CRITIQUE & LAUNCHING POINT

Throughout the two-day think tank, many important themes continued to rise to the surface: community journalism, user customization, paperless/mobile, engaging/fun content. Below, I want to describe some of the observations I made about the process and the people as well as briefly critique each prototype. Then make some kind of inspirational statement about ...

GROUP 3 PROTOTYPE

The concept

Our group identified two major problems: the disappearance of local journalism institutions and a public disconnected from journalists. So we wondered, "how might nomadic journalists work and how would community life continue to be successful?" This idea builds on Group 2 (inadvertently), mixes Spot.Us, Innocentive.com, OhMyNews.com, uWeb/iTunes/iNews and other journalism movements: public journalism, ...

Absolutely right. The argument that people will go elsewhere doesn't jive in one-newspaper towns such as Reno or even San Francisco. If the Reno Gazette-Journal or San Francisco Chronicle started charging for content readers would have absolutely nowhere else to go for local information involving courts, schools, people and business. The New York Times certainly ...

This is my first post to this blog, so allow me to preface it with a brief introduction. My name is Jay Balagna, I'm a 19-year-old freshman studying journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. I'm also the Assisstant News Editor for The Nevada Sagebrush. I'm originall from Denver, Colo. but I grew up in ...

So instead, news needs to find a way to create something that doesn't only help the journalist, but helps thousands of other unpaid creative people. uNews must be for more than news. It must be for all creative endeavours. It must be for InnoCentive.com, it must be for people who want to make money off of ...

David Carr of The New York Times is either an asshole or genius. He discusses the idea of making an iTunes for distributing news and information (click here for Michael Hogan's take). Wow, it's about time. [...] ...

The fundamental flaw in journalism is that it is funded not by its result but by its left overs. The better journalists do, the more they are punished. Talented journalists are saved to make up for missing people in order to do more work. Journalism’s business model does not pay good journalists for good journalism. ...

As a teacher, the evolution in power from media gatekeepers to the individual citizen has tremendous implications for what students (and others) are expected to competently manage. We have an elaborate set of tools designed to help students operate in an environment where information is as scarce as water in a desert, but very little ...