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UPCOMING: Adapting journalism to the new news ecology

Journalism That Matters: (A Poynter Conference)
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The New News Ecology means new jobs, new tools, new relationships, new businesses.
But journalism’s very survival — at least its values and functions — depends on the ability of news organizations — and citizens — to adapt to a [...]

AmericanTowns.com coming to your town…WIIFY?

What’s in it for you?
AmericanTowns.com has solicited placebloggers to provide hyperlocal content to their national platform. Have you gotten a solicitation? Have you considered it? Now, they’ve launched a new widget for their calendar, which makes it easy for a placeblogger to add a calendar sourced from AmericanTowns contributors. Would you use it? So What’s [...]

Mapping the Newsroom

While preparing for News Tools 2008, a small group, including Chris Peck, Chris O’brien, Martin Reynolds, Kara Andrade, Kaliya Hamlin, Dave Cohn, Stephen Silha, and Peggy Holman, and others came together to develop a value network map of the existing news room:

And a first pass at key roles and relationships of the emerging “news ecology”:

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