Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas returned to his law-school alma mater on Oct. 17, 2007, to give a keynote address at a day-long seminar on new-media law and blogging. Introduced by the school's dean, Maureen O'Rourke. In the 35-minute talk and Q&A, Moulitsas recounted his surprise rise to Internet prominence, and described his view of why Daily Kos is an example of new media. Watch the video stream by clicking on the carat below the frame.
Steve Clift explains his e-Democracy.org website -- citizen-to-citizen civic engagement -- in this Oct. 18, 2007, MGP interview conducted at the Online News Association convention in Toronto.
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Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas speaks on Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, at Boston University.
More than 20 winners of a total of $5 million in first-year grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation told their stories briefly as the Online News Association annual meeting got underway on Wednesday (Oct. 17) in Toronto.
Knight Foundation program officer Gary Kebbel moderated the session. The winners in the "Knight 21st Century News Challenge" competion. (EARLIER STORY) Kebbel said the foundation received more than 3,000 applications by the closing on Monday of a electronic-filing deadline for contenters for another at least $5 million in awards designed to encourage innovation in technology and platforms for journalism which connects cyberspace to physical place and advances communities.
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Pete Stidman was wrapping up his first year as a reporter for the community weekly, the Jamaica Plain Gazette, when he aligned with other neighborhood reporters. They've formed the Alliance for Community Jounalism with three goals for 2007: <li>Develop news websites in collaboration with outlets that foster greater interactivity and civic involvement within neighborhoods. <li>Create a citywide online resource (BostonBee.com) highlighting neighborhood and ethnic news websites and blogs. <li>Host the first in a series of nitty-gritty local-reporting workshops. The first collaborative website is http://www.jpgazette.com . The aggregation website, http://www.BostonBee.com , is entering development.
Stidman described the project at the New England News Forum event at the Boston Public Library on Thurs., May 17, 2007. Click on the carat on the left of the bar below the photo to launch a short video.
Pete Stidman, 617-620-1989
email: stidman@gmail.com
Newspaper-industry consultant Tim Porter says the real heros of journalism are the mainstream media news executives who are staying on to lead the hard work of change. Read his post: http://www.timporter.com/firstdraft/archives/000572.html
VillageSoup.com's editorial department vision as of May, 2005:
1) We cover the news, we do not make the news
2) We are the news source of record for our community
3) We celebrate the people and events of our community
4) We inform, educate and entertain our community
5) We engage the community -- they will think and they will contribute
6) We understand words alone are not the only way to tell a story
7) We publish to two different mediums -- use their strengths
8) We encourage witing articles based on our personal interest
9) We understand well done is better than well said
10) We are a team, to succeed we must work together.
The view a PDF of the VillageSoup.com community vision, CLICK HERE.
Richard Anderson grew up in a small Iowa town and married his high-school sweetheart. He made a small fortune as a textbook-for-hire entrepreneur. Now he and his son are pioneers at local web community and news. Most newspapers start websites. They've done the reverse -- by teaching businesses to make the web their main street. CLICK HERE TO WATCH ANDERSON EXPLAING THE MAIN STREET CONCEPT (Quicktime: 3.11 minutes).
Chris Grotke and Lise LePage left jobs at a computer museum in Boston and moved to Brattleboro, Vt., to start a website development business. After surveying the media landscape, they explain why they started iBrattleboro, a pioneering local web news community. (CLICK HERE TO LAUNCH QUICKTIME VIDEO -- 1.11 minutes)
Larry Bloch moved to Brattleboro, Vt., from New York in 1996. A retail-store owner, he is one of the key staffers at Radio Free Brattleboro, a "community licensed" radio station. Bloch describes the basis for RFP's broadcast authority, and why he enjoys being part of the station's work. CLICK HERE TO LAUNCH QUICKTIME VIDEO -- length 2:04 minutes)
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