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Community Funded Reporting

By On June 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This week Ruby and I went to two conferences in Minneapolis. The first one done in Open Space / Unconference style was New Pamphleteers/New Reporters:Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs at the University of Minnesota. (What a long name huh?)

One of the best ideas I heard this week was [...]

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myncCamp – TV Station does a BarCamp

By On April 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Before BarCamp RDU gets here there is another event with a serious Bay Area guest. Its called myncCamp and its sponsored by NBC17. (Get more info on the myncCamp wiki.) They have a new portal website called mync.com. The station is soliciting input and is going about it [...]

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Your Comments are Valuable

By On November 13, 2007 · 5 Comments

Ever notice how your comments on the Chapel Hill News blog Orange Chat end up in the paper? First time I noticed my comments there I though, “Wow. That’s cool. My words in print for people to see.” Its kind of like a letter to the editor. But now I am concerned that all [...]

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NYTimes Pay Wall Comes Down

By On September 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Times to End Charges on Web Site This is major like Google buying YouTube. It will open minds to so much. Especially old skool newspaper owners. I hope. Will think more about this and maybe comment more later. wow. I found out via: Justinsomnia

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Why you should care about the Carrboro Citizen

By On May 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Jock Lauterer has a straight to the point bit of witting in this weeks Carrboro Citizen called Why we should support our hometown newspaper. My fav part:

So why is this new paper special? How is it different from the others? And why should you care about whether The Citizen fails or [...]

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Buying the War

By On April 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Bill Moyers has a great new piece called Buying the War. All the video is online here. I’ve only gotten through chapter one but I can already tell how very important this documentary is. History will be kind to the view that the main stream media was hoodwinked by the Bush administration. What [...]

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KFTY lays off staff, will Rely on Viewer Submitted Content

By On February 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good friend sent me a link to a blog post called Scenes from the media revolution.

Thomas Lifson
A small terrestrial (i.e., the kind that uses normal tower-based transmission) broadcast television station, KFTY, Channel 50 in Santa Rosa, California, has fired its entire news staff and is going to rely on viewer-submitted [...]

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Harnessing the Work of Bloggers

By On February 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I wrote the following on my AudioActivism blog on May 24th, 2006.

Techorati has announced a new business relationship with the Associated Press. Read more about it at Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide.

I was once told that the real definition of a [...]

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N&O adds blog about Orange County

By On January 19, 2007 · 1 Comment

Orange Chat

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Welcome to Orange Chat

Did you ever read a story and say, “I wish the reporter had asked …”

Well, the truth is sometimes we did but there wasn’t space to put it in the paper.

Welcome to Orange Chat, where we hope to expand on [...]

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A Carrboro news blog called The Mill

By On December 7, 2006 · 1 Comment

Kirk Ross has set up The Mill a Carrboro news blog. He has tons of journalistic experience and really understands the vibe of the Town of Carrboro. I’m really looking forward to it as a trusted source of LOCAL news. Yah! Carrboro, North Cackalacky! Good luck with this Kirk!

From The Mill:

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