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(11102, 17, '2012-07-25 16:27:19', '2012-07-25 23:27:19', '<div class=\"underwrite\" style=\"background-color: #eeeeee !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-align: center; padding-top: 0px !important;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11105\" title=\"AJ Leon\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ajleon.jpg\" alt=\"AJ Leon\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" /><em>AJ Leon, co-founder of the creative marketing company Misfit, Inc., opens up to the possibilities in Kaniche, Malawi.\nCourtesy Misfit, Inc.</em></div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Last week, Robert Burns Nixon, CFO of the <a href=\"http://sffamainc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Fashion and Merchants Alliance</a>, highlighted <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ja-interview-are-you-hm-or-couture-business-insight-offered-from-beyond-the-publishing-world/\">here</a> several fashion industry best practices that might work well in publishing too. For example, getting direct feedback on concepts before going into full production, and holding trademarked events.</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>For more business insights from beyond the usual suspects, we invited AJ Leon, co-founder of <a href=\"http://misfit-inc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Misfit, Inc.</a> to, as Robert did, read the JA forums on <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/local-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/\">local</a> and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/niche-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/\">niche</a> news held earlier this year and respond. AJ offers insights where he sees promise for publishers to gain greater revenue, deepen connections and capitalize on the power of immediacy.  The interview has been edited for clarity and length.</em></p>\nMisfit, Inc., started because it fulfilled a dream. AJ and Melissa Leon wanted to travel. They also wanted to do creative work for causes they support. So AJ left banking and Melissa left teaching. Slowly but steadily, they built a business that develops creative media campaigns all over the world. They are dipping into publishing now too, with a planned <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajleon/7157488728/\" target=\"_blank\">e-guide</a> to renting out your home using <a href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Air BNB</a> and a new <a href=\"http://misfit-inc.com/quarterly\" target=\"_blank\">multimedia arts journal</a>. Before offering thoughts on business approaches he’s taken that might be useful to publishers, AJ found plenty to learn in the JA conversations on sustaining <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/local-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/\">local</a> and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/niche-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/\">niche</a> news.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>AJ Leon, Misfit, Inc.:</strong> Both of those threads I thought were fascinating, because local news is not something that you hear about anymore. So people creating startups locally and trying to make money was something I found interesting. Michele McLellan <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/local-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/#comment-1568\">tells the story</a> of the Chicago News Co-op and how they failed because they weren\'t tied into the local community. Contrast that with <a href=\"http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/\" target=\"_blank\">this East Village site</a> that I follow religiously. They contacted my friend <a href=\"http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/tag/joshua-davis/\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Davis</a>, he\'s an iPhoneographer, just a guy who went around creating beautiful photos of the East Village. And they reached out to him and always published his stuff.\n\nThat stood out to me. Also the guy who was talking about how [his local news site] had <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/niche-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/#comment-1652\">become profitable</a> in the last two quarters and now they were turning into a co-op and they were going to sell subscriptions and shares to their core readers. I thought, man, what a great idea. If the East Village one needed money and was selling subscriptions and shares. I would do it.\n<div class=\"underwrite\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11109\" title=\"The Local East Village\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/localeastvillage.jpg\" alt=\"The Local East Village\" width=\"250\" height=\"70\" />&nbsp;\n<h3>News on local news</h3>\nAJ’s favorite East Village news site is <a href=\"http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/06/6075601/times-will-end-partnerships-nyu-cuny-hyperlocal-blogs\" target=\"_blank\">changing</a> now that the New York Times ended its partnership with N.Y.U.’s journalism school. As the site seeks a new financial model, AJ may yet get a chance to subscribe.\n\n</div>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">Journalism Accelerator:</span> How much do you think you\'d pay for a subscription to the East Village site?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> Maybe $10 a month.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> A lot of local publishers are working to develop multiple streams of revenue. You run a business, you’ve worked in different industries. Can you share any insight on how to do that?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> It\'s hard to say what translates to the news world but off the top of my head I think something that will probably be profitable is events. There\'s so much online connection that there is this dire need and desire to connect face-to-face. I could see a local site or a niche site creating places people could come together. If I was in town and they did some sort of East Village get-together, just the local community, and there was a cover charge and they had a sponsor and all these things, that\'s another source of revenue that they could easily drive.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Why are you so loyal to the East Village?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> Because it’s an area that I identify with. If it were Manhattan, it\'s not convenient enough. They\'ve broken this down to the least common denominator that I care about, which is my neighborhood.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Would you describe your business?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> We\'re a creative agency, so we do web marketing for different types of clients. And inside of web marketing the services would be web design, marketing plans, content strategy, blah, blah. We will stay with somebody for a long time and try to do something significant. Twenty percent of our time from day one has been dedicated to non-profits, completely pro-bono. One of those recently was in Malawi where we worked with an organization called Water Aid to create an <a href=\"http://www.thebigdig.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram-powered blog</a> through village journalists who we trained. The blog is the central piece of a campaign to raise money for this area. And we\'ve already raised $1 million in 2.5 weeks, which is nuts.