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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Meet Front Porch Forum
By Kathleen Majorsky Front Porch Forum (FPF) is an online space that serves small towns and neighborhoods in just about a third of Vermont. Each FPF helps improve Vermont’s local community ecosystem. Hosting these neighborhood conversations leads to face-to-face interaction … Continue reading
BxB 2012 Summit dates set! Save the dates: Sept. 13-15
We’re announcing our summit dates for 2012 – Sept. 13-15. We’ll start with dinner on Thursday, Sept. 13 and wrap up around midday on Saturday, Sept. 15. Loyola University in downtown Chicago has graciously invited us back, and we like … Continue reading
Florida site focuses on investigative reporting
By Kathleen Majorsky In a time when traditional media in Florida was slashing their investigative reporting resources, Trevor Aaronson and his business partner Mc Nelly Torres founded the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Instead of competing with traditional media in … Continue reading
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Tagged bilingual, Florida, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, foundations, investigative journalism, McNelly Torres, Spanish, student journalists, Trevor Aaronson
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Who is Block by Block? Meet Suzanne McBride at Austin Talks
Kathleen Majorsky, a journalist who worked with Michele McLellan and Janet Coats at RJI, is writing a series of posts called “Who is Block by Block?” for The Patterson Foundation website to introduce the foundation community to the sites and … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Austin Talks, Chicago, Columbia College, comments, community engagement, community journalism, community news sites, student journalists, Suzanne McBride
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Training the public in media tools builds contributor base for Akron nonprofit news site
The Akronist local news site is not quite a year old, but since its January soft launch editor Chris Miller has built a grassroots network of more than 300 contributors, including 160 media trainees. The site specializes in video reporting … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Akron, Akronist, hyperlocal, nonprofit community news, Ohio
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IRS slows approvals of journalism nonprofits
If you are thinking about going the nonprofit news route, take a look at this post by Josh Stearns and an article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy that reports that applications for nonproft status by journalism organizations are “stuck in … Continue reading
Posted in Policy
Tagged Investigative News Network, IRS, Josh Stearns, Journal of Philanthropy, nonprofit
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Growing a local audience one photo at a time: Case study of MyVeronaNJ
Virginia Citrano founded community news site MyVeronaNJ in Verona, New Jersey, in December 2009. Citrano has been steadily building her site for sustainability and last year she and contributing photographer Fred Goode ran a weekly photo contest “Where in Verona?” … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Uncategorized
Tagged building audience, community engagement, community news, hyperlocal, MyVeronaNJ, New Jersey, photo contest, photo contributor, photo galleries, photos, Verona, Virginia Citrano
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Twitter tips: Make it a community conversation
From Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement & Social Media at the Journal Register Co., some great tips for converting your Twitter stream from a one-way platform to a community conversation. A sampling: – Comment on the links you tweet … Continue reading
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Tagged community engagement, conversation, social media, Steve Buttry, Twitter
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Getting local: Paths to sustainability for nonprofit news
Knight Foundation has just published a new report that details revenue, spending and engagement practices at seven of the larger nonprofit news sites like MinnPost and Voice of San Diego. Their challenges are similar to those of smaller, entrepreneurial independent … Continue reading
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Tagged Crosscut, engagement, Knight Foundation, MinnPost, New Haven Independent, nonprofit, revenue, St. Louis Beacon, sustainability, Texas Tribune, The Bay Citizen, Voice of San Diego
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Tucson Sentinel focuses on keeping the community talking
By Kathleen Majorsky In 2009, Gannett shut down the Tucson Citizen, one of the city’s two newspapers, after 138 years. The city’s morning newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, continued to provide news and information for the city. But a voice … Continue reading →