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My name is Michele Ellson, and I have a local news site in Alameda, Calif. called The Island. I started the site after many years in newspapers, just to see what I can do, and I have to say, it's not as scary out here as people might think. Thanks for posting this site, I look forward to reading here for tips!
Jane Stevens here. I'm a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and blogging at Rejurno.com, most recently with a proposal for how jurnos can create niche sites and form a network that could replace newspapers that are shrinking or closing. I've been doing Web journalism since 1997, and am now developing a local health site through the RJICollaboratory.
Welcome. Have a look around. Post story or two. Leave a comment on a story that catches your eye. It looks like people are still getting a feel for the place.
Hello, I'm Sofia Perez, a freelance writer/editor and the editor-at-large for Saveur magazine. I also used to work in broadcast news at NBC in what seems like another lifetime. Saw Brad's posting on an alumni listserv and figured I'd dip my toe in the water.
Hi, Sofia. Welcome! Feel free to browse around to see who else has said hello, vote on a few stories that catch your eye and feel free to add to any of the discussions already happening. Welcome aboard.
I'm Justin Peters. I'm the managing Web editor at CJR.org. Josh Young tipped me off to this site, and I'm glad he did. Looking forward to reading and participating.
my name is mark roth, and I too am an addict for new concepts and ways to make a business out information and data -- lately just news, news, news! I work for a chicago company with lots of newspapers and I am responsible for developing new business and revenue for the interactive media side of things.
I am honored to have met Bflora recently and to Saduros for linking me here tonight.
Hi, I'm Sally Duros, and I was most recently Real Estate Editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. I had been kicking around the web and start-up world as an indy journo and communications consultant for quite a while before going captive at the ST in 2006, where I learned how absolutely baffled the newspaper was by the web...laid off Feb. 2008, I am on a mission to see the newsroom (clusters) of the future birthed in Chicago and like the idea of a new social enterprise hybrid, the L3C. You can find me saduros at twitter.
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Hi Sally: It's Tracey Robinson-English. I am consulting now at the Kellogg Entrepreneurial Center and building a team of writers to produce case studies on Kellogg alum. If you're interested, I'd like to add you to the team. Join us for a case study session March 18 with renown professor Steve Rogers from 9 a.m. to 1 pm at Kellogg, 2001 N. Sheridan,#165. The rate for cases studies range from $500 to $1,000. For more info, call me at 773-636-4566. Glad to know you're still kicking.
I am an independent consultant working with media companies, mostly newspapers, to help them integrate high-quality local bloggers in their print and online products to increase the companies' reach, relevance and revenue. Over the last several years, I have consulted at the LATimes.com, the MiamiHerald. com, and the world news start-up GlobalPost.com. I was also the editor of BostonNOW where we published bloggers in our paper and on our website. I was also the editor at AOL's Digital City Boston. Prior to that, I spent a couple of decades in MSM.
I can't decide if existing newspapers are going to figure out that they need to be the source of ALL great local information, not just stuff they create, or if they're going to disappear in favor of smaller, more connected new competitors.
John, your last point is frighteningly well put. Welcome.
Information is kind of a circular game. When you point to information, you're also creating information that someone else can point to. For a long while, newspapers, tv,radio were about the only game in town who was making information for consumers. So they could afford to only point to their own info...now, not so much.
Howdy! I'm Josh Young. I work on the mortgage trading desk at a bulge-bracket bank. I sometimes contribute tech-and-journalism pieces to the Columbia Journalism Review.
I'm also a founder of an under-wraps news startup. The vision? We break apart the news so you can put it back together with your pals. Our first service, to be launched in a couple months, will be a very simple rss filtering web app--our introduction to the world! You give a set of feeds, and we machine-tag them and present a rich set of sub-feeds to which you can subscribe. Stay tuned.
I blog at http://networkednews.wordpress.com, and I'm also @jny2 on twitter. Drop me a note there!
Sounds like you know a thing or two about making a buck. I look forward to your posts on here, as that seems like something journalists need to get a bit better at.
I'm Barry Parr. I publish Coastsider, a community news site for coastal San Mateo County, California, and MediaSavvy, a blog about networked publishing.
