March 10th, 2008 by Leonard Witt
Things are moving forward for our Representative Journalism trial project in Northfield, Minnesota. First big news is a job opening. As you will see, it is a temporary, part-time gig, but could grow into something more permanent — but we can’t make any promises. Here is the job description, spread the word:
Northfield, Minnesota has [...]
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Posted in Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Journalism jobs, Locally Grown, Northfield, Representative Journalism, journalist | No Comments
February 21st, 2008 by Leonard Witt
Let the Representative Journalism begin, here is what I posted at the PJNet.org:
Hello Eric Von Hippel and thank you for convincing me that “free revealing” works.Several months ago, as regular readers of the PJNet.org know, I started freely revealing my idea of Representative Journalism to the world. Ruth Ann Harnisch, a former TV, print [...]
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Posted in Harnisch Family Foundation, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Locally Grown, Ruth Ann Harnisch | 7 Comments
December 8th, 2007 by Leonard Witt
The New York Times has an article today on how Consumer Reports online survives from paid subscriptions, while the prevailing wisdom is that people will not pay for online information. Here is an excerpt:
For a decade, however, Consumer Reports has charged Internet readers the same price as print subscribers, currently $26 a year (or $5.99 for a [...]
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Posted in Consumer Reports, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Journalism Value, Representative Journalism | 3 Comments
November 10th, 2007 by Leonard Witt
Back at Jeff Jarvis’s Networked Journalism Summit as I was networking with Lisa Williams of Placeblogger.com and telling her about Representative Journalism and about a grant I was writing aimed to it. She took a look at my grant proposal and then wrote in it:
Journalism is becoming a high-tech profession. And like other high-tech professions such as software [...]
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Posted in Journalism, Lisa Williams, journalist | 1 Comment
October 24th, 2007 by Leonard Witt
At my sister site, PJNet.org, I have been running a series of videos on the future of journalism. Today I decided to run one of the videos here instead because it plays into the Representative Journalism concept so well. At ConvergeSouth 2007 I did an interview with Anton Zuiker of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of [...]
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Posted in Anton Zuiker, Environmental Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Medical News, North Carolina, Representative Journalism, Research Triangle Park, Science News, Technology News, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
October 16th, 2007 by Leonard Witt
I have touted the idea of hiring super journalists, who provide so much good and new information that they create value for their Representative Journalism communities. However, these excellent reporters will need excellent editors — and often they will need excellent editors who understand the issue or discipline underlying each Representative Journalism community. If the [...]
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Posted in Journalism, Representative Journalism, editing | 3 Comments
October 1st, 2007 by Leonard Witt
The New York Times has a story about the nonprofit St. Petersburg Times, with this key excerpt:
“We don’t put out a newspaper to make money,” says Paul C. Tash, the chief executive of the Times Publishing Company, which oversees the paper. “We make money so we can put out a great newspaper.”
Still the St. Petersburg Times [...]
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Posted in Environmental Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Poynter, Representative Journalism, St. Petersburg Times, Uncategorized, journalist, social networks | 1 Comment
September 23rd, 2007 by Leonard Witt
Using Robert Picard as my touchstone, earlier I wrote that too many journalists lack value. They are all but cogs in a machine. However, my idea of a Representative Journalist is someone who would provide plenty of value for a Representative Journalism community. So much value that rather than hiring a kid right out of college, the [...]
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Posted in Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Journalism Value, Representative Journalism, Uncategorized, journalist, social networks | 5 Comments
September 19th, 2007 by Leonard Witt
Saul Friedman, a 1963 Nieman Fellow and former White House correspondent for Newsday and Knight Ridder newspapers, writes at Neiman Watchdog Blog:
Why can’t reporters who cover their beats well and who become as expert as possible in that field–the law, courts, medicine, consumerism, politics, the Congress, even the presidency–write for their newspapers as if [...]
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Posted in Journalism, Journalism Value, Nieman Watchdog, Representative Journalism, journalist | No Comments
September 15th, 2007 by Leonard Witt
Doc Searls, co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, in talking about the new ecology of news writes:
…the larger trend to watch over time is the inevitable decline in advertising support for journalistic work, and the growing need to find means for replacing that funding — or to face the fact that journalism will become largely an [...]
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