Community

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/
    

Banyan Project founder Tom Stites, a Williams alum, will join us Feb. 5

• 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