MGP2006: Democracy & Independence -- Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World

GMP2006 alum Michael Stoll pursuing non-profit web "daily newspaper" project

Michael Stoll, MGP2006 alum, writes in an April 23 email post:

The Public Press www.public-press.org [2] is a concept for the next-generation daily newspaper. We're organizing a group of journalists, technologist and nonprofit managers to organize a new newsroom for the San Francisco Bay Area that would produce a Web site, daily print newspaper and collaborations with nonprofit news-gathering organizations locally and nationally. We've built a simple Drupal 6 site that we will be growing in the coming weeks and months, and we plan to start publishing on the Web using this platform.

[2] http://www.public-press.org

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Garfield illustrates the "viral" power of short-form video

MGP2006 alum Steve Garfield, the Boston-based videoblogging expert, conducted a test over the last few weeks illustrating the viral/distributive power of the Internet -- if you know (as Garfield does) how to package it. The lesson: Short-form videos that can be spread on the popular mass-market video web services will reach many more people than long-form on a single website. The example he used for his test: A 90-minute video shot of the New England News Forum's multimedia-newsroom presentation at the Feb. 9, 2008, New England Press Association annual meeting. Here's a link to see what he found:
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008/04/making-your-videos-spreadable.html

Fair Media Council's Clement alarmed about "Newsday" sale talk

MGP/JTM alumna Jaci Clement, who runs the Fair Media Council out of Briarcliffe College in Bethpage, N.Y., is sounding an alarm about talk the Long Island daily "Newsday" may be sold by Tribune Co. Read her concern at: http://mediasavvybyjaciclement.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-price-for-local-news.html