Another “Village Soup” site in Wareham, MA

Posted on July 13, 2010 by jestevens

I just added WarehamVillageSoup.com to the growing list of niche news sites and networks on Jurnos Wik. Anne Eisenmenger, founder and publisher of one of the affiliates of the Village Soup network, sends this info in a 7/12/10 email: “The first out-of-Maine licensee of Village Soup, we have simultaneously worked to “reinvent” the community newspaper. [...]

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Talkin’ about….WellCommons

Posted on June 6, 2010 by jestevens

For the last year, I’ve been head-down in development. My (poor neglected) blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts have seen few words, photos, graphs or video. However, now my head’s finally up, and it’s time to talk about what much of that last year has been about: WellCommons, the new local health site that we at [...]

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10 things every jurno should know

Posted on January 5, 2010 by jestevens

John Thompson at Journalism.co.uk says jurnos need to know these 10 things. He’s hit it RIGHT on the head. The only two things I’d add: Context — with links, resources, etc…..a matrix for your news/info….nothing stands alone. He gets close to that with point No. 3: 3. You are a curator. Like it or not, [...]

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Sputters and Launches

Posted on March 10, 2009 by jestevens

While 24/7WallSt lists the top 10 newspapers that are likely to close or go entirely online, a newly laid-off journalist is a week into the launch of another niche site. On Feb. 23, Greg Hernandez was laid off from the LA Daily News, where he’d been doing the Out in Hollywood blog. Seven days later, [...]

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Making a Living with QuincyNews.org

Posted on March 7, 2009 by jestevens

When Bob Gough lost his job as news director at a Quincy, IL, TV station in October 2007, he had a choice: Move to another city or figure out another way to stay in the journalism biz in Quincy. He didn’t want to move — Quincy was his home. He had a wife with a [...]

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A Modest Proposal, Part Two (for the Jurnos on the Sidewalk)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by jestevens

The Rocky Mountain News published for the last time today. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is next, with its last day likely to be sometime early in March. The Hearst Corporation is threatening closure of the San Francisco Chronicle if it can’t shrink that news organization to zombie status. (Definition of a zombie newspaper: a skeleton staff [...]

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The New Metros

Posted on January 26, 2009 by jestevens

Dollars to donuts, sometime in the next 12 months, residents of a metropolitan area will wake up one day, go to their doorsteps, and wonder why they don’t see their newspaper. They’ll check the metro’s Web site, and it won’t be there. Or, there might be one that’s so pared down that only tatters remain: [...]

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WestSeattleBlog — Don’t Call Them ‘Bloggers’

Posted on January 16, 2009 by jestevens

Just because they’re using a blog format, says WestSeattleBlog co-founder Tracy Record, it doesn’t mean they’re “bloggers.” (Unfortunately, that’s still a perjorative term in the journalism community. That’s too bad, since the blogging format is the Web “story” format.) Tracy and hubby Patrick Sand started blogging about their West Seattle neighborhood in January 2006 while [...]

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NYT’s Carr Doesn’t Understand Webworld

Posted on January 13, 2009 by jestevens

In yesterday’s NYT, David Carr suggested that Steve Jobs’ iTunes model, in which many people pay a tiny amount for stories, might serve as a way of convincing people to pay for news. Those of us who are in the newspaper business could not be blamed for hoping that someone like him comes along and [...]

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It’s Not About The Business Plan

Posted on January 8, 2009 by jestevens

Business plan. Business model. Business plan. Business model. Jeez Louise it seems that’s all you hear about these days. To survive in Webworld, it’s going to take a lot more than developing a new business plan. To adapt to Webworld, the entire approach to news has to change. No business model will help. If you [...]

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