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AUDIO: The national news collaborative: Urbanite? Newshare?

A breakout group at the Journalism-That Matters/Poynter Institute for Media Studies convening brainstorms a national news collaborative during a one-hour session.  Click on the black carat on the left of the bar below to launch an audio stream, or download an MP3 audio for offline listening. 

Participating in the discussion were: Lynn Bazelle; Ken Carpenter, journalism professor at Valencia [Fla.] Community College; Jay Young, free-lance investigative reporter from Altoona, Pa.; Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project at UMass-Amherst; Tracy Durkin of The Urbanite in Baltimore, Md.; Jackie Hai, a senior at UMass and editor of AmherstWire.com; and Sara Justicia Doll, of Primera Hora in San Juan, P.R.; Dori Maynard, founder/director of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; and Lou Ureneck, journalism department chair at Boston University.  (Photo, from left: Tracy Durkin and Jackie Hai.)   MORE PHOTOS OF PARTICIPANTS. 

AUDIO: Closing reflections and actions at JTM-Poynter

Listen to the one-minute closing reflections of more than 50 participants in the Journalism that Matters/Poynter convening, "New Roles for Journalists in the New News Ecology." The March 1-3, event drew more than 85 journalists, citizens, academics and researchers to the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Poynter Institute for Media Studies. In this audio excerpt from the closing day, participants describe what they learned from the gathering and the actions they intend to take as a result.  Click on the black carat on the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio, or download an MP3 audio for offline listening. (48 minutes, 27 seconds; File Size: 11.63 MB)