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=Radio pod-sharing, community-media center subject of GCMC meeting=
=<u>[https://greylocknews.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/with-closure READ A BLOG STORY ABOUT THIS MEETING]=


WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Citizen-run radio stations in the Berkshires and southwestern Vermont may soon begin trading audio files over the Internet to enhance their programming, and Southern Vermont College is considering filing a grant application to establish a regional community media center, a group was told on Wednesday night. A total of 21 people gathered for a meeting of the fledgling Greylock Citizens Media Collaborative (GCMC) at the Williamstown Public library.  
=[http://newshare.com/greylocknews/greylock-cmc-02-05-14.mp3 LISTEN TO AUDIO OF THIS MEETING]=
=[http://willinet.org/content/dialogue-information-needs-north-berkshire-community LINK BROKEN -- WATCH VIDEO OF THE MEETING]=
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An ad-hoc group of citizens explored ways to deepen and extend news and community information in the Berkshires and southwestern Vermont at its second meeting Wed., Dec. 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Milne Public Library. The Greylock Citizen Media Collaborative convened at the suggestion of Williamstown resident Bill Densmore.


==[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/gcmc-attendees WHO ATTENDED?]==
====<b>LOOKING FOR NOTES OF A 2006 MEETING OF GCMC -- go [http://74.200.89.183/wiki/index.php/Citizen_media1 HERE.]</b>====


==Couldn't attend? go to [http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2006/12/greylockcitizen.html LINK TO STORY AND AUDIO PODCAST OF DEC. 6 MEETING] and listen.==
=Greylock Citizen/Media Collaborative / 2014=  
<small>URL for this page: http://www.greylocknews.org</small>
[[Image:Final-edition.jpg|450px|thumb|right|[http://www.berkshireeagle.com//northadamstranscriptfinaledition VIEW FINAL EDITION]]]
====Are you disturbed that our North Berkshire region has abruptly lost its two print news media in mid-January, <i>The Transcript</i> and <i>The Advocate?</i> If so, please come to a public forum to discuss what our Berkshire community might do about it.====


==Link to [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/gcmc-agenda BULLET-POINT NOTES] of Dec. 6 meeting==
<h3>JOIN US FOR A <U>FREE, PUBLIC</U>:</h3>


==[http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2006/11/citizenmedia_co.html EARLIER STORY about Dec. 6 meeting]==
<h2><i>Dialogue on the Information Needs of the North Berkshire Community</i></h2>
===The Williams Inn, Williamstown (new location)<br>Wed., Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.===
<big>A public, circle-round discussion, followed by light refreshments. (Discussions may continue after 8 p.m. at the Williams Inn tavern.)</big>
<br>


==Comments? Post at [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Gcmc-comments COMMENT-POSTING PAGE]==
<h2>Who's participated?</h2>
*Find out who attended [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Community-roster <b>HERE.</b>]
<br>


==EARLIER INFORMATION:==
<h2>SOME QUESTIONS WE'LL CONSIDER:</H2>


===Report of Greylock Citizen/Media Collaborative to meet Aug. 2, 6:30 p.m. at Williamstown library===
*Does our local Berkshires community need an independent, local news and opinion media source, whether print media, online, or both? Can <i>The Berkshire Eagle</i> or <i>iBerkshires</i> -- or Facebook -- meet that need?


Seventeen people attended a first brainstorming meeting of the Greylock Region Citizen/Media
*If we do need such a source, what options exist for forming one? Suggestions:
Collaborative on Wed., Aug. 2, in the large back meeting room of the Williamstown Public Library. Among co-convenors were Wendy Penner,Gail Burns, Bernadette Archibald, Gail Burns, Debby Dane, Linda Carman, Ed Cating and Fred Daly.
**A non-profit organization
**Co-operative ownership (like a food co-op)?
**A locally owned for-profit initiative or partnership (like <i>iBerkshires</i> or <i>Hill Country Observer?</i>
**Print, online, or both?


==[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/gcmc-meet Link to Aug. 2 meeting story]==
*How would such an enterprise be funded? Advertising? Subscriptions? Donations?


===Why the need for action now?===
*Who would the target audiences be?


The shrinking commitment to local news of our existing commercial media in
<h2>Contacts:</h2>
northern Berkshire County calls us to consider supplements. We just completed
*Tela Zasloff, jzasloff@adelphia.net
an amazing conference of The Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst where we
*Harry Montgomery, harry_montgomery@hotmail.com
learned about initiatives around the northeast, in Minneapolis, the Rockies and
*Bill Densmore, facilitator, wpdensmore@gmail.com
elsewhere to create local online news communities -- many of them
<br>
citizen-driven, not-for-profits.


See for example this [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_343.shtml partial national list of local online news sites.]
==PRE-CONVENING RESOURCES==
 
[[Image:KnightReport cover2.jpg|100px|thumb|left|[http://www.knightcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Informing_Communities_Sustaining_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Age.pdf DOWNLOAD PDF]]]
This "citizen-media" movement is gaining stream around the nation as technical
*READING: [http://www.knightcomm.org/read-the-report-and-comment/ Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age." The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities,] (2009) <SMALL>Report copies available for free at the Milne Public Library</small>
tools for websites get simpler, advertisers realize the power and reach of the
*RECOMMENDATIONS: [http://newshare.com/greylocknews/community-knight.pdf Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy]
online medium, more and more people turn to the web as a major news source, and
*QUESTIONS: [http://newshare.com/greylocknews/community-healthy.pdf Are we living in an 'information healthy' community?]
the nation's news and broadcast chains are ever-more squeezed. What might be
*LINKS: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Community1 Readings, audio, articles and notes from 2006 and 2010 meetings in Williamstown and Bennington]
possible in our Greylock region?
 
