Feedback from the community guided the conversation last month at Alki Arts Center in Seattle. RJI and Journalism that Matters hosted a discussion with a mix of Pacific Northwest news and information experts. The Pacific Northwest (PNW), in particular the Seattle area, has established a track record of innovative collaboration and experimentation. Many news innovators across the nation are watching and taking notes from these early experiments.
The goal of this community forum was to learn more about how content producers are creating their work, and bringing their content products to market in the new media landscape. What kinds of things fuel their business, serve their audiences and examples of the tools and social channels participants find most useful in their day to day work?
The content has been edited down from 150 minutes, as posted here the clip runs about 15 minutes. This edited piece serves up key points that span a range of perspectives and subject matter expertise from the folks in the room.
The organizing question framed up around how an online community might best serve busy news entrepreneurs, increase efficiency and inspire great work. The themes that emerged around collaboration, measurement, social channels, distribution and the value of a shared space for mutually beneficial online conversation provided substantive ideas, a variety of methods and useful observations. Check out the clip below to get the full story. The feedback offered helps inform the Journalism Accelerator utility that will launch in early 2011.
The folks who contributed their point of view included:
- Sheetal Agarwal; PhD student UW
- Jacob Caggiano; WA News Council
http://wanewscouncil.org - Mike Fancher; Former Seattle Times Editor & 2008-2009 RJI Fellow
- Brian Glanz; Technologist
http://www.journalismthatmatters.org - John Hamer; WA News Council
http://wanewscouncil.org - Rita Hibbard; Investigate West
http://invw.org - Peggy Holman; Co-founder JTM & Engaging Emergence
http://peggyholman.com - David Messerschmidt; Public Affairs Media Group
- Cate Montana; JTM Outreach & Information Coordinator
http://www.journalismthatmatters.org - Jessica Partnow; Common Language Project UW
http://clpmag.org - Karen Rathe; Dept. of Communication UW & former Seattle Times journalist
http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/rathe.html - Matt Rosenberg; Public Eye NW
http://publiceyenorthwest.org - Scott Schaffer; Editor B-Town Blog
http://www.b-townblog.com - Stephen Silha; JTM Co-Founder, Big Joy
http://www.bigjoy.org/news/ - Lisa Skube; RJI Fellow
- Andrew Sorkin; New Hive (coming soon)
- John Stang; Features & Investigative Reporting
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