Jan Schaffer writes in Nieman Lab’s 2014 predictions for journalism series: “Let’s stop the handwringing about losses in legacy journalism and work on creating and growing the next acts in media.”
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Revisiting 10 of the Many Things I’ve Learned Since Abscam
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Dec. 13, 2013 in Articles | Survival Guide For Women Editors
With the release of the “American Hustle” movie about Abscam, I’ve been moved to remind myself of some takeways of my involvement in that FBI sting operation. Full disclosure: This originally appeared in the American Press Institute’s “Survival Guide For Women Editors.”
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In New Orleans, public radio, local startups, and more are teaming up for the news
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 11, 2013 in Articles | Nieman Lab
In New Orleans’ topsy-turvy world of journalism — where alliances shift, talent is raided, and a newspaper war is blossoming — WWNO public radio has, for the past year, steered a determined course. Informed by research and bolstered by a sense of opportunity, it is erecting, piece by piece, the components for an all-news format,
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Public Media Join Non-Profit Startups to Collaborate, Fill Local News Gap
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 11, 2013 in Articles | MediaShift
Public broadcasters have always done partnerships, but in the last year these and other public-media outlets have begun piecing together the infrastructure for local-news reports that will offer more than cutaways in “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.” As a result, they are airing more investigative and enterprise journalism than ever before.
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In New Jersey, a university teams up with local news organizations to collaborate for impact
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 10, 2013 in Articles | Nieman Lab
Montclair State’s Center for Cooperative Media is betting there are returns on getting newspapers, broadcasters, bloggers, and wire services all in the same building. The germ of the idea came at a 2011 meeting in Newark.
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In St. Louis, two news organizations are navigating the tricky path to a merger
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 9, 2013 in Articles | Nieman Lab
If all goes as hoped, in coming months St. Louis Public Radio (SLPR) and the St. Louis Beacon will formally merge their two newsrooms. It will be the first time a public radio station with a staff of journalists has combined its operations with another daily-news producing outlet.
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With a coming void in Oregon’s news ecosystem, public broadcasting’s trying to build a new kind of state wire
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 8, 2013 in Articles | Nieman Lab
Can Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), working with local newspapers, TV and radio stations, and bloggers, make a substantial state news report in the face of cutbacks elsewhere? In March 2013, OPB hired a former Associated Press reporter to undertake this ambitious vision.
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Pew’s Nonprofit Journalism Report: Few Surprises, Many More Questions
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jun. 11, 2013 in Articles | MediaShift
There are few surprises in the latest nonprofit journalism study by the Pew Research Center’s Project on Excellence in Journalism. There are still, however, many questions to be asked. And there is much merit in taking a deeper dive into discrete clusters of nonprofit news sites.
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A New Kind of Activist Journalism: When Finding Solutions are Part of Journalists’ Job, Too
Four years ago, UrbanMilwaukee.com zeroed in on South 2nd Street, a pocked roadway in the city’s Walker’s Point section that seemed “ripe for improvement,” said site co-founder David Reid.
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Journalism Schools as Startup Accelerators
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Dec. 19, 2012 in Articles | Nieman Lab
“The opportunities are wide open for connecting silos of information in communities, amplifying good stories that people want to know about and for leveraging resources so that the sum of the efforts is bigger than the individual contributions.”
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