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If you want a way for your (hyperlocal) web site to smartly differentiate topical content on your site, check out my post on the Poynter E-Media Tidbits group blog, which outlines a cool set of WordPress tools developed by Knight Digital Media Center.

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That's what Mark Glaser is asking in the IdeaLab blog, as part of an effort to gather info for a Knight Foundation Commission.

What he's after is this: What do you feel is missing in your own local community, when it comes to being informed, especia… Continue

FYI, Columbia Journalism Review just sent this along (although it appears only part of the package, on the launch of GlobalPost, is available online thus far):

"Journalism is searching for a support system, a business model that works. And that model is likely to emerge from people willing to gamble on new ideas.

"In the new March/April issue of CJR we present a cover package—"Do or Die"— in which several journalists with journalistic/entrepreneurial visions, from NPR's Adam Davidson to Politi… Continue

There's an important discussion going on the SeedProjects page about the right approach to developing a community news "assessment tool." One question is do we try to develop "templates of success" right away, or do we simply help entrepreneurial journalists make sure they're asking the right questions before plunging in? I'd make a case for the latter.

Compiling the "right questions" lists is more feasible now, simply bec… Continue

If you're feeling at all nostalgic, here's a good way to get it out of your system - check out this amazing old journalism vocational training film, with its ridiculously sexist references to the role of "girls" in journalism (at 5:05), or it's impossibly sunny homage to the life of the country editor (at 8:17). But within is a great quote for today's journalist (at 1:32): "Amid the turmoil and confusion, the reporter must be able to think clearly and quickly." It's in reference to covering fire… Continue