Citizen & Community News

Brian Steffens, Director of Communications

Paywall successes win converts at Cannes media conference

Google's Schmidt: Mobile the next trillion dollar business

SeattlePulp.com: urban lifestyle site targets 18- 49-year-olds

ComScore: iPad owns 97 percent of U.S. tablet traffic

News Corp: Tablets not "the web in your hand" but new paper stock

"While our colleagues on the business side deserve credit for pushing newsrooms to become more nimble in recent years, they have also consistently failed to imagine and then incubate a Craigslist, a Groupon, a Monster. com, let alone a Google or a Facebook. Nor are they any closer today than they were last year in fixing the broken business model of quality journalism. ... Free is indeed very expensive. But, what the prolonged and knee-jerk debate about free vs. paid inside our news organizations shows is that we still have what led us here in the first place: An imagination deficit. ... It is time we figured out how to make it [journalism] easier, more engaging and useful. -- Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor, read more in The Washington Post

Brian Steffens, Director of Communications

RJI's selection of links from around the web concerning ideas, experiments, research, solutions, innovations and commentary of interest to entrepreneurs working to connect journalism, communities and businesses.

Brian Steffens, Director of Communications

RJI's selection of links from around the web concerning ideas, experiments, research, solutions, innovations and commentary of interest to entrepreneurs working to connect journalism, communities and businesses.

Bill Densmore, 2008-2009 Fellow

Around the nation, entrepreneurs are testing methods for delivering news that matters to small communities -- without the legacy costs of newsprint, presses and delivery. In the small New England college town of Williamstown (pop. 7,500) a non-profit organization begun in the 1980s has revived and turned to testing the waters of a new approach. RJI consulting fellow Bill Densmore is among those helping.

Brian Steffens, Director of Communications

Did your workweek get away from you? Anxious or afraid you missed something you should know? RJI shares links to hot-topic web posts of interest to those immersed in journalism innovation and transition.

Joy Mayer, 2010-2011 Fellow

The American Society of News Editors has released its social media best practices for news organizations, researched and written by Politico's James Hohmann.

The pdf includes really interesting and helpful sample social media policies, and I highly recommend holding onto those as a resource. (The Guardian's policy specifically is one I really admire.)

There's a lot in this document that's good. It presents 10 key takeaways, and offers some really useful teachable moments and policy excerpts for each. I applaud ASNE for making this available, and I hope it starts some good conversations.

I also disagree with some of the findings. Here are my quick reactions to the paper's 10 key points