Over at IdeaLab, I’m continuing a conversation I started on Twitter a couple weeks ago that spilled over here as well.
What do you call your readers now that they’re participating actively in the creation and curation of unbundled media?
Do you call them a community?
Better yet, what makes an online “community” and how can local news [...]
All about readers
New at IdeaLab: The People Formerly Known as the Audience need a new name
July 21, 2009
Are your readers a community?
July 8, 2009
I asked my Twitter followers what they think of substituting the word “community” for “readers” and I’m getting lots of good responses, many of them negative.
Either I didn’t know “community” had much of a stigma, or I spent too long working with “community” newspapers to notice. Back then, it seemed like a great linguistic [...]
At IdeaLab: Paul Bradshaw on crowdsourcing investigative journalism
June 4, 2009
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve been way past deadline for a post, after (again) making all sorts of promises about helping out more over there. Until now.
After playing the modern equivalent of phone tag (Twitter DMs and e-mail across two operating systems and one ocean) for a week or so, Paul Bradshaw and I landed [...]
October Carnival of Journalism: How to move the needle in your newsroom today
October 18, 2008
Journerdist-In-Chief Will Sullivan hosts this month’s resurgent Carnival of Journalism, asking the following:
“What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?”
I’ve mentioned some incremental steps you take to grow a little revenue at a time recently, and there’s a list of free or cheap tools for online news sitting [...]