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.

To view a recent panel discussion featuring some partners in the projects, click here.

To see a full list of the pilot news organizations and their content partners, click here.

View the press release.

The five news organizations 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:

Charlotte blogger discusses the success of his site and the Observer partnership.
DNN joins regional news partnership
Mountain Express discusses the partnerships in Asheville
An article from Poynter on partnerships with the The Seattle Times
Partnership brings hyper-local news, from Charlotte Observer
Ashvegas declines invite to participate in Citizen-Times ‘networked journalism’ project
Media Watch from Tucson Weekly
TheDailyTell
Editor & Publisher
A thread or two in the Mountain Express (Asheville, N.C.) forums discussing the project.
Cyber Journalist
Miami Herald
Philanthropy News Digest
Who’s it going to be? Local Asheville, N.C. blog Ashvegas discusses. Here’s another post from Ashvegas.
A blog in Asheville from behind-the-scenes on the Networked Journalism project.
Wild About AZ Cats.com joins TucsonCitizen as a content partner.
Outside.In asks if the networked journalism partnerships, particularly in Seattle, will work.

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