Bill Densmore: New page: The mission of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy: **http://www.knightcomm.org/about/background/ *The Brattleboro Commons, a community-owned, no...

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New page: The mission of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy: **http://www.knightcomm.org/about/background/ *The Brattleboro Commons, a community-owned, no...

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The mission of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy:
**http://www.knightcomm.org/about/background/

*The Brattleboro Commons, a community-owned, non-profit
weekly for Brattleboro, Vt.: 
**http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/index.php 
**http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site02/page.php?id=8

*The Sandisfield Times, a monthly non-profit paper in southern Berkshire County: 
**http://www.sandisfieldtimes.org/

*Profile of the Atwater, Minn., Sunfish Gazette, a nonprofit weekly (folded after three years):
**http://www.mediagiraffe.org/mgprofiles/index.php?action=profile&id=328
**http://www.hutchinsonleader.com/news/business/atwater-newspaper-ceases-publication/article_52b0cd85-2027-53d1-85c7-09e7e5f5c650.html

*The Banyan Project, testing the operation of a co-operatively owned local news organization: 
**http://banyanproject.coop/ 
<big>Banyan Project founder Tom Stites, a Williams alum, will join us Feb. 5</big>

*Background on the Poynter Institute, a non-profit which owns Florida's largest daily, the St. Petersburg Times: 
**http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/22997/the-history-and-importance-of-nonprofit-ownership/

*Notes from a 2008 Journalism That Matters conference in Washington, D.C., about non-profit ownership: 
**http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-pros-and-cons-of-nonprofit-model

*The history of Citizen-Media Inc. and Frank Patterson: 
**http://www.williamstownbeat.org/cmi

*WilliamstownBeat.org -- prototype for a community information news hub: 
**http://www.williamstownbeat.org/

*LINKS TO VARIOUS Greylock News media stories: 
**http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/media_analysiscriticism/

*The January, 2010 community meeting: 
**http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2010/02/invitation-meeting-tues-730-pm-selectmens-meeting-room-williamstown-town-hall.html 
**(includes link to stream or download audio)

*BULLET POINT LIST FROM 2010 MEETING: 
**http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Newshare-williamstown 

*December, 2006, community meeting:
**http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Citizen_media
**http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Gcmc-agenda
**http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2006/12/greylockcitizen.html
**http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2006/08/citizen_media_c.html

*WHO ATTENDED THE DEC. 2006 MEETING? 
**http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Gcmc-attendees

*LINK TO AUDIO OF DEC. 2006 DISCUSSION: 
**http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2006/12/greylockcitizen.html

*Link to 2010 Bennington meeting: 
**http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2010/01/bennington-forum-draws-more-than-20-people-for-public-comment-on-community-information-needs.html
*Audio of the Bennington gathering: 
**http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/2010/01/audio-a-community-information-audit-in-bennington-vt.html

*The AGENDA from the Bennington gathering: 
**http://www.newshare.com/bennington/assessment-agenda.pdf 
(see particularly Page 2 and 3 -- could be used for 2014 session)

*The invitation to the Bennington event: 
**http://www.newshare.com/shires-invite.pdf 

*AUDIO: Of the Jan. 26, 2010 Bennington event at the library there:
**http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/2010/01/audio-a-community-information-audit-in-bennington-vt.html

===VAGUELY RELATED LINKS===

*http://www.newenglandnews.org/?q=Boston
*http://newshare.typepad.com/mediagiraffe/2006/02/audio_univ_of_m.html

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Bill Densmore: New page: The mission of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy: **http://www.knightcomm.org/about/background/ *The Brattleboro Commons, a community-owned, no...