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:
 

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•     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?

2010
 

•     The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
•     The Oregonian
•     KQED Public Radio
•     Lawrence Journal-World

2009
 

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•     The Seattle Times
•     The Miami Herald
•     The Charlotte Observer
•     Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times
•     TucsonCitizen.com
   

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• The Kansas Press Association heralds the Lawrence Journal-World's partnership.
• The Oregonian announces its five local pilot partners.
• Charlotte Observer launches the Charlotte News Alliance, aiming to cover their region with hyperlocal partners.
• 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.