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VIDEO: Star Tribune editor describes "experience paper"

On Sept. 15, 2005, the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore interviewed then-associate editor Nancy Barnes at the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the paper's involvement in a project lead by researchers at Northwestern University. The "Experience Paper" project sought to re-engineer the format and content of dalies to appeal to broader -- and particularly youth and ethnic -- reader groups. By 2007, Barnes had become the paper's editor. (TIME: 11 minutes)

AUDIO: Dave Mastio of BlogNetNews.com at Knight L.A. seminar

Dave Mastio's BlogNetNews.com helps aggregate local news blog feeds for regions throughout the United States for presentation on news and other websites. In this excerpt, Masio talks about his motivation for starting BlogNetNews.

Mastio was among panelists at a four-day seminar: "Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace," presented by the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Approximately 30 editorial writers attended. Click on the carat on the bar below to launch streaming video, or DOWNLOAD AN MP3 PODCAST. Duration:3 minutes, 46 seconds / File Size:904.49 KB

AUDIO: NewWest.net's Courtney Lowery at Knight event in L.A.

Courtney Lowery, editor-in-chief of NewWest.net, a Missoula, Mont.-based regional and local online news resource for the American Rockies, describes how she and co-founder Jonathan Weber have reached profitability doing quality jouranalism.

Lowery was among panelists at a four-day seminar: "Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace," presented by the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in
partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Approximately 30 editorial writers attended.

AUDIO: GulfCoastNews.com founder Keith Burton

GulfCoastNews.com founder Keith Burton describes the Biloxi, Miss., website's emergence as an award-winning resource for post-Katrina victims and rebuilding an explains how he sustains the operation during a panel discussion in Los Angeles on March 2, 2008.

Burton was among panelists at a four-day seminar: "Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace," presented by the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Approximately 30 editorial writers attended.