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What does being "online first" mean in your newsroom?
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What would you like to see this project do in our next phase of research?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Melanie Wright Sep. 18, 2008.

 

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On Friday, I'll be attending a Digital Think In hosted by National Public Radio and Frog Design. The goal of the gathering is to brainstorm ideas about the future of NPR. I was honored to be asked to join. And my self aside, the line-up of partici...
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SocialMedia.biz: Highlights from ONA 2009. By J.D. Lasica Hatchomatic: Some wicked multimedia tools… Mark Briggs: Four things I learned at ONA. Brian Boyer: A quick primer on making software — best practices, tools and further reading
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How journalists can use social media to build community View more documents from JD Lasica.
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Online News Association's videos: http://vimeo.com/user2159705/videos/sort:date
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Link economy session was great (disclosure: my Publish2 peeps, yeah!). Also, Jay Rosen's live, participatory "Rebooting the News" session was excellent. I'll add the video here when it's finished.
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NPR Digital ThinkIn: Live Stream On Friday

On Friday, I'll be attending a Digital Think In hosted by National Public Radio and Frog Design. The goal of the gathering is to brainstorm ideas about the future of NPR. I was honored to be asked to join. And my self aside, the line-up of participants is very exciting:
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Walt Mossberg: How True/Slant Revolutionizes News

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At 11:21am on October 6, 2009, Cathy Brooks said…
Who knows, maybe we can figure out the answer to this whole "dying" industry thing :)
At 7:07am on October 6, 2009, Cathy Brooks said…
Thanks for approving me :)

And thanks for your time ... the blog post I thought turned out well and the response was great. Sadly Brian changed his commenting system LITERALLY the next day so about 20 comments - including yours - were lost :(

But there's still some dialogue there of interest ... Would love to have you on Social Media Hour some time to talk further on this topic
At 9:58pm on September 23, 2009, Cathy Brooks said…
With pleasure, Chris! This is a great group you created and who knows, maybe we'll actually figure some things out :)
At 7:36pm on September 22, 2009, Ellen Miller said…
Sure do. I work with Len at the Center for Sustainable Journalism. He's the Executive Director.
At 8:01pm on September 21, 2009, Andrew Finlayson said…
Yes. Great opportunity this year with some very interesting fellows.
At 8:50am on September 18, 2009, Henry Peirse said…
Great - look forward to it
At 10:58pm on August 13, 2009, Gilles BRUNO said…
thank you so much for adding me as your friend. Please come and read http://www.observatoiredesmedias.com tell me what you think. If you think articles you find somewhere should be translated to french, let me know!!
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
 
 

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