I'm a former Senior Analyst at Forrester, VP News at CNET, and Managing Producer at the San Jose Mercury News.
Looking forward to hearing what you're learning with Coastsider. The incorporation of press releases into the main news feed is something I've seen on a handful of community news startups. Seems like something the neighborhood would love, and exactly the sort of thing that makes journalists' skin crawl.
"exactly the sort of thing that makes journalists' skin crawl." LOL - yep. except from the mission-based POV incorporating community announcements (PR) makes sense. I tend toward thinking as long as you are not tryingto pick pennies form my pocket - bring it on! If you are looking for my money, or to sell me something, well, then buy an ad!
I've spent much of the last few years working at the Boston Globe and Boston.com in online product development, focusing at various times on recruitment, real estate, local search, community and hyperlocal.
My current project is called Serendeputy, a new take on personalized news search. It's currently in private alpha, and will launch sometime this spring-ish. I have a thing about personalization, and I think it will be critical to the success of online publishers in the next few years.
I look forward to using this site. I love Hacker News, and I hope this site works as well. I'm @jpbutler on Twitter.
I'm shooting to launch the next iteration on Opening Day. Then, I'll see if I can go from five people to a thousand without the servers melting. Mass personalization makes the gerbils run really really fast.
Hi, my name's Brad Flora and I helm a social, local news startup called The Windy Citizen. I'm a Medill MSJ graduate ('08) and am very interested in hacker journalism, i.e. applying technology to help make sense of vast amounts of data. With the Windy Citizen we're using technology to give Chicagoans a central place to rate and discuss local news, a la Reddit or Digg. I'd be happy to talk more about it.
I'm the guy who set up J-Startup News and who runs the Twitter account for it. I live in Chicago with a rotating cast of characters who turn up from Craigslist. I'm still working on the work/life balance stuff.
Hi -- I'm Linda Foley, immediate past president of The Newspaper Guild (the union that represents print journos and others). I am a 1977 Medill grad and serve on the sohool's Board of Advisors. I'm very interested in brainstorming a way to save journalism as a career path.
'ello, I'm Joey Baker. I serve as the Business Director for CoPress, a non-profit startup centered around creating a better 'technical ecosystem' for college media. RIght now, our prime focus is on offering pooled hosting and support for college papers on Wordpress. Eventually, this will expand to a django based CMS. Additionally, we're working to create a community for long-term support, knowledge, and code sharing.
I've sorta fallen into this whole 'save journalism' thing. I'm formally a photojournalist and/or UX designer with a strong interest in business models for journalism. Specifically, I'm interested in how technical convergence has been altering the economy/social ecosystem.
Welcome, Joey! Great to have you on here. College media is an interesting world unto itself. It's interesting to hear it's even got it's own culture, too.
I'll admit, I'm part of the old business model. I'm the interactive content producer for a 22K circ publication that covers three rural, ag-heavy counties north of Sacramento.
I heard Brad speak a couple of weeks ago at a KDMC workshop at UC Berkeley, which snapped me awake to what's happening with journalism startups like him and some of our other speakers (Common Language Project, West Seattle Blog, etc.)
I think the old media organizations can somewhat adapt to what's going to happen, but whether they will is an entirely different issue. In any case, all I can do is open the doors... and be ready to walk through one myself.
Hi, Robert. Welcome! I think one thing we'll see very quickly on here is how many different ideas are out there in the ether. I've already learned about 2 new startups in the pipeline through people's comments on here. Some of these will be companies that old media should work with. Others will be ones old media should purchase. Others will stand alone and other will fold, the quicker the better.
Halo. Im Dark and I run site Make A history* - the best of free World
Free music, net labels, music videos; source for news, interviews, reviews (underground, anarchy, alternative, uncenzored, progressive, real, daily). Reviews the best albums of net label production with free download of album package. Great massive art poster & comics collection! ... free music for free people. Submit your site to link directory ..... fast and easy . http://www.makeahistory.com
My name is Michele Ellson, and I have a local news site in Alameda, Calif. called The Island. I started the site after many years in newspapers, just to see what I can do, and I have to say, it's not as scary out here as people might think. Thanks for posting this site, I look forward to reading here for tips!