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Is there anything in that experience that you think might be useful for someone working as a startup publisher?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> One of the things that was particularly attractive to people following this was the absolute real time nature of the storytelling. And that it was done on a familiar and beloved platform, Instagram. You know it\'s real. You know some guy just published this from a phone in Africa. I think that is something that could translate to local news, having a combination of really polished articles and content alongside some type of real timeliness. You know it just happened 2 seconds ago if it goes live on Instagram.\n\nIn the last non-profit project we allowed people to join a village for a certain number of dollars a month and follow the journey of the village. There was a blog, but if they joined they got access to a private Facebook group where they could go deeper, get direct access to NGO workers and so forth. But we limited it to 100 people. It’s the oldest marketing trick in the book. You create scarcity and the value of whatever you\'re offering goes up. I think a lot of people think “I want as many subscribers as possible.” But if you limit it, I wonder if people would want to be one of them. People worry too much about infinite scalability. I think artificial caps create value.\n<div class=\"underwrite\" style=\"background-color: #eeeeee !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-align: center; padding-top: 0px !important; width: 300px !important; float: left; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 20px !important;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11114\" title=\"Instagram\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/instagram.jpg\" alt=\"Instagram\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /><em>AJ Leon of Misfit with Nathan Chiwoko of WaterAid, updating the world with Instagram. Courtesy Misfit, Inc.</em></div>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> One thing that came up in the JA forums on site sustainability was collaboration. You do a lot of partnering. Do you have any insights to build partnerships that can help everybody earn more money?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> There has to be something clear and definable that the other person gets. And, you want partnerships to be equitable, but typically if you\'re initiating the partnership and give 51%, take 49%, then there\'s a feeling of goodwill that you can\'t possibly create in any other circumstance.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Another thing that came up a lot was advertising. What role do you think ads play anymore, as something with value that ultimately gets consumers to connect with whoever is doing the advertising?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> Sadly it\'s a huge part of a lot of people’s revenue model.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Why do you say sadly?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> I think the unfortunate part is that most of the ads you see are just terrible. Banner ads and tile ads, and most people just ignore them. It\'s got to be tough for both the advertiser and the publisher trying to figure it out. I think the publishers that work with the advertisers to create something interesting, like <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft BizSpark</a>, which is about new businesses and new startups and sponsored by Microsoft but still relevant, that\'s interesting.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Trust is a huge part of the value that publishers and journalists have. This move toward sponsored content - useful, interesting, but ultimately, selling a product, it\'s a trend we’re increasingly seeing. It makes some people in the journalism world really uncomfortable. How do you see it?</strong>\n<div class=\"underwrite\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11124\" title=\"Misfit Inc.\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/misfitinc.png\" alt=\"Misfit Inc.\" width=\"250\" height=\"77\" />&nbsp;\n<h3>Instant, over time</h3>\nCreative marketing company <a href=\"http://misfit-inc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Misfit, Inc.</a> focuses on long-term relationships with clients aiming to do “something significant”.  One successful way Misfit connects causes with people is telling real time stories, while offering special access for more information.\n\n</div>\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> If it was a sponsored post on how tomatoes are really good for you and it was sponsored by tomato farmer, I might be a little wary. But if it\'s done in a way that it’s not manipulating information like that Microsoft example, it doesn’t bother me. Those startups don\'t mean anything to Microsoft. They are just paying for the ability for to me to hear about these people. Which I find interesting because I am in that space.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What if it were the East Village site covering school district policies or elections?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> It depends how it\'s done. It\'s hard to write rules because a lot of it\'s just intuitive. You know if you see it. You look at something and you know there\'s something wrong there. If <a href=\"http://thebeannyc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bean</a>, the local franchise coffee shop, sponsored a series on the East Village site about something having to do with coffee, I wouldn’t necessarily distrust that.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Is that because you like The Bean and support The Bean?</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> I think it\'s because I like and support The Bean and because The Bean is local.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Thank you.</strong>\n\n<strong>AJ Leon:</strong> It was a fun conversation. And both those threads were absolutely fascinating.\n\n<em>Have you been inspired with useful insight for journalism or publishing from someone in another industry? What did you learn, how did it work for you, and who or what led you to try it? Comment here to contribute your wisdom and help expand this living knowledge base.</em>', 'JA Interview: Fresh ideas for publishers from beyond the usual suspects. The promise of real-time storytelling to up community donation and profitability', 'JA interview goes beyond the usual suspects, offering business insights from global campaigners on building village loyalty one story at a time.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-interview-fresh-ideas-for-publishers-from-beyond-the-usual-suspects-the-promise-of-real-time-storytelling-to-up-community-donation-and-profitability', '', '', '2012-07-25 16:27:19', '2012-07-25 23:27:19', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11102', 0, 'post', '', 3),
