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Announcing: ReportingOn 2.0 is live

July 2, 2009

ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers.
It’s still the backchannel for your beat, but it’s an absolute re-imagining of the network.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to find [...]

Upcoming proof of my physical existence: Boston and Pittsburgh

June 10, 2009

I’ll be showing up in person in at least two different places outside the lush springtime confines of Western New York over the next few weeks, believe it or not.
The rough details
Next week, I’ll be in Cambridge, Ma. at MIT for the Future of News and Civic Media Conference, including the announcements of the 2009 [...]

Grad school update: I think I’m done

April 8, 2009

For those of you keeping score, I started blogging, more or less, when I started graduate school at San Jose State University back in early 2005.
As of Monday, April 6, 2009, I’m finished with my M.S. in Mass Communications at SJSU’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications, after turning in my project report and presenting [...]

On IdeaLab: ReportingOn, rephrased in the form of a question

March 26, 2009

Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, where I write about the development of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project, I just posted something that starts to get into what Phase 2 of the “back channel for your beat” is going to look like.
Well, not what it’s going to *look* like exactly, but how it’s going [...]

On IdeaLab: DIY development, design, community management, and marketing isn’t for me (this year)

December 12, 2008

Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted an update on what’s going on with ReportingOn, which is to say, there’s not much going on with ReportingOn.  For now.
My Knight News Challenge-funded project to connect journalists on the same topical beat with their peers launched on October 1.  I continued development work on it through the month of [...]