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Journalism That Matters -- the DC Sessions:
What will happen when only the journalism is left?

More about the Journalism That Matters collaborative

In less than two years, among other things, JTM’s collaborators have:

• Helped establish and lead a multi-media reporting seminar for mid-career journalists.
• Started a <a href="http://bcs.blogs.com/rejournalism/" target="_blank">blog on the future of journalism </a>.
• Assisted <a href="http://www.commonlanguageproject.net/" target="_blank">an international/local news service</a> focusing on “positive, inclusive and humane reporting of stories ignored by mainstream media”.
• Developed a template for a New Newsroom serving today’s “new news ecology”.
• Written a business plan for locally owned new media.
• Started new university and middle-school curricula on journalism, including working with citizen journalists.
• Co-conceived a satellite community newsroom in a coffeeshop in Oakland, Calif., run by a legacy newspaper.
• Offered new insights and projects initiated by industry leaders & shared with readers in columns and blogs
• Spurred and fostered management shifts including re-examination of beat systems and reporting styles
• Held training seminars for citizen journalists in Michigan, Missouri, Massachusetts and California.