Printcasting, WiredJournalists, BeatBlogging, Spot.Us, OffTheBus, Copy Editors, Newspaper Jobs
Below, links to projects and news around some of the Knight News Challenge winners, their local news delivery projects, and other journalism items from this week:
News Challenge winner Dan Pacheco asks for feedback on the Printcasting (a project to “make it possible for anyone to create a local print newspaper, magazine or newsletter with local ads”) interface:
Does the drag-and-drop interface work for you? Let Dan know here.
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Fellow News Challenge winner Ryan Sholin (whose project Reporting On is “the backchannel for your beat”) reports that WiredJournalists.com and BeatBlogging.org are merging now exploring “cross-promotion” (per Ryan’s comment below).
Pat Thorton is taking BeatBlogging editorial reins from David Cohn, who has started working on his News Challenge project, Spot.us; find out how Cohn addresses his early Spot.us critics in this IdeaLab blog post.
BeatBlogging.org is part of News Challenge winner Jay Rosen’s distributed reporting project NewAssignment.net, and he talks about Beatblogging progress here.
(Recent buzz on Rosen has been around an OffTheBus experiment with Huffington Post; you can join the OffTheBus Special Ops team.)
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Earlier this week, New York Times writer Lawrences Downes bemoaned the lack of copy editor presence at the Newseum; journalist David Sullivan offered an answer.
And this list of current newspaper jobs was posted (and pointed to from Ryan Sholin’s Twitter (a microblogging service) stream).
Items to add? Leave a comment below.
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June 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Yikes! “Merging” is a bit of an overstatement – WiredJournalists and BeatBlogging are doing a little cross-promotion, helping each other out, trying to tap into the network of 2150+ journalists at WJ to find the unknown practitioners of what BB is all about.
But thanks for the mention!
June 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Thanks for the clarification, Ryan.
I’ve edited above–
June 20th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Thanks for linking in our UI video. Here’s a more functional, clickable mockup of an interface that relies on checking boxes and clicking buttons versus drag and drop:
http://futureforecast.com/test/Printcasting/Publisher.html
June 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Lets try that again: the button-based prototype.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hmm … something funny is going on with links in comments. I discovered that they’re there, but hidden. Drag your mouse over where a link should be in my comment and you should see it, and can then click.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Thanks, Dan. It’s good to have both here. We’ll check out the comment functionality.