AUDIO: InfoValet and the NPR opportunity -- in seven minutes

Could the InfoValet Service  help National Public Radio to create a news-sharing network that benefits its affiliates and the national programming service without disrupting donor relationships? Bill Densmore in director of the Information Valet Project at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute  at the Missouri School of Journalism. In this seven-minute excerpt of a recent discussion, Densmore explains InfoValet and how it might work witih NPR affiliates. Click on the carat of the bar below to launch streaming video, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.  (7.5 mins., 1.8 MB) 



You can also read a two-page backgrounder  about InfoValet, read what Editors' Weblog  and The Chicago Reader  have written, browse the resources resulting from the Dec. 3-5, 2008 "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy" summit at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, see who participated, and read one possible scenario for InfoValet at a major newspaper. Finally, there's an interview with a St. Louis radio talkmaster.