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| <h4> In a pre-event registration survey, we asked participants: | | <h4> In a pre-event registration survey, we asked participants: |
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| What aspect of local online news and community building have you succeeded at sufficiently to feel you could discuss it with your peers at JTM-Minnesota? Is there other relevant expertise, background or success you would you be willing to share with fellow participants? How can we
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| | participants or experts that will allow you to be more successful in your |
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| | local online news community building efforts. You may suggest speakers or |
| | | experts we should invite. Are these matters a professional and business |
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| *I would be happy to discuss with other attendees being one of the first
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| citizen journalism sites to launch, growing traffic, growing registered
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| user count, working with advertising and marketing departments and more.
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| Well... we were extraordinarily successful. Among our accomplishments:
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| * Removal from office of three members of our city commission who by many accounts unreasonably stood in the way of change, including the mayor and a very powerful 18-year veteran of the commission;
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| * Restoration of reasonable zoning regulations to allow more downtown commercial development.
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| * Master planning of two separate sections of town;
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| * Design of a new park and community-built playground; persuading city to spend nearly $1 million on it; helped raise approximately $170,000 to help fund the playground;
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| * Persuading city to expand the number of available liquor licenses by creating a new class of ""bistro"" licenses;
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| * Persuading city to encourage more outdoor cafes by relaxing the zoning regulations governing them;
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| * Encouraging progressive citizens to volunteer for important city advisory boards.
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| *So... We helped give voice to the progressive point of view, with genuine
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| accomplishments. The website, by the way, is www.bham"
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| *Starting something like Minnov8 with nothing but a vision, some server
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| space and a free Wordpress instance. It's not the technology, it's the
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| vision and the energy that drives momentum.
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| *I agree with Chris Anderson and his "long tail" analysis that states daily
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| or monthly hit counts are not what this is about. If we are in it for the
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| long term, then the site becomes a store house of information about the
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| area, links that come in handy far into the future, and possibly from time
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| to time it provides something that turns into the received wisdom on an
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| issue. That is fun, when people start repeating something from my site
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| and don't know where it came from. And that is really ok.
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| *I think Patchwork Nation can be used by others to explore their home towns
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| and regions.
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| *I can assist in all levels of expertise for those interested in
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| effectively reaching the public.
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| *I founded the Media Bloggers Association which is the largest association of bloggers in the world. My knowledge of the web is very basic.
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| - Development of software to integrate the operations and drive down costs
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| - Finding a sustainable business/financial model
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| - Unifying community residents and advertisers efficiently and involving them directly in writing and producing the paper
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| *We have created a community website and a weekly alternative paper that
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| are fabulous, and about 75 percent community-driven (submitted content). I
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| can tell you how we did that. We are a reverse publishing, for profit
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| business model. We have 110 contributors from 27 communities.
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| *I'll be presenting on findings of research related to citizen journalism.
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| "I'm interested in sharing our experience with real-time crime reporting.
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| Our daily ""CD Scanner"" feature provides readers with crimes in the
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| neighborhood as we hear them on the police scanner. Each entry is
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| individually mapped and searchable through tags over time.
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| *The scanner reports have been the major driver behind the growth of our
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| site, and serves as the glue that keeps people coming back multiple times
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| a day to see what's going on.
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| *http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/liveblogentries
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| *http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/liveblogentries/map"
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| *I could discuss the key steps to getting a substantial news site off the
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| ground. It took us months to work through various questions about content,
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| business plan and technical setup. Our experience could help others do
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| this much faster.
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| *I've developed several successful community building sites, and am
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| currently involved in further promotion of those sites, in addition to
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| building sites for others. One of the projects I am currently involved in
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| is a highly interactive web site for a community access (PEG) television
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| station in California.
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| *I'm in my second year of serious blogging. I really like the
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| conversations I get in my comments section about practical local issues:
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| school bond votes, local political campaigns, rural economic development,
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| etc. Many people are still shy about leaving their names, but good
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| conversation still takes place.
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| *I've tried to use my experience as a high school English/speech teacher
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| and debate coach to encourage my readers to engage in pasionate yet civil
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| public discourse. I've emphasized to readers and commenters the importance
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| of interacting as if we were face to face with neighbors, not taking the
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| all-too-common potshots that characterize many blogs and forums."
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| We are just getting started, but we have some experience in providing
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| reports on major government activities and agencies in ways that have
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| proven popular to our readers. We have some background in reporting on
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| government agencies that might be interesting to people tackling "large"
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| concepts or institutions. These things are more a point of view than a
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| set strategy or methodology, but we could talk about those issues
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| informally.
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| *Given the generally limited resources, I've succeeded in keeping an
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| office open since the fall of 2004. The site, which depends on local
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| members for a significant part of its content and even news, is now making
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| money not only from memberships (commercial and personal) but from a
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| combination of banner advertising and video advertising sources.
