Bloggers are Bringing the Local News
Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation
As local news coverage shrinks, bloggers are bringing communities the news and information they need.
But what are the needs of bloggers covering local communities?
- Sustainability models
- Content
- Digital training
- A blogger network
- Designing skills
- Legal support
These were the most common answers to that question at a meeting organized last week by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and its Knight Digital Media Center. The goal of the meeting was to share ideas, discuss common problems and opportunities, and explore ways to collaborate.
By the end of the meeting a blogger network was formed. Everyone agreed to share content, cross-link to each other and start meeting once a month. A Google group was also created to keep the conversation going.
The Knight Digital Media Center started thinking of different ways to support local community bloggers.
If you are a hyper-local blogger you can find useful resources here:
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
And don't forget to join Placeblogger
July 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
We are moving towards posting more than just news and opinions we are posting conversations. We are moving from reporting to hosting conversations. We are stuck between a community around a topic or feedback around news report. Little development in the conversation/debate space.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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July 15th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Could there be some information on documents from the meeting, or where the Google Group actually is?
July 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
For more information about the meeting please contact: Paul Grabowicz,
Assistant Dean, Director of the New Media Program at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Phone: 510.642.3310
July 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
You can also read another post about the meeting here: http://tinyurl.com/lpr5c7