(11141, 3, '2012-07-26 10:18:34', '2012-07-26 17:18:34', 'Two new tools to improve community reports, lessons from a seven-year startup, a JA network member broadening innovation\'s reach, and why many publishers struggle to monetize data.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.oregonbusiness.com/articles/116-july-august-2012/7702-the-divide\">The divide</a>\nJA network member Mike Green hailed for his work to spread innovation into African American communities. “No one in recent memory has come out with such articulate, explicit connections.”\n\n<a href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/07/13/new-tool-helps-publishers-find-national-stories-to-localize/ \">New Tool Helps Publishers Find National Stories to Localize</a>\nStart with Google news, add tools to extract names and ID locations. Voila! A beta app to get local publishers fresh ideas, including stories that “satisfy consumer demand...and can be monetized.”\n\n<a href=\"http://knowledge.ashoka.org/search-%E2%80%9C500-year-plan%E2%80%9D-achieving-news-literacy \">In Search of a “500-Year Plan” for Achieving News Literacy</a>\nMedia innovator Fabrice Florin hands his “separate fact from fiction” nonprofit to Poynter. Four lessons learned along the way.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/the-guardian-formalizes-audience-curation-with-smarttakes/ \">The Guardian formalizes audience curation with #smarttakes</a>\n“If nothing else, The Guardian is persistent in its desire to ask the public for help with its journalism.” Here’s an idea any publisher might borrow.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.emediavitals.com/content/why-managing-monetizing-audience-data-so-hard \">Why is managing and monetizing audience data so hard?</a>\nTwo new studies give insight to this vital question that publishers wrestle with constantly.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/a-record-amount-of-tv-news-last-year-annual-rtdna-study-finds_b54861\">A Record Amount of TV News Last Year, Annual RTDNA Study Finds</a>\nMinutes of local TV news rises, is predicted to climb. “The percentage of news directors expecting to cut news has always been low, but this is the first time since 1997 that it’s been zero.”', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: July 19 – August 6, 2012', 'Two new tools to improve community reports, lessons from a seven-year startup, a JA network member broadening innovation\'s reach, and why many publishers struggle to monetize data.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-july-19-aug-6', '', '', '2012-07-26 10:18:34', '2012-07-26 17:18:34', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11141', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11168, 3, '2012-07-12 11:37:30', '2012-07-12 18:37:30', 'YouTube\'s tool to protect sources, tips to live tweet, and thoughts from indie publishers on how to best use SEO. Plus, journalism skills in demand and AP\'s new print project.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect Dissidents:... <a href=\"http://t.co/OPZseR1G\" title=\"http://bit.ly/NzUWKH\">bit.ly/NzUWKH</a></p>&mdash; ONI News (@ONInews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ONInews/status/225702097650339840\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-18T21:22:28+00:00\">July 18, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523HowTo\">#HowTo</a> live-tweet from an event <a href=\"http://t.co/hhMZXVo8\" title=\"http://bit.ly/PVGJxp\">bit.ly/PVGJxp</a> r/t</p>&mdash; TweetSmarter (@TweetSmarter) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TweetSmarter/status/225326800941760512\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-17T20:31:10+00:00\">July 17, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The Return of the Human: Why Tech Companies Are Tapping <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523Journalism\">#Journalism</a> Talent <a href=\"http://t.co/DpNCbMqX\" title=\"http://to.pbs.org/SHFqjl\">to.pbs.org/SHFqjl</a></p>&mdash; NewsResearch (@NewsResearch) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NewsResearch/status/225675826824372224\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-18T19:38:04+00:00\">July 18, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>RT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/niemanlab\">niemanlab</a>: At a time when “digital first” is the slogan du jour at newspapers, the @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/AP\">AP</a> offers a print product <a href=\"http://t.co/Gy6NU8Nr\" title=\"http://nie.mn/NtBXEr\">nie.mn/NtBXEr</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/225560763291545601\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-18T12:00:51+00:00\">July 18, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Can SEO fuel stronger community journalism? Lots of ideas from independent publishers. New <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523mybxb\">#mybxb</a> post by @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/saduros\">saduros</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/SBqyJpwi\" title=\"http://bit.ly/Oc2S5v\">bit.ly/Oc2S5v</a></p>&mdash; blockbyblock (@mybxb) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mybxb/status/225916152973516801\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-19T11:33:02+00:00\">July 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: July 16 - July 22, 2012', 'YouTube\'s tool to protects sources, tips to live tweet, and thoughts from indie publishers on how to best use SEO. Plus, journalism skills in demand and AP\'s new print project.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-july-16-july-22-2012', '', '', '2012-07-12 11:37:30', '2012-07-12 18:37:30', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11168', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11235, 3, '2012-07-26 16:35:28', '2012-07-26 23:35:28', 'Twitter keepers this week: increasing the value of images online, two views of the new newsroom, \"ballsy\" community storytelling and more Journatic fallout.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Stipple Delivers the Missing Link in Image-Based Commerce via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/adagedigital\"><s>@</s><b>adagedigital</b></a> <a href=\"http://t.co/3LZMmDaY\" title=\"http://bit.ly/OlUtyg\">bit.ly/OlUtyg</a></p>&mdash; Kence Anderson (@kenceanderson) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/kenceanderson/status/228507346094149633\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-26T15:09:31+00:00\">July 26, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>MT <a href=\"https://twitter.com/davidrandles\"><s>@</s><b>davidrandles</b></a>: Starting a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\"><s>#</s><b>journalism</b></a> career during a reporting revolution. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23digijourno\"><s>#</s><b>digijourno</b></a> <a href=\"http://t.co/vQaE3c3V\" title=\"http://blog.storyful.com/2012/07/25/the-future-of-news-kicking-off-a-career-in-journalism-during-a-reporting-revolution/#.UBBfQol5mc1\">blog.storyful.com/2012/07/25/the…</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/228580855822577665\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-26T20:01:37+00:00\">July 26, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A community <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23storytelling\"><s>#</s><b>storytelling</b></a> venture hopes to supplement good <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\"><s>#</s><b>journalism</b></a> <a href=\"http://t.co/SURQOC1A\" title=\"http://kng.ht/MHeb9y\">kng.ht/MHeb9y</a> v <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cjr\"><s>@</s><b>cjr</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jskstanford\"><s>@</s><b>jskstanford</b></a> ht <a href=\"https://twitter.com/paulaelliskf\"><s>@</s><b>paulaelliskf</b></a></p>&mdash; Knight Foundation (@knightfdn) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/knightfdn/status/228233410659885056\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-25T21:01:00+00:00\">July 25, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A look at Twitter, Reddit and the newsroom of the future | <a href=\"http://t.co/3bIovOcE\" title=\"http://buff.ly/MkCvfi\">buff.ly/MkCvfi</a></p>&mdash; John Bergin (@theburgerman) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/theburgerman/status/225772109178232833\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-19T02:00:40+00:00\">July 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How hyperlocal sites handle micro-news in their communities <a href=\"http://t.co/eFggLlD0\" title=\"http://bit.ly/PnH0qw\">bit.ly/PnH0qw</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/howardowens\"><s>@</s><b>howardowens</b></a>, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/westseattleblog\"><s>@</s><b>westseattleblog</b></a>\'s Tracy Record explain.