PJNet

Tim Porter at First Draft, posts his article from the spring, 2006 edition of the Nieman Reports.
Item number 6:
To borrow a phrase from Hodding Carter, don’t cover the community, be the community.

This from AdAge:
Although the number of consumers watching video online routinely is low, that number is growing, and those consumers are engaged with video advertising, according to a new study by the Online Publishers Association and Frank N. Magid Associates.
Video news clips are the biggest draw. Some 27% of viewers watch news clips [...]

The Atlanta Journal Constitution launched its: Saving Southern Food series.
It has participation from readers and chefs, plus a blog. But I find the net presence a little pedestrian. It is the kind of subject that I think would inspire lots more interaction if the AJC were a little more aggressive.
The site led me to [...]

The US Department of State’s e-Journal has a full report on new trends in the media:
Here are the topics covered, written by high powered names like Dan Gillmor :
Emerging Media Reshape Global Society
Newspapers Recreate Their Medium
How Community Newspapers Adapt to New Technology

Broadcasters Getting Online, Staying On Air

Public Libraries in the Internet [...]

This from England’s Press Gazette:
The BBC’s impact on regional and local newspapers is “frightening” and a “major concern,” according to media commentator Roy Greenslade.
…Greenslade said that the BBC’s investment in online journalism, with a department of more than 800 dedicated internet journalists, meant the broadcaster “is gradually in the process of creating electronic newspapers, offering [...]