There are more than enough reasons to feel uncomfortable with what Journatic's been up to recently. There were the phony bylines. There's the question of covering a local community from afar. And, …
On July 4th, thinking about committing acts of community journalism
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to cover the news ourselves, that's probably a really good idea. And, according to a report from The Edward R. Murrow College of …
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Building a car-friendly news environment
A 2011 post by Steve Buttry has been gnawing a hole in my consciousness for a few weeks now. It's called "Newspapers don’t need new ideas; here are lots of ideas for new revenue streams." In the …
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Local news is not an island
On a recent edition of his Critical Path podcast, (right around the 52-minute mark) Horace Dediu notes an interesting fact hiding in plain sight in the most recent Apple keynote at WWDC: Apple is …
The forecast is hyperlocal
I walk for about an hour every day. Which means, if I don't want to get rain-soaked occasionally, I'd better know when the storms are coming. That involved a lot of guesswork and inference on my …