</p>&mdash; Poynter (@Poynter) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Poynter/status/226100355296022529\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-19T23:45:00+00:00\">July 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: July 23 - July 29, 2012', 'Twitter keepers this week: increasing the value of images online, two views of the new newsroom, \"ballsy\" community storytelling and more Journatic fallout.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-july-23-july-29-2012', '', '', '2012-07-26 16:35:28', '2012-07-26 23:35:28', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11235', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11295, 3, '2012-08-07 11:13:22', '2012-08-07 18:13:22', 'Twitter\'s new, unscientific political pulse, inspiration in the origins of Radio Lab, practical ad tools, verification virtues, and a thick journalism blogroll to help refresh your reading list.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Twitter measures the mood of the nation with the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/twitter\"><s>@</s><b>twitter</b></a> Political Index | <a href=\"http://t.co/rIz68QMN\" title=\"http://bit.ly/Qf83og\">bit.ly/Qf83og</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23socialmedia\"><s>#</s><b>socialmedia</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23politics\"><s>#</s><b>politics</b></a></p>&mdash; Stephen Vujevich (@PRKingGarage) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PRKingGarage/status/230719717495676928\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-01T17:40:41+00:00\">August 1, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>100 Best Blogs for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Journalism\"><s>#</s><b>Journalism</b></a> Students <a href=\"http://t.co/0nrVad6h\" title=\"http://bit.ly/T6vrnZ\">bit.ly/T6vrnZ</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23jschool\"><s>#</s><b>jschool</b></a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/231903637478203393\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-05T00:05:10+00:00\">August 5, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>.<a href=\"https://twitter.com/jadabumrad\"><s>@</s><b>jadabumrad</b></a> on storytelling, the adventurous <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\"><s>#</s><b>journalism</b></a> \"gut churn,\" &amp; how <a href=\"https://twitter.com/radiolab\"><s>@</s><b>radiolab</b></a> started: <a href=\"http://t.co/nS2dPqZV\" title=\"http://bit.ly/MNf3HS\">bit.ly/MNf3HS</a> (via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/transom_org\"><s>@</s><b>transom_org</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/otm\"><s>@</s><b>otm</b></a>)</p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/229653914939695105\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-29T19:05:34+00:00\">July 29, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Data Integrity and Presentation — Journalism, Verification, Skepticism, and the Age of Haste « The Scholarly Kitchen <a href=\"http://t.co/77Ibfx8Z\" title=\"http://ow.ly/cGJR7\">ow.ly/cGJR7</a></p>&mdash; Digital Journalism (@mututemple) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mututemple/status/231038172463783936\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-02T14:46:07+00:00\">August 2, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>On Street Fight: 7 Mobile Ad Networks for Local Publishers <a href=\"http://t.co/XRhF0n7D\" title=\"http://bit.ly/OyuHZp\">bit.ly/OyuHZp</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/xad\"><s>@</s><b>xad</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/vervewireless\"><s>@</s><b>vervewireless</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/admob\"><s>@</s><b>admob</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/chitika\"><s>@</s><b>chitika</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sensenetworks\"><s>@</s><b>sensenetworks</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/inmobi\"><s>@</s><b>inmobi</b></a></p>&mdash; Street Fight (@streetfightmag) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/streetfightmag/status/230309807641468929\" data-datetime=\"2012-07-31T14:31:51+00:00\">July 31, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: July 30 - August 4, 2012', 'Twitter\'s new, unscientific political pulse, inspiration in the origins of Radio Lab, practical ad tools, verification virtues, and a thick journalism blogroll to help refresh your reading list. ', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-july-30-august-4-2012', '', '', '2012-08-07 11:13:22', '2012-08-07 18:13:22', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11295', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11329, 17, '2012-08-10 11:33:36', '2012-08-10 18:33:36', '[caption id=\"attachment_11424\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" caption=\"ProPublica managing editor Stephen Engelberg at the University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center. Image: Lisa Skube.\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-11424\" title=\"Stephen Engelberg\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/StephenE1-250x216.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Engelberg\" width=\"250\" height=\"216\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Raising money, gaining audience, having impact. Despite a ten million dollar annual budget, 34 reporters and partnerships with multiple major news organizations, <a title=\"ProPublica\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica</a> faces similar sustainability issues as many startup publishers. ProPublica’s managing editor (set to become editor-in-chief early next year) Stephen Engelberg spoke with a couple dozen journalists at the <a title=\"University of Oregon\'s Turnbull Center\" href=\"http://journalism.uoregon.edu/turnbull/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center</a> in Portland this week. Here are his views on some of the major challenges investigative, nonprofit news organizations face today.</em></p>\nStephen Engelberg had never done any fundraising before becoming second-in-command at <a title=\"ProPublica\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica</a>, the high-profile, nonprofit, investigative news organization set up in 2007. He didn’t have to right away; for the first three years ProPublica received ten million dollars a year from a foundation set up by Herb and Marion Sandler with their earnings from the savings and loan industry. ProPublica’s budget has remained the same, but the <a title=\"Sandler Foundation\" href=\"http://www.sandlerfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandler Foundation</a> share fell to half last year. As Engelberg prepares to lead the first online-only news organization to win a Pulitzer Prize, money, branding, the expectations of donors and making an impact are on his mind.