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:

• The Seattle Times (Download their press release)
• West Seattle Blog and White Center Now
• Rainier Valley Post
• Capitol Hill Seattle Blog
• Seattle Local Health Guide
• Next Door Media, which includes:
• My Ballard
• Phinney Wood
• Queen Anne View
• Magnolia Voice and
• Freemont Universe
• The Miami Herald
• Key Biscayne Times
• Coral Gables
• West Kendall Today
• South Miami News
• The Charlotte Observer
• DavidsonNews.net
• Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times
• The Southern Highland Reader
• The Artful Parent
• AskAsheville
• Montford.org
• The Blue Banner
• TucsonCitizen.com, a newspaper that has become a Web-only citizen journalism outlet.
• Wild About AZ Cats.com
• UA Sports

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:

• 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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