The Networked Journalism Project

Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Five news organizations around the country have each agreed to work with at least five hyperlocal news sites or producers in their communities in a Networked Journalism pilot project to gather ideas and lessons for future content collaborations.

View the press release.

The pilot news organizations (and their content partners) are:

How it works:

The news organizations are beginning to reach out to prospective partner news sites in their communities.

J-Lab will assemble the lessons learned into an overall report on how such Networked Journalism collaborations might work.

Among the lessons to be sought are:

  • What are the attributes to look for in recruiting partners?
  • What kinds of partners do, or don’t, want to work with a mainstream news organization?
  • What kind of partner content is valuable enough for mainstream news outlets to give it an added voice or use it as a basis for enterprise reporting?
  • What are the opportunities to share content?
  • What other community sites asked to join the network?
  • How do you maintain a sense of “ownership” among the community partners while also gelling the collaboration as a “network?”
  • How do you measure success?

Some of the buzz:

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