<!--more-->\n<h3>Money: A little from many or a lot from a few?</h3>\nMost donations to ProPublica come as large sums from a few places. “We’re not like NPR,” Engelberg told the group gathered at the University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center, noting ProPublica doesn’t have the infrastructure to “bludgeon” people during around-the-clock fund drives. But he’d like to increase the proportion of small donations from many people.\n\nBuilding that broad base is a challenge. Although disclosing high salaries – the current editor-in-chief earned more than half a million dollars in 2010 – as nonprofits are required to was a new practice to him, Engelberg thinks that doesn’t undermine asking people earning less for contributions.  “You live in a 501c3 world, you’re going to be publishing all kinds of information that would not normally be public,” he said. “That said, a number of us are now doing it, and it doesn’t seem to have terrifically harmed our ability to raise money. People obviously look at what we publish and they draw their own conclusions.”\n\nA bigger risk is big donors. Engelberg told of one person who had given a \"large\" sum of money, but was so angry with a <a title=\"A ProPublica Report\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/how-democrats-fooled-californias-redistricting-commission\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica report</a> on how California’s Democrats got around new, nonpartisan redistricting rules that he emailed saying he was going to take the money back. Eventually, he changed his mind. Engelberg suggested a broader base of donors would change the game. “If we had a million people each giving two dollars and we got ten of them angry at us, that would be one thing,” he said. “If you have the set up that we have and you get ten of them angry at you it’s potentially something you’ve got to worry about.”\n<div class=\"underwrite\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 1em;\">\n\n<img title=\"“ProPublica\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/propublica-logo.png\" alt=\"ProPublica Logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"109\" align=\"left\" />\n<h3>Always Investigating</h3>\n<a title=\"ProPublica\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica</a> was established in 2007 as a nonprofit newsroom to report in the public interest. Its mission: To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.\n\n</div>\n<h3>Branding and other challenges of collaboration</h3>\nProPublica sought <a title=\"publishing partners\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/about/partners/\" target=\"_blank\">publishing partners</a> from the start. “When no one had heard of ProPublica, it was useful to work with established organizations,” Engelberg said. “We’d give them free content, and partner on virtually any level.”  But after the organization won its <a title=\"first Pulitzer\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/awards/item/pulitzer-prize-in-investigative-reporting-deadly-choices-at-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\">first Pulitzer</a>, Engelberg said his board of directors wondered why the winning story hadn’t been more prominently branded ProPublica when <a title=\"it appeared\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30doctors.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">it appeared</a> in The New York Times Magazine.\n\nHe also acknowledged that working closely with other news organizations can be difficult, especially if the essence of a story is at stake. He characterized ProPublica’s stance this way: “We always said that if the editing process really got out of control, we would take our marbles and go home.” Apparently, that’s not happened yet, just come close a few times. In response to disagreements during joint editing, Engelberg says he has tried to learn what other media outlets need to tell the story their way. “If you’re going to work with CNN, it’s going to be a CNN story,” he told the group of journalists. “I try to say to myself, okay, when is this ‘we’re trying to fit the organizations needs and it’s okay’ and when is it frankly not okay?”\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: -10px;\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h3>Donors and deliverables</h3>\n“I love this word,” Engelberg said. “Deliverables. What are you going to do for me?” He says he learned that foundation basic after he entered the nonprofit world.  And he says that just doesn’t work for journalism. “You want a certain level of editorial independence and they want a deliverable. That’s a clear tension.”\n\nTransparency is one answer. “I think you have to be very, very, very transparent,” Engelberg said. As an example, he mentioned adding a footnote to <a title=\"a story\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-investigation-of-leading-republican-money-man-sheldon-adelson\" target=\"_blank\">a story</a> ProPublica co-published with <a title=\"PBS Frontline\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS Frontline</a> and Berekely’s <a title=\"Investigative Reporting Program\" href=\"http://journalism.berkeley.edu/program/investigative/\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program</a> (IRP) about a federal investigation into a business run by Sheldon Adelson, a major Republican donor who supports a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Some IRP support comes from a foundation that supports a two-state solution. The footnote doesn’t offer that level of transparency, however; it only mentions the foundation name.\n\nAnother challenge in nonprofit culture Engelberg has found is the amount of time foundations traditionally keep supporting any given organization. As experienced nonprofits know, many funders push projects they help start to become self-sustaining within a few years. Engelberg predicts that financial model is “probably not” going to work in investigative journalism because the costs of creation are higher than what people are willing to pay for the product.\n\nSo will foundations financially support editorial independence, and will they do it for years?  Engelberg thinks so. “When you have donor-driven journalism, we’re not fooling anybody,” he said. “I believe that over time we can persuade people in the world of philanthropy that maybe this animal is a little bit different.”\n<div class=\"underwrite\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\">\n<h3>About Steve Engelberg</h3>\nIn January 2013, Stephen Engelberg will move from managing editor to editor-in-chief of ProPublica.\n\nBefore joining the nonprofit, he worked as managing editor of <a href=\"http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/\" target=\"_blank\">The Oregonian</a> and reported for nearly two decades for <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times</a>. His work has focused on investigative reporting since 1996.