A Q&A with Marc Cooper, the digital news director at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He founded Neon Tommy, a student-run news site that provides a hands-on news reporting and writing experience while serving up a range of web-only content.
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No One Way to View Hyperlocal News Sites
Posted by Ari Pinkus on Oct. 27, 2011 in Spotted
J-Lab Project Manager, Ari Pinkus, attended this week’s Street Fight Summit 2011 in New York, learning that hyperlocal news is a complex and diverse field. Here’s her report.
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Answers for the Kinds of Questions Hyperlocal News Sites Have
Posted by Ben Ilfeld on Jun. 30, 2011 in Spotted
The Sacramento Press news site got a new metrics dashboard, helping the COO get a better handle on his readers and contributors. As he learned, many of his assumptions about site use were wrong.
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New Stewardship Model for Journalism
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Apr. 27, 2011 in Spotted
The merger of VTDigger.org and the Vermont Journalism Trust has led to $88,000 in support in just five months — and caused the industry to take note of an emerging stewardship model.
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Underground Story Bubbles Up in Pittsburgh Newsroom
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Mar. 31, 2011 in Spotted
With funding from J-Lab’s Networked Journalism initiative, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editors set about to rethink, alongside others, how the organization could cover Marcellus Shale, a massive topic to their region.
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Retha Hill Augments Reality
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Mar. 21, 2011 in Spotted
After winning a New Media Women Entrepreneur award, Retha Hill set about to build a Mobile Black History app that uses Augmented Reality to raise awareness of historic locations.
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Updates: New Voices Sites See Strong Content and Bottom Line Growth
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Feb. 8, 2011 in Spotted
Stories about financial success and strong content top the latest news from our New Voices grantees, including Grosse Pointe Today, Oregon Arts Watch, Madison Commons and others.
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TucsonCitizen.com’s Server Meltsdown in Wake of Mass Shooting
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Jan. 11, 2011 in Spotted
As news of the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson coursed through the web, TucsonCitizen.com quickly became hobbled after breaking the news. Editor Mark Evans explains what happened next.
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Glenn Burkins: Unabashedly Courting African-American News Consumers
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Jan. 4, 2011 in Spotted
Glenn Burking runs two community news sites specifically designed to reach African-American readers in Charlotte. The former newspaper editor and reporter’s Charlotte news sites are attracting readers and advertisers alike.
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Sites Begin Using Press+ to Ask Readers for Support
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Dec. 10, 2010 in Spotted
Press+ is offering publishers of today’s news sites a chance to begin collecting for their content without setting up a pay wall. Their solution is designed to encourage a reader to pay after consuming a set amount of content.
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