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RJI Collaboratory commented on Tim Robertson's blog post 'New Way For News Sites to Get Business to Pay?'

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…

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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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We develop and test ways to improve journalism through new technology and improved processes.

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Liveblog coming Mar 1-2: Community foundations funding community news

Community foundations are a growing source of funding for local news and media. Understanding how community foundations work, what they want, and how to work with them can help launch or grow local news startups.

On Mar. 1-2, 2010, RJI Collaboratory co-manager Amy Gahran will liveblog a Knight Foundation "Media Learning Seminar" where community and place-based fou… Continue

Posted on February 27, 2010 at 10:30pm —

Free training from Knight Digital Media Center: APPLY NOW!

The Knight Digital Media Center, a great resource for digital journalists, has some upcoming training opportunities that might be especially useful for entrepreneurial journalists working on niche or hyperlocal venues.

Apply by the deadlines noted below and you could win fellowships to cover all costs of this training. Deadlines are coming up soon, so apply now. Here's what's on offer:

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Posted on February 7, 2010 at 5:11pm —

FCC wants your comments on Future of Media by March 8

The FCC recently announced a new "Future of Media" initiative, and they're seeking comments. This is a good opportunity for emerging hyperlocal and niche news outlets to influence national media policy. So if you want your voice heard, speak up by March 8.

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Posted on February 7, 2010 at 4:45pm —

Liveblog Transcripts: Reimagining News & Community in the Pacific NW

On Jan 7-10, Journalism That Matters hosted a regional unconference in Seattle, Reimagining News & Community in the Pacific NW.

RJI's Director of Program Development, Roger Gafke, attended the event and liveblogged the proceedings. RJI Collaboratory community manager Amy Gahran assisted with this liveblogging by remote, and also liveblogged the events of Sunday morning Jan 10.

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At 6:13pm on March 5, 2010, Laura Lorek said…: Hi Adam,
Thanks so much. I appreciate all of your help in getting the word out. I'm really excited to become a newsentrepreneur. Please stay tuned because when SXSW kicks off next Friday I plan to post daily photos, blog entries and some videos. I've covered SXSW Interactive for several years, but always as a newspaper reporter with the San Antonio Express-News. I'm totally excited to go it on my own this year and I hope to be an inspiration to other ex-pro journos to pursue news ventures of their own. I've never had more fun.

At 11:19am on March 4, 2010, Laura Lorek said…: Thank you Adam for welcoming me to the site. I'm experimenting with a new technology blog www.techchi.com right now. I'll be attending SXSW Interactive in Austin in 9 days. I wrote a blog for four years for the San Antonio Express-News in addition to all my other reporting duties. I'm looking forward to focusing my reporting efforts on my entrepreneurial venture.

At 6:07pm on January 26, 2010, Nancy White said…: Thanks for the welcome. I'll poke around the site!

At 6:34pm on November 19, 2009, David W Baldwin said…: Thanks! Hopefully some of my stuff makes sense :-o

At 10:37pm on November 18, 2009, Tracy Record said…: When I tried to sign in, the system told me it needed to verify my e-mail address. OK, I thought, that's not unheard of. So when I verified - voila, it told me I had a new account. ????

At 2:39pm on October 21, 2009, Robin Phillips said…: Excellent. thanks for the tip on ways to snoop around and see what's going on.

At 3:20pm on September 16, 2009, Michael Skoler said…: Thanks for the welcome. I'm glad to be counted among the co-conspirators here.

At 6:59am on September 11, 2009, Gina Germani said…: Thank you very much, Adam! I'll start poking around shortly here!

At 3:40pm on June 29, 2009, Taylor Walsh said…: Thanks for the welcome Adam. Those freaky bogus users are now turning up on Twitter and sending Follow requests. If she's cute, but has that slightly odd gaze of a tired hooker, banish her!

At 9:56am on June 10, 2009, Osha Davidson said…: Thanks. I just attended the week-long Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment, which was great. Your presentation, Adam, was extremely helpful for those of us working to create a new biz model centered on the Web and new media. Since I returned I've added Google Ads to my site and have approached pubs with large online presence about contributing to their blogs (to drive readers to my own site), started looking for corporate underwriters, and most important, added an RJI widget to my site.