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Lessons Learned: Week 1 Representative Journalism Blog

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Last week I started the Representative Journalism blog. The most important lesson I learned during the first week is that Representative Journalists, and indeed all journalists, if they want, will be closely linked to their communities via established tools like Digg and Twitter and emerging tools like Publish2 and ReporTwitter.
 Audiences will easily be able to [...]

Posted in David Cohn, Innocentive, Journalism Business Models, NetAssignment.net, Representative Journalism, Uncategorized, social networks, transparency | 2 Comments »

Crowdfunding: When Believers Provide Support

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

David Cohn at NewAssignment.net has been thinking about his own version of Representative Journalism. The other day he wrote at his blog:
Representative journalism, as I understand it, is very similar to what Innocentive has done for science research. (More reading: Our Assignment Zero interview with Alpheus Bingham, co-founder of Innocentive.)
I’d like to add my voice to the chorus. [...]

Posted in David Cohn, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, NetAssignment.net, Representative Journalism | 5 Comments »

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About RJ

  • Your host

    Leonard Witt

    Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger at PJNet.org.

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  • Advisory Board

    Northfield Trial Project Team: Leonard Witt, Chris Peck, Bill Densmore,

    Advisory Board: Bill Buzenberg, David Cohn, Oscar Corral, Ken Doctor, David Eckoff, Amy Gahan, Mark Glaser, Joel Kramer Dori J. Maynard, Ken Sands, Jan Schaffer, Venise Wagner, Lisa Williams

    Financial Support: Harnisch Family Foundation and its president Ruth Ann Harnisch

  • What I'm thinking about

  • A Definition

    Representative Journalism, a term coined by Leonard Witt, aims to build sustainable journalism one small group at a time.

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  • Your Role

    Leonard Witt has been developing the Representative Journalism idea behind the scenes for several months. Now he is going public. You can help develop the concept into a workable model or models for mainstream media, small operations, start-ups or individual endeavors.

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