\n\n</div>\n<h3>Investigating for impact</h3>\nMany people ask where ProPublica gets story ideas, Engelberg said, but a more crucial question for the organization is where to place them. He wanted a 2011 <a title=\"story about racial discrimination in presidential pardons\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/shades-of-mercy-presidential-forgiveness-heavily-favors-whites\" target=\"_blank\">story about racial discrimination in presidential pardons</a> to be published in The Washington Post, where the U.S. Attorney General and the White House would see it. (The story <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/propublica-review-of-pardons-in-past-decade-shows-process-heavily-favored-whites/2011/11/23/gIQAElnVQO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">did appear</a> in The Post. It did not trigger the immediate outcry Engelberg had expected, but recently President Obama requested <a href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/obama-wants-review-of-prisoners-commutation-request\">a review</a> of the pardons process.) In 2008, Engelberg cold-called the editor of the Albany Times-Union to offer a free <a title=\"piece investigating safety claims of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) industry\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/new-yorks-gas-rush-poses-environmental-threat-722\" target=\"_blank\">piece investigating safety claims of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) industry</a> because ProPublica knew New York was considering permitting fracking near the watershed that supplies New York City’s taps. The piece ran one July morning shortly before a decision was due. The governor nixed drilling that afternoon. “Sometimes you can get impact by reaching a lot of people,” Engelberg said. “Sometimes you get impact by reaching the right people.”\n\nBut to reach anyone, news organizations need to bring in revenue. Engelberg senses that the premium investors place on high site traffic and hits is shifting to include an understanding that news organizations need loyalty to survive. And to earn loyalty, he said, journalists must give people a reason to pay attention to their work. “There has to be something at the core that’s different from what you could get anywhere else.”\n\nThat necessity makes Engelberg stay optimistic. “This may shake out to be a Golden Age of investigative reporting,” he said, as serious players seek to distinguish themselves from others.\n<h3>How do you say ProPublica anyway?</h3>\n<a href=\"http://www.propublica.org/about/frequently-asked-questions/\" target=\"_blank\">Officially</a>, the organization doesn’t care. Personally, Engelberg prefers “pro-PUB”, although he thinks his high school Latin teacher would choose “pro-POOB.” He claims that an applicant for a copy editor position once touted her attention to detail as a perfect match for ProPubic. She did not get the job.', 'JA publisher profile with ProPublica’s Stephen Engelberg: “This may shake out to be a Golden Age of investigative reporting.”', '“Sometimes you can get impact by reaching a lot of people, sometimes you get impact by reaching the right people.” ProPublica\'s Stephen Engelberg on purpose, money, and nonprofit news.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-publisher-profile-propublicas-stephen-engelberg-golden-age-of-investigative-reporting', '', '', '2012-08-10 11:33:36', '2012-08-10 18:33:36', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11329', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11523, 3, '2012-08-13 16:52:35', '2012-08-13 23:52:35', '<blockquote>The new issue of Nieman Reports includes an exhaustive cover package about the craft of verification.\n\nThe issue includes contributions from journalists with Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, and Storyful, among other outlets. Incoming New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan also contributed a piece.\n\nThe articles deliver advice, case studies and insight into what it’s like to verify information flowing in from social networks and a multitude of other sources.\n\nI was honored to write an introductory essay for the package. I attempted to outline some of the challenges and opportunities presented by today’s decentralized, democratized and socialized media world...\n\nReading through the different articles, I was struck by how much of the advice overlapped; the verification advice from the BBC’s User Generated Content Hub, Storyful’s Mark Little, AP’s Santiago Lyon and CNN iReport’s Lila King all hit similar points.\n\nThat’s a good thing.\n\nIt suggests that, even amid the rapidly changing world of journalism and citizen media, there are new best practices being applied across newsrooms. We have a sense of what’s working, and a productive way to do this work.\n\nAs a result, this issue’s collection of checklists, case studies and other tips is something of a blueprint for journalists looking to build their skills in this area, or organizations trying to establish policies and procedures for vetting information. It’s a state of the art crib sheet of best practices.\n\nOne key piece of advice for verifying user generated content that’s repeated over and over again may seem obvious but is too often ignored: always contact the person who uploaded or provided the material. In other words, check the source as much as the information...\n\nAnother theme in the package is uncertainty. Verification may seem like an exact science, but it usually comes down to collecting as much information as possible and practicing triangulation to make an informed decision. There is always the risk that you make the wrong call, or act too soon. Errors are a constant concern, and a fact of life.\"\n<strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/category/latest-news/regret-the-error/\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter\'s Regret the Error</a></blockquote>', 'Truth in the Age of Social Media', 'Real newsroom practices for verifying information, including video, pictures and tweets. Specific strategies, common mistakes, tricks for finding the truth despite technological manipulation.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'truth-in-the-age-of-social-media', '', '', '2012-08-13 16:52:35', '2012-08-13 23:52:35', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11523', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11536, 3, '2012-08-08 15:37:33', '2012-08-08 22:37:33', 'A new tool to track hot topics, looking for newsrooms to test. Learn to add GIFs to your reports and love it! Where to find political ad spending now it\'s online, and urging j-schools to change.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>NewsWhip Spike: A powerful tool for tracking the world’s top trending news stories <a href=\"http://t.co/WSt37xxD\" title=\"http://tnw.to/i2xr\">tnw.to/i2xr</a> by <a href=\"https://twitter.com/psawers\"><s>@</s><b>psawers</b></a></p>&mdash; The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TheNextWeb/status/231700292033466369\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-04T10:37:09+00:00\">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How journalists can take advantage of animated GIFs in their storytelling <a href=\"http://t.co/WTRUWtJA\" title=\"http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/183802/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-animated-gifs-really/\">poynter.org/how-tos/newsga…</a></p>&mdash; OR Magazine (@ORmagazine) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ORmagazine/status/233674944259694592\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-09T21:23:42+00:00\">August 9, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The Future Of News: New Startups Like NewsCred, NewsLook And Upworthy Are Succeeding At Syndication <a href=\"http://t.co/IBNEKwi8\" title=\"http://buff.ly/PzBrB5\">buff.ly/PzBrB5</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23journalism\"><s>#</s><b>journalism</b></a></p>&mdash; J Hamilton-Mascioli (@jason_hamiltonm) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jason_hamiltonm/status/232613285348913153\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-06T23:05:03+00:00\">August 6, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>-- TV political ad spending now available online: <a href=\"http://t.co/QxlQ1M9E\" title=\"http://is.gd/d5nMfj\">is.gd/d5nMfj</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/brhook\"><s>@</s><b>brhook</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/fcc\"><s>@</s><b>fcc</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sunfoundation\"><s>@</s><b>sunfoundation</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23TV\"><s>#</s><b>TV</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23broadcasting\"><s>#</s><b>broadcasting</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23political\"><s>#</s><b>political</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ads\"><s>#</s><b>ads</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23data\"><s>#</s><b>data</b></a></p>&mdash; Brian R. Hook (@BRHook) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/BRHook/status/231483319387308032\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-03T20:14:58+00:00\">August 3, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>An Open Letter to America\'s University Presidents <a href=\"http://t.co/uAzjs5hl\" title=\"http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/other/open-letter-americas-university-presidents/\">knightfoundation.org/press-room/oth…</a> via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/knightfdn\"><s>@</s><b>knightfdn</b></a></p>&mdash; Kelly Fincham (@kellyfincham) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/kellyfincham/status/232505894603210755\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-06T15:58:19+00:00\">August 6, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: August 5 - August 11, 2012', 'A new tool to track hot topics, looking for newsrooms to test. Learn to add GIFs to your reports and love it! Where to find political ad spending now it\'s online, and urging j-schools to change.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-august-5-august-11-2012', '', '', '2012-08-08 15:37:33', '2012-08-08 22:37:33', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11536', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(11575, 3, '2012-08-14 13:19:42', '2012-08-14 20:19:42', '<blockquote>The accelerating speed of technological developments requires a concerted  effort to educate the public, policymakers and journalists about the promise held by the state’s expanding broadband infrastructure.\n\nFrom rural towns to the state Capitol, public officials must understand the role of technology in facilitating an informed citizenry, driving economic development and shaping public education systems. If public officials, news media and communities do not take it upon themselves to learn about and grow with technology, then they effectively perpetuate the digital divide through inaction. As a result, the state may experience a greater separation between its most digitally informed citizens and cities, and those trailing in the wake of technological advances.\n\nFurther, emerging technology has the capacity to provide information, but  news  media are needed to curate that information, provide context and produce comprehensible content for rural communities. Indeed, more and more citizens are accessing state news online even as newsrooms at legacy media have shrunk.\n\nIn rural Washington, local news remains the backbone of community journalism.  As broadband access and adoption continues to spread, rural journalists can  make themselves even more indispensable to their communities. Rural journalists should routinely share best practices with each other and seek ways to receive new digital training in partnership with other professional media and the state’s journalism educators. They form the core of informed, literate rural communities in Washington.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a id=\"internal-source-marker_0.7290099283563357\" title=\"Murrow Rural Information Initiative\" href=\"http://socialcapitalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MURROW-RURAL-INFO-INITIATIVE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Murrow Rural Information Initiative</a></blockquote>', 'The Murrow Rural Information Initiative: Access, Digital Citizenship, and the Obligations of the Washington State Information Sector', 'Kickstarting a fight against Washington State\'s \"information ghettos\" where \"vast areas of the state are starved\" of relevant local news. \"The stakes go...to the heart of the democratic process.\"', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'the-murrow-rural-information-initiative-access-digital-citizenship-and-the-obligations-of-the-washington-state-information-sector', '', '', '2012-08-14 13:19:42', '2012-08-14 20:19:42', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11575', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11596, 3, '2012-08-16 16:07:50', '2012-08-16 23:07:50', '<blockquote>With journalism entrepreneurs launching local news startups at a rapid pace, the local news landscape is evolving ­– and so are the rules of the road guiding ethical decisions.\n\nWhere a bright ethical line once separated a newsroom from its business operations, one person now often wears multiple hats, as editor, business manager and grants writer. Site publishers navigate new kinds of critical decisions daily. This guide examines a number of them. You can click to any topic in any order. Or, you can cruise through the Table of Contents.\n\nOn every page you\'ll find a box that says, \"Share your story.\" We invite you to weigh in with an ethical problem you faced – and your solution.  Your participation will help inform a work in progress.\" <strong>Source: </strong><a title=\"Rules of the Road: Navigating the New Ethics of Local Journalism\" href=\"http://www.j-lab.org/tools/learning/ethics\" target=\"_blank\">J-Lab</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>Fifteen site operators and one digital ethicist candidly discuss dilemmas they\'ve confronted and the solutions they\'ve reached. The good news, [J-Lab Executive Director Jan] Schaffer said, is that the internal compasses of community news site founders are working well. Indeed, many actually draw more stringent rules for behavior than traditional news organizations do.\n\n\"We\'ve seen how entrepreneurial news startups are trying to responsibly fill gaps in investigative journalism. With this publication, we see how local news startups are meeting new challenges of covering community news,\" said Bob Ross, president and CEO of Ethics and Excellence Journalism Foundation.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"New Ethics to Local News Sites\" href=\"http://www.j-lab.org/about/press-releases/new-ethics-for-local-news-sites/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Lab</a></blockquote>', 'Rules of the Road: Navigating the New Ethics of Local Journalism', 'Real experiences of news entrepreneurs make J-Lab\'s living ethics guide a smart source to work through new challenges. Including sections on police, privacy, advertising and conversation.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'rules-of-the-road-navigating-the-new-ethics-of-local-journalism', '', '', '2012-08-16 16:07:50', '2012-08-16 23:07:50', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11596', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11622, 3, '2012-08-17 12:04:45', '2012-08-17 19:04:45', '<blockquote>A new software tool developed by JJCS gives news organizations a direct means to facilitate community engagement and contribution in a time when many are struggling to find a way to efficiently and inexpensively cover hyperlocal.