=== A local news "blog"? ===
 
One option is to establish a local news "blog" -- [http://www.greylocknews.org greylocknews.org] -- which would be authored and edited largely by volunteers and which might solicit
advertisers and sponsors. It would be rigorously non-partisan, factual,
independent and non profit.
 
To help us consider this, or any other, idea, we hope to invite the operator(s)
of another online local news community in New England to talk about what they
do.
 
In addition, we'll have an Internet connection and we'll take a 15-minute tour
of some of the other sites already in operation around the country.
 
=== "The Daily Grind" -- local news site operators talk about their work ===
 
Optionally, starting at 5:15 p.m. for those who are interested to come early,
we'll screen a video of one of the sessions from the Media Giraffe Conference
in which five local online news operators describe their "daily grind." What
exactly do they do and how do they do it -- and why?
 
If you can watch QuickTime downloads on your computer, you can view it anytime
via the University Channel at Princeton University. It's a July 1, 2006 panel discuss from Saturday, July 1, at UMass Amherst of five citizen journalists talking about their "daily grind" (daily routine). It took place at the first summit conference of [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/ The Media Giraffe Project] at UMass Amherst. [http://psg2.princeton.edu/mediagiraffe/MGP2006_070106_daily_grind.mov (CLICK HERE] to start QuickTime download).  
 
The library has reserved the room for us; we'll figure out something vs.
refreshments. We may even offer light sandwiches and soda/juice/water drinks
for folks who arrive for the 5:15 p.m. screening and sit through the dinner
hour.
 
=== [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Citizen_media_agenda Draft AGENDA] ===
 
==CO-CONVENERS==
 
''All affiliations are for identication purposes only and do not imply endorsement or knowledge of the named organization.''
 
#Bernadette Archibald, former executive director, Williamstown Chamber of Commerce
#Edward Cating, WilliNet, artist
#Fred Daly, editor, Hill Country Observer
 
==WHO ATTENDED?==
 
Here's an alpha list of attendees at the Aug. 2 meeting.
 
#Jamie Bairstow, Willinet volunteer municipal videographer
#Krystle Barhaghi, WCFM, Williams College radio
#Gail Burns, co-director, Starlight Stage Company, GreylockNews.com blogger
#Linda Carman, former reporter, The Advocate Newsweekly
#Deb Dane, executive director, WilliNet
#Bill Densmore, consultant, Densmore Associates
#Harris Elder, emeritus professor of English/Broadcast, MCLA, WJJW representative
#Wes Flinn, Assistant Professor of Music, MCLA; Blogger and freelance writer
#Juliana Haubrich, events coordinator, WRLF & Images Cinema
#Janet Keep, community and church activist
#Liz Kodela, graphic artist
#Wendy Penner
#Greg Roach, Chef, Helen's Place; Freelance writer and blogger
#Anne Skinner, president, Williamstown League of Women Voters
#Christine Stuart, editor CTNewsjunkie.com
#Margie Ware, Candidate for State Senate, Berkshire Hampshire Franklin District
#Sally White, writer, MGRHS school board
 
==EXPRESSING INTEREST BUT UNABLE TO ATTEND==
#Alex Brooks, writer, publisher, the Eastwick Press
#Edward Epping, professor, Williams College
#Daniel Gendron, Member of the Affordable Housing Committee, former selectman
#Sherwood Guernsey, attorney, former state representative
#Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, professor, Simons Rock College
#Jeff Stripp, Treeage Software

Latest revision as of 00:59, 17 November 2025

READ A BLOG STORY ABOUT THIS MEETING

LISTEN TO AUDIO OF THIS MEETING

LINK BROKEN -- WATCH VIDEO OF THE MEETING


LOOKING FOR NOTES OF A 2006 MEETING OF GCMC -- go HERE.

Greylock Citizen/Media Collaborative / 2014

URL for this page: http://www.greylocknews.org

VIEW FINAL EDITION

Are you disturbed that our North Berkshire region has abruptly lost its two print news media in mid-January, The Transcript and The Advocate? If so, please come to a public forum to discuss what our Berkshire community might do about it.

JOIN US FOR A FREE, PUBLIC:

Dialogue on the Information Needs of the North Berkshire Community

The Williams Inn, Williamstown (new location)
Wed., Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

A public, circle-round discussion, followed by light refreshments. (Discussions may continue after 8 p.m. at the Williams Inn tavern.)

Who's participated?

  • Find out who attended HERE.


SOME QUESTIONS WE'LL CONSIDER:

  • Does our local Berkshires community need an independent, local news and opinion media source, whether print media, online, or both? Can The Berkshire Eagle or iBerkshires -- or Facebook -- meet that need?
  • If we do need such a source, what options exist for forming one? Suggestions:
    • A non-profit organization
    • Co-operative ownership (like a food co-op)?
    • A locally owned for-profit initiative or partnership (like iBerkshires or Hill Country Observer?
    • Print, online, or both?
  • How would such an enterprise be funded? Advertising? Subscriptions? Donations?
  • Who would the target audiences be?

Contacts:

  • Tela Zasloff, jzasloff@adelphia.net
  • Harry Montgomery, harry_montgomery@hotmail.com
  • Bill Densmore, facilitator, wpdensmore@gmail.com


PRE-CONVENING RESOURCES

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