Hi Michele, welcome. Please post your site as under the startup category and keep us posted when you've got news/updates about how it's doing.
Jane Stevens here. I'm a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and blogging at Rejurno.com, most recently with a proposal for how jurnos can create niche sites and form a network that could replace newspapers that are shrinking or closing. I've been doing Web journalism since 1997, and am now developing a local health site through the RJICollaboratory.
Welcome. Have a look around. Post story or two. Leave a comment on a story that catches your eye. It looks like people are still getting a feel for the place.
Hello, I'm Sofia Perez, a freelance writer/editor and the editor-at-large for Saveur magazine. I also used to work in broadcast news at NBC in what seems like another lifetime. Saw Brad's posting on an alumni listserv and figured I'd dip my toe in the water.
Hi, Sofia. Welcome! Feel free to browse around to see who else has said hello, vote on a few stories that catch your eye and feel free to add to any of the discussions already happening. Welcome aboard.
I'm Justin Peters. I'm the managing Web editor at CJR.org. Josh Young tipped me off to this site, and I'm glad he did. Looking forward to reading and participating.
Thanks, man!
my name is mark roth, and I too am an addict for new concepts and ways to make a business out information and data -- lately just news, news, news! I work for a chicago company with lots of newspapers and I am responsible for developing new business and revenue for the interactive media side of things.
I am honored to have met Bflora recently and to Saduros for linking me here tonight.
Hi, I'm Sally Duros, and I was most recently Real Estate Editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. I had been kicking around the web and start-up world as an indy journo and communications consultant for quite a while before going captive at the ST in 2006, where I learned how absolutely baffled the newspaper was by the web...laid off Feb. 2008, I am on a mission to see the newsroom (clusters) of the future birthed in Chicago and like the idea of a new social enterprise hybrid, the L3C. You can find me saduros at twitter.
Hi Sally: It's Tracey Robinson-English. I am consulting now at the Kellogg Entrepreneurial Center and building a team of writers to produce case studies on Kellogg alum. If you're interested, I'd like to add you to the team. Join us for a case study session March 18 with renown professor Steve Rogers from 9 a.m. to 1 pm at Kellogg, 2001 N. Sheridan,#165. The rate for cases studies range from $500 to $1,000. For more info, call me at 773-636-4566. Glad to know you're still kicking.
Hi! My name is John Wilpers.
I am an independent consultant working with media companies, mostly newspapers, to help them integrate high-quality local bloggers in their print and online products to increase the companies' reach, relevance and revenue. Over the last several years, I have consulted at the LATimes.com, the MiamiHerald. com, and the world news start-up GlobalPost.com. I was also the editor of BostonNOW where we published bloggers in our paper and on our website. I was also the editor at AOL's Digital City Boston. Prior to that, I spent a couple of decades in MSM.
I can't decide if existing newspapers are going to figure out that they need to be the source of ALL great local information, not just stuff they create, or if they're going to disappear in favor of smaller, more connected new competitors.
John, your last point is frighteningly well put. Welcome.
Information is kind of a circular game. When you point to information, you're also creating information that someone else can point to. For a long while, newspapers, tv,radio were about the only game in town who was making information for consumers. So they could afford to only point to their own info...now, not so much.
Howdy! I'm Josh Young. I work on the mortgage trading desk at a bulge-bracket bank. I sometimes contribute tech-and-journalism pieces to the Columbia Journalism Review.
I'm also a founder of an under-wraps news startup. The vision? We break apart the news so you can put it back together with your pals. Our first service, to be launched in a couple months, will be a very simple rss filtering web app--our introduction to the world! You give a set of feeds, and we machine-tag them and present a rich set of sub-feeds to which you can subscribe. Stay tuned.
I blog at http://networkednews.wordpress.com, and I'm also @jny2 on twitter. Drop me a note there!
Sounds like you know a thing or two about making a buck. I look forward to your posts on here, as that seems like something journalists need to get a bit better at.
I'm Barry Parr. I publish Coastsider, a community news site for coastal San Mateo County, California, and MediaSavvy, a blog about networked publishing.
I'm a former Senior Analyst at Forrester, VP News at CNET, and Managing Producer at the San Jose Mercury News.
