Duke-newsroomcrowds

This is an afternoon session at the Duke Next Newsroom seminar in Durham, N.C. These notes are by Bill Densmore of a breakout called by John Keefe of WNYC radio in New York City. he's talking about "How can we harness the power of crowds in the newsroom?"

There were nine other people in the session and there's an audio podcast you can access from HERE.

Bronze is where people contribute individual works.

Silver is where people contribute to a project.

third example.

fourth example -- refueling planes.

Examples of crowdsourcing:

• Noticed three aircraft refueling -- the crowd figured out these plans were registered to shell companies, eventually linked by the Washington Post to the rendition controversy.

TPM Muckracker -- the U.S. attorneys resigning identified by the crowd.

Dan Barcomb senior editor at the N&O. examples: Came up with mascot names for the drought awareness campaign.

They also have a section on Sunday called cue. Candidates are criss crossing the state. If you have questions for the candidates, what are they. The've gotten a lot of feedback on that. They have asked the candidates questions from the people who submitted them. They asked the woman's question. "She was blown away. She said she just never felt so connected to the process."

Third example: Speed unlimited. There is no traffic enforcement.