think?
Posted by Laura Lorek on March 10, 2010 at 8:54am
What's New -- Week of March 1, 2010
- RJI Collaboratory provided liveblogging coverage of a March 1-2 Knight Foundation "community information needs" gathering that brought together community foundation leaders with journalism and technology experts. Check out the conference coverage from Collab manager
Posted by RJIWhatsNew on March 5, 2010 at 9:00am
What We're Reading
How to avoid what's happened to American newspapers: Part one
consume technology like a starving man at a free buffetThe New News Landscape: Rise of the Internet - Pew Research Center
Internet users use the Web for a range of news, but local is not near the top of the list: The most popular online news subjects are the weather (followed by 81% of internet news users), national events (73%), health and medicine (66%), business and the economy (64%), international events (62%), and science and technology (60%). Asked what subjects they would like to receive more coverage, 44% said scientific news and discoveries, 41% said religion and spirituality, 39% said health and medicine, 39% said their state government, and 38% said their neighborhood or local community.Lessons for U.S. Media From European Paid-Content Plays - Global News - Advertising Age
Here is a brief report of the experience of European publishers with various paid-content programs.INSPIRE - A publication from the Adobe Experience Design team
Interesting peek at what may be ahead for magazines with the iPad.LIVEBLOG: Community Foundations Meet to Discuss Local Media: Mar 1-2, 2010
Community Foundations are a growing source of funding and other resources for local news and media projects. On Mar. 1-2 2010, Collaboratory co-manager Amy Gahran is attending a Knight Foundation "Media Learning Seminar" where community and place-based foundations leaders will meet with journalism and technology experts to explore community information needs. (Presenter list)
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