Looking forward to hearing what you're learning with Coastsider. The incorporation of press releases into the main news feed is something I've seen on a handful of community news startups. Seems like something the neighborhood would love, and exactly the sort of thing that makes journalists' skin crawl.
"exactly the sort of thing that makes journalists' skin crawl." LOL - yep. except from the mission-based POV incorporating community announcements (PR) makes sense. I tend toward thinking as long as you are not tryingto pick pennies form my pocket - bring it on! If you are looking for my money, or to sell me something, well, then buy an ad!
Reporter at a small-town paper in the Midwest. Looking forward to talking shop with everyone on here.
Hi! I'm Jason Butler.
I've spent much of the last few years working at the Boston Globe and Boston.com in online product development, focusing at various times on recruitment, real estate, local search, community and hyperlocal.
My current project is called Serendeputy, a new take on personalized news search. It's currently in private alpha, and will launch sometime this spring-ish. I have a thing about personalization, and I think it will be critical to the success of online publishers in the next few years.
I look forward to using this site. I love Hacker News, and I hope this site works as well. I'm @jpbutler on Twitter.
Cheers,
Jason
Welcome, welcome. How does one get an invite to your alpha testing? I'm sure some folks on here might be interested.
I'm shooting to launch the next iteration on Opening Day. Then, I'll see if I can go from five people to a thousand without the servers melting. Mass personalization makes the gerbils run really really fast.
Hi, my name's Brad Flora and I helm a social, local news startup called The Windy Citizen. I'm a Medill MSJ graduate ('08) and am very interested in hacker journalism, i.e. applying technology to help make sense of vast amounts of data. With the Windy Citizen we're using technology to give Chicagoans a central place to rate and discuss local news, a la Reddit or Digg. I'd be happy to talk more about it.
I'm the guy who set up J-Startup News and who runs the Twitter account for it. I live in Chicago with a rotating cast of characters who turn up from Craigslist. I'm still working on the work/life balance stuff.
Hi -- I'm Linda Foley, immediate past president of The Newspaper Guild (the union that represents print journos and others). I am a 1977 Medill grad and serve on the sohool's Board of Advisors. I'm very interested in brainstorming a way to save journalism as a career path.
Welcome! I look forward to reading your posts.
'ello, I'm Joey Baker. I serve as the Business Director for CoPress, a non-profit startup centered around creating a better 'technical ecosystem' for college media. RIght now, our prime focus is on offering pooled hosting and support for college papers on Wordpress. Eventually, this will expand to a django based CMS. Additionally, we're working to create a community for long-term support, knowledge, and code sharing.
I've sorta fallen into this whole 'save journalism' thing. I'm formally a photojournalist and/or UX designer with a strong interest in business models for journalism. Specifically, I'm interested in how technical convergence has been altering the economy/social ecosystem.
You can find me at byjoeybaker.com or on twitter at @joeybaker.
Hey, Joey! Check out the latest from this college media project. The wireframes are here:
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2009/02/digital-newsroom-wireframes-available057.html
You should submit this as its own news item.
You bet, we're working closely with Populous. CoPress is excited to see what they come up with!
Welcome, Joey! Great to have you on here. College media is an interesting world unto itself. It's interesting to hear it's even got it's own culture, too.
Hi! My name is Robert LaHue.
I'll admit, I'm part of the old business model. I'm the interactive content producer for a 22K circ publication that covers three rural, ag-heavy counties north of Sacramento.
I heard Brad speak a couple of weeks ago at a KDMC workshop at UC Berkeley, which snapped me awake to what's happening with journalism startups like him and some of our other speakers (Common Language Project, West Seattle Blog, etc.)
I think the old media organizations can somewhat adapt to what's going to happen, but whether they will is an entirely different issue. In any case, all I can do is open the doors... and be ready to walk through one myself.
Hi, Robert. Welcome! I think one thing we'll see very quickly on here is how many different ideas are out there in the ether. I've already learned about 2 new startups in the pipeline through people's comments on here. Some of these will be companies that old media should work with. Others will be ones old media should purchase. Others will stand alone and other will fold, the quicker the better.