Jtm-dc-links

PRE-CONVENING LINKS

Journalism That Matters -- the DC Sessions:
What will happen when only the journalism is left?

This page is for links to pre-convening resources for participants in the Aug. 7-8, 2007 convening of Journalism That Matters at The George Washington University. You may add links by clicking on the "edit" tab above, typing in plain text at the bottom of the page, and then clicking the "save page" tab at the bottom. Do not worry about formatting; we'll fix it. If you wish to post a brief narrative description of a resource collection, with link, it would be more appropriate to put it on the LEARNING PAGE.

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NEWLY ADDED

• Lisa Snedeker: [1] Dramatic design changes needed in newspapers of future] (Media Life Magazine, Aug. 23, 2007]

CITIZEN JOURNALISM

• Mark Potts: Tips for how to avoid failure in the "hyperlocal" media market (Recovering Journalist, July 15, 2007)
• Dan Gillmor: Citizen Media: A Progress Report, (Center for Citizen Media Blog, July 15, 2007
• Jeff Howe: Did Assignment Zero Fail, Wired, July 16, 2007
• Jeff Howe: Gannett to Crowdsource the News (Wired, Nov. 3, 2006)
• Len Witt: A Q&A with Jay Rosen about success/failure of Assignment Zero (PJNet blog, July 19, 2007)

EQUIPPING CITIZEN JOURNALISTS

• KCNN: Training Citizen Journalists -- A link to profiles of seven U.S. efforts aimed at teaching/training citizen journalists, compiled and authored by the Knight Citizen News Network initiative at J-Lab.
• The Washington Post: 10 principles for web journalism / (PDF DOWNLOAD)
• Jay Rosen: "Aggregating Jay Rosen Open-Source Videos" PJNet.org edited series of video clips with Jay Rosen explaining open source, pro-am journalism via his NewAssignment.net project. Original video produced fall, 2006)

BUSINESS MODELS, OWNERSHIP AND FINANCES

Business Models

• Bill Densmore quoted in New York Times article about micropayments (Aug. 27, 2007)
• Discussion of free-paid content vs. Times Select
• Wally Bowen describes the business model of the Mountain Area Information Network
• Matt Marshall: NowPublic lands $10.6M in venture funding; 118,000 contributors (Venture Beat, July 29, 2007
• Coverage co-op: Corporation for Public Community Newspapers and an introduction by John Q. Murray in the Montana Journalism Review

Backfence

• Terry Heaton: The Important Lessons of BackFence's Closing (Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, July 8, 2007, cited by Dan Gillmor
• On the shutdown of BackFence: Paul Farhi writing at AJR . . . ClickZ . . . Peter Krasilovsky . . . Rafat Ali

Citizen journalism

• Steve Outing / SERIES: "The Business of Supporting Citizen Journalism" (Poynter.org, April, 2006)
• Doug Thompson: Citizen journalism need not be a business / (Capitol Hill Blue political blog), July 10, 2007
• Jonathan Weber: Citizen journalism works best when it has a story to tell, (TimesOnline, July 10, 2007) ALT LINK

Nonprofits

• St. Louis Platform pursues non-profit publishing approach (River Front Times, May, 9, 2007)
• Charles Lewis: The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism (PDF)(Shorenstein Center/Harvard)

Miscellaneous

• Bill Densmore: Sustaining democracy; sustaining journalism: A discussion (Report on MIT gathering, June 19, 2007)
• Fred Schiff / RESEARCH: "Trends emerging more clearly: Business models of news Web sites" (First Monday, Nov. 7, 2007)
• Jack Shafer: "The Newspaper of the Future" (Slate, July 3, 2007)
• Denny Wilkins / IDEA: "Journalist cover my hometown: I'll pay you $191/year" (Scholars & Rogues blog)
• Dave Morgan / IDEAS: "Widgets and the Idea of Citizen (Advertising) Networks" (Online Spin website, July 5, 2007)
• David Kaplan: Local online websites struggle with business model (PaidContent.org, Jan. 15, 2007)

Finances

• NEW: Matthew Creamer and Jeremy Mullman: "NY Times, Financial Times Face Bruising Battle With Murdoch's Wall Street Journal" (Advertising Age Magazine, August 6, 2007)
• Robert Reid: "Are Profits Killing Newspapers?" (Spike Magazine, Univ. of Illlinois, 2000)

Ownership

• NEW: ::Wikipedia article on co-ops
• Jim Shaffer/Geneva Overholser et al.: Notes for JTM-Memphis Sessions on ownership, January, 2007
• Chris Daly: "Newspapers Need a New Kind of Owner: The Public" (Chris Daly's Blog, May 24, 2007)
• Paul Bass: "About the Online Journalism Project" (New Haven Independent, May, 2007)
• Luke Eric Peterson: "Horror: Here Comes the State-funded Newspaper" (Embassy, March 1, 2006)

OVERVIEWS, STUDIES

• RESEARCH: Pew Center: Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations (The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press; August 9, 2007)

• Esther Thorsen et al.: Study: Investing in newsrooms is good for business (Univ. of Missouri, April 2007)
• Geneva Overholser: "On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change" (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands)
• Leonard Witt: "Constructing an Open Source Framework for Reinventing Journalism" (First Monday)
• Merrill Brown: "Abandoning the News" (Carnegie Reporter)
• Rachelle Goh: "Mainstream Media Meets Citizen Journalism: In Search of a New Model" Tufts Univ. thesis, May 2007
• Jay Rosen: "Web Users Open the Gates" (Washingtonpost.com)

OTHER ARTICLES AND OPINIONS

• Jeff Howe: Backgrounder on Gannett strategy to make web the primary platform (Wired Online; July 30, 2007)

• Tom Grubuisch: Back-of-envelope numbers: Why hyperlocal sites can, and should, succeed (Online Journalism Review, July 19, 2007)

• John Q. Murray -- coverage co-op: Corporation for Public Community Newspapers and an introduction in the Montana Journalism Review

• [2] Tools from the Disruption Group. Includes Disruption Scorecard spreadsheet and Disruption Brainstorm Tool.
• Tom Warhover: Building the newspaper from scratch The Missourian, July 7, 2007
• NEW addition here, but online for a while – Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project

Change

• [3] Tools from the Disruption Group. Includes Disruption Scorecard spreadsheet and Disruption Brainstorm Tool.
• NEW addition here, but online for a while – Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project
• Dan Gillmor: "Journalism isn't dying, it's reviving" (SFChronicle)
• Michele McLellan/Tim Porter: "News, Improved: Learning to Change" [excerpted from the book)

Community

• Clyde Bentley: "Join the Community Gathering at MyFoxSTL" (Missourian, June 9, 2007)
• Milverton Wallace: "The new Corinthians: How the Web is socialising journalism" (Oct. 2006) | (Gillmor comments)

Politics

• Rod Boshart / The [Cedar Rapids, Iowa] Gazette: Political blogs charting new forms of accountability (Iowa Caucuses Online, July 6, 2007)

Miscellaneous

• Al Gore: "We the People Must Save Our Constitution" (EXCERPT) (Constitution Hall, Jan. 16, 2006)
• David Zeeck: "ASNE President's Speech" FULL / EXCERPT, March 27, 2007
• Meredith McCulloch: "Civics Lesson: Ending cynicism starts in the classroom" (JTM2007 wiki)
• Rory O'Connor, Newstrust: "Can Citizen Journalism Work?" (Guardian Unlimited blog, July 5, 2007)
• Jen McClure: "The Paper & the Public: The Evolving Relationship between the Public & the Press in America -- From Public Journalism to Citizen Journalism"

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-resources