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Shocking, but it's the age we live in, unfortunately...

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I hear ya. I think I'm about 50 blog posts behind, or something like that!

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Chris O'Brien commented on sally duros's blog post 'New Economic Models for News at U of Minn'

Thanks for sharing this here. I'm still trying to unpack my own notes and thoughts from another conference. But I'll check this out, too. Also, would love to hear a few of your takeaways from the event.

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Joey: This is a great concept. Aside from the tools, what are doing to recruit folks who are attending, have tickets, etc.? I know this is super early stage, but connecting with those folks early to get them on board, using their own tools (iphone...

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ClayE commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'Ready For The Multi-Touch News Wall In Your Newsroom?'

The TOUCHWALL might be good innovation in newsroom. So I think it will work here. Since it will track new updates and information then it will be a great help to the community. Anyway, you might hear the news about MJ’s death right? Every room kno...

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Check Out New Videos from MIT Conference

I'm still way behind getting my notes together from the MIT conference last month. But in the meantime, I've added two videos from the event that were posted by the Center For The Future of Civic Media, which hosted us at MIT. Click on the video t...

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About Me: By day, I'm a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News.

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Posted on July 1, 2009 at 2:41pm —

Ready For The Multi-Touch News Wall In Your Newsroom?

Touchwall Demo from Joel on Vimeo.

A colleague just passed along a link to this video he saw while attending the Cannes Lions 2009 International Advertising Festival. This "Touchwall" is being developed by Schematic, which is an "interactive agency that creates branded experience… Continue

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 5:02pm — 3 Comments

Day 1: Future Of News And Civic Media Conference @MIT

I'm writing this as Day 2 is getting started. But I wanted to reflect on a few things that came up yesterday.

The big moment of the day came with the afternoon announcement of the 2009 News Challenge Winners. Check out the list of winners. I was particularly excited to see several important mobile-related projects get the nod. But one of the most high-profile projec… Continue

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 7:18am —

Announcing The New Class Of News Challenge Winners

Here's the press release announcing the new class of Knight Foundation News Challenge Winners:

News Experiments to Help Transform Community Life With $5.1 million from Knight Foundation

MIAMI — Nine projects that use crowdsourcing, mobile technology and digital investigative journalism to bring news and information to communities in new ways have been named winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge.

“The future of news is being test

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Posted on June 17, 2009 at 11:55am —

Heading This Week To The Knight Foundation's Future of News and Civic Media Conference

I'm already counting down the hours until the Future of News and Civic Media Conference kicks off on Wednesday. Based at MIT, the conference brings together past winners of the Knight News Challenge grant program along with the new class that will be announced Wednesday. The Next Newsroom Project was a 2007 winner.

You can check out the… Continue

Posted on June 15, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

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At 7:19pm on June 30, 2009, Renata Cabrales Rojas said…: Hi,
Thanks!!!!
I am a colombian journalist. Work as web editor in El País newspaper (www.elpais.com.co), of Cali, Colombia. Run a network about multimedia journalism: http://redmultimedia.ning.com

At 9:55pm on April 17, 2009, jeff bunch said…: Sounds good. Just shoot me an email early next week; glad to help.

At 4:53pm on April 17, 2009, Chris O'Brien said…: Check the e-mail interview I did with Ourblook about the Newsroom of the Future here:

http://www.ourblook.com/Reporters-and-the-Media/Chris-O-Brien-on-Next-Newspaper-Project.html

At 8:21am on April 10, 2009, jeff bunch said…: Chris, I have to say great job! I see the Duke conference is set. Could we maybe do one on the west coast (bay area) around the time of ONA 10/1-2?

At 12:10pm on February 25, 2009, Cynthia Thomet said…: Wondering if there's another conference coming up... Just joined your "Next Newsroom" since media issues are always on my mind. I read your column in the (actual, crisp, old-fashioned) paper all the time -- but love how you're engaging with the future in mind...
Cynthia

At 5:24am on January 7, 2009, Michael J said…: Thanks for the ping. it's a good discussion. Glad to be here.

At 10:38pm on November 18, 2008, Paul Kandell said…: Hi Chris,

I suspect you didn't have high school journalism teachers on your list when you were thinking who might join NextNewsroom, but I think we might be building a state-of-the-art media center (and perhaps small conference facility) at Palo Alto High School and the things your colleagues here are talking about are right up our alley. We're not under the same business pressures, but I think there probably are lots of overlapping architecture ideas. If you know of anybody locally that you think I simply must talk with, please pass on a referral. Looks like I just missed your most recent conference. Too bad.

Anyway, drop a line if you think it's worth us talking.

Paul

At 8:01pm on November 2, 2008, Lea Korsgaard said…: Hi Chris,
nice meeting you too - and yes I acctually really enjoyed the konference - lot's og great inspiration.
Lea

At 10:23pm on October 19, 2008, Miguel Paz said…: Hey Chris! Answering your question:
I am a chilean journalist focused on investigative reporting, media and politics. I live in Santiago, Chile. I work at www.elmostrador.cl, run a personal blog about journalism and media industry, collaborate ocasionally with argentinian Perfil and Noticias magazine, have a weekly podcast and teach Internet for Journalist and News Projects at Universidad Diego Portales` J School.

Take care

At 12:38pm on August 27, 2008, Kerry Mickelson said…: Hey Chris,
Thanks for the ping. I am the program manager for the replacement of the entire newsroom application suites, wires, scripts, audio, media, and of course workflow. My groups work touches on every aspect of workflow as well as the technical side and yes, workflow and building an engine around it is one of the most challenging parts of the job since we have several shows all with different ways the get information. NPR did a world wide search for Newsroom systems and went with DAVID systems for core systems and expanding their product suite. My software development group built the workflow engine, as well as the face of the rundowns which are smart enough to adapt to breaking news, rolling coverage, breaking formats, the list goes on. If I were to guess how much we programmed and how much DAVID systems did I would gets 50/50 since the applications that tie into ingest/billing/messaging/reporting/HR systems don't exist off the shelf.

I will talk to my Boss the CIO about blogging for nextnewsroom as I am on the Newsroom 2.0 counsel and would be writing somewhat representing NPR. Baring any objections, I would love to.

Kerry