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| *I am planning to present a video that suggests that one of the key
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| elements to the success is an attitude of putting the community first. One
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| aspect is the elegant approach to selling advertising that uses an auction
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| approach, not to set the price, but the delivery of ads. This approach to
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| pricing advertising is suitable only for the Internet as the incremental
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| costs of adding in an advertiser into a rotation is virtually nil."
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| *Comfortable discussing technology including RSS and RSS reading software.
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| Willing to share expertise in building blogs for different groups and
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| configuring Wordpress.
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| *Use of video of government meetings on sites: I don't know that I would
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| say I have special expertise, but I do have some thoughts about it. Some
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| of the cities around Newburgh post on the municipal sites their entire
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| meetings, in long chunks. Others broadcast their meetings on Public
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| Access, as the City of Newburgh does. What then becomes the purpose of an
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| independent site to run video of meetings or excerpts of meetings? The
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| web offers many advantages to television news, as formatting is not
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| tightly time-determined and thus only the most sensational highlights are
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| picked up. Recently a section of a meeting I'd videotaped was included in
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| the regional local paper and picked up on the regional cable news.
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| *The technical end and general administration, but really all aspects of
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| building and maintaining a community news site.
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| *Can also speak to design/development for small business, ""buy local""
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| initiatives, and NGOs which I would like to see taking more advantage of
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| open source applications and the whole open source/social
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| networking/cluetrain concept--marketing and maintaining an online presence
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| that you understand as having a relational, social dimension."
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| *I created a nonprofit newsletter from scratch in 1990 which reached the
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| powerful health care industry in Oregon and subsequently lost my position
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| because I my investigational articles threatened their status
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| In college, I ran the largest national student newsmagazine called
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| Current. We worked with student journalists across the country to produce
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| a pan-collegiate quarterly publication showcasing work from some of the
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| nation's top college journalists, artists, and photojournalists. For the
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| last two years, I've been steeped in social media, working for a start-up
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| in the space and now at YouTube.
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| *Integrating an existing print publication with a web presence - content
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| sharing and joint income generation.
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| We were recognized in the Batten Awards a few years back for our use of
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| blogs for candidate debates.
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| *I feel I can definitely speak to the way the internet has affected the
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| television news market and helped the non-profit world. It's been a unique
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| change that's certainly gained momentum in the last five years and I have
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| seen firsthand how the internet has changed both professions in their way
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| of communicating with their audiences.
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| *I am only at the 'start-up' phrase in my efforts in providing online
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| community news for the deaf, but I understand very well the intense
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| challenges involved in attempting to use video at a level that provides
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| equitable access to creating citizen media as compared to written english
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| news sites. I also am experienced with the deaf community, a 'special
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| interest' community group which have very different needs and challenges
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| in online news community building than a 'general population' local
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| community. I am open to discussing this with others, but would need a sign
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| language interpreter to help communicate.
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| *I haven't done much local online news/community building, but I have been
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| reasonably successful in my minor niche of news coverage on a national
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| level. Although monetarily the success doesn't appear to be as notable,
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| the fact that I went from blogging 2 1/2 years ago on my issue in relative
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| obscurity to testifying before Congress last December on it is a testament
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| to the power and range of the Internet.
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| *I can talk about my experiences with both The UpTake and Minnesota
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| Stories, video-based community sites which have been successful at
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| becoming part of the alt-media in the Twin Cities.
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| *Being taken seriously by public agencies, movers and shakers, community
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| leaders
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| -Posting frequently
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| -Uncovering sources of information
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| -Adding other site areas to generate more traffic, better serve your readers, be more appealing to advertisers
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| *I've had some limited success at taking an issue and getting it into the
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| mainstream news. I also work regularly with wordpress as tool to promote
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| online news and community building.
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| *Hyper-localism.
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| Working with elected officials and local media.
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| Using open source software."
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| *I have no experience or expertise to share at this time.
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| "Blogging in rural/minor media markets
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| Metrics for measuring and discussing ""Long-tail"" market niches"
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| *1994: Started (and still own) the web's oldest political news web site (Capitol Hill Blue)
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| *2004: Started a community-based web site covering news and events in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Floyd, VA"
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| *Open access legislation - FOIA, local data practices laws
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| Tools to access government information - local, state, federal
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| Local points of access, e.g. depository libraries"
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| My background is in addressing niche content.
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| I would love to discuss my experiences with Forward Forum and my efforts
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| to engage the University of Wisconsin student community with the larger
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| activist core of Madison.
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| *Blogging as well a using and establishing newsrooms for media outlets.
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| I would like to discuss our Representative Journalism project in
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| Northfield, MN.
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