\n\n<a href=\"http://jjcs.com/JReporter.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JReporter</strong></a>, an application that works with the Android and iOS interfaces, allows a licensing media company to solicit content, whether it is text, video, audio or stills, from local citizens via geo-targeted messages. The user can then submit content to the news organization through the app, which integrates with the media company’s CMS.\n\nThe app offers local news organizations inexpensive content that they can subsequently turn around and monetize through digital ads. The app will ideally allow media outlets to cover more hyperlocal events, ranging from school board meetings to high school football games, that may otherwise not be cost-efficient...\n\nFrom a journalism standpoint, the application makes sense as a way to foster community engagement and promote the local media’s role as the “place where the community comes to learn about itself” — a phrase JJCS has trademarked. At the very least, this content can be used to develop a searchable archive. But whether the app can develop a strong enough user base to drive ad revenue, both via resulting Web content and directly on the mobile app, through proximity-based messages from local merchants, will ultimately determine its success.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Street Fight Daily - JReporter\" href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/07/27/jreporter-app-promises-local-news-orgs-cheap-content-revenue-opportunities/\" target=\"_blank\">Street Fight Daily</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>News organizations face four problems:\n\nDwindling Reporting Staff •  Lack of Content Ownership\nIneffective Revenue Streams • Lackluster Customer Engagement\n\nJReporter makes it easy for customers and reporters to send breaking news video,\nstills and audio directly into your editorial content management system with the\ncorrect ancillary information (metadata) and a release.\n\nIn the today’s world, one of your customers is at every news event with a smart\nphone and who will, if it’s easy, give you coverage. JReporter is easy to use and\nensures that you know who is sending you content, so that you can follow up,  get\nadditional information, and interview the eyewitness...\n\nCloud based and advertising supported, JReporter ensures high availability and\nlow cost of entry. JReporter does not require any changes to your current working\nenvironment and can be ready to go in no time.\n\nJReporter includes embedded revenue opportunities and is white labeled for\nsponsorship, branding or embedding.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"JReporter Fact Sheet\" href=\"http://jjcs.com/PDFs/JReporterFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">JReporter</a></blockquote>', 'JReporter', 'A mobile platform aiming to up engagement, improve citizen reporting and increase revenue by building in ad space, verification tools, and automatic releases on content sent right to your system.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'j-reporter', '', '', '2012-08-17 12:04:45', '2012-08-17 19:04:45', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11622', 0, 'post', '', 57),
(11643, 3, '2012-08-17 12:00:12', '2012-08-17 19:00:12', 'Competing on user engagement, connecting with readers to push stories  forward, and a CEO learning the value of community news. Plus an  initiative to end an information \"ghetto.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/morning_roundup/2012/08/huffington-post-relaunches-general.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post relaunches General Mills’ ‘Live Better’ website\n</a>A GM site with a Huff Post staffer “selecting stories\" reveals  advertisers\' deep push toward branded content. Would doing this locally  offer revenue opportunities or risk trust and transparency?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/20401/user-engagement-is-digital-mantra-in-mich?utm_source=NetNewsCheck-rss&amp;utm_medium=originals&amp;utm_campaign=originals-User-Engagement-Is-Digital-Mantra-In-Mich-\" target=\"_blank\">User Engagement Is Digital Mantra In Mich.\n</a>A useful use case for local publishers anywhere: The fierce  competition to engage community in a place where \"news doesn’t break so  much as pace itself to the rhythms of heartland American life.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://socialcapitalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MURROW-RURAL-INFO-INITIATIVE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Murrow Rural Information Initiative\n</a>Finding itself in “a digital state with a rural information ghetto,\"  Washington State University plans citizen training, a “Murrow News  Barometer” and teaching the value of local news.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/community-relations/the-washington-post-launches-crowdsourcing-platform/2012/08/01/gJQAYm6fPX_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post Launches Crowdsourcing Platform\n</a>What\'s the purpose behind your outreach? The Post’s stated goals go  deep - aiming to create \"a place for people to come together and address  a variety of challenges and thoughtful topics.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/08/02/daily-voice-ceo-on-profitability-were-far-closer-than-our-competitors/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Voice CEO: We’re ‘Far Closer’ to Profitable Than the Competition Is\n</a>Almost a year into leading a NE hyperlocal news network, Zohar  Yardeni\'s big takeaway: “I am learning how people feel about community  news. I underestimated the role it plays in people’s lives.”\n\n<a href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/03/google-takes-political-online-ads-local-allows-campaigns-to-target-congressional-districts/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29\" target=\"_blank\">Google Takes Political Online Ads Local, Allows Campaigns to Target Congressional Districts</a>\nAs political campaigns target ads ever more local with Google, how might local publishers get a piece of the political ad buy?', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: August 7 – August 16, 2012', 'Competing on user engagement, connecting with readers to push stories forward, and a CEO learning the value of community news. Plus an initiative to end an information \"ghetto.\"', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-august-7-august-16-2012', '', '', '2012-08-17 12:00:12', '2012-08-17 19:00:12', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11643', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11676, 17, '2012-08-21 16:50:40', '2012-08-21 23:50:40', '<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/\"><img title=\"Scout is a tool by Sunlight Labs. Visit their resource page on the JA\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/scout1.jpg\" alt=\"Scout is a tool by Sunlight Labs. Visit their resource page on the JA\" height=\"71\" /></a>“Useful...right away.”</h3>\n<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/konklone/\"><img title=\"Scout developer, Eric Mill, click to visit Eric\'s JA Profile\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/EricMill.jpg\" alt=\"Scout developer, Eric Mill, click to visit Eric\'s JA Profile width=\" height=\"150\" /></a>For developer <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/konklone/\">Eric Mill</a>, many goals came together in <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/\">Scout</a>. It’s a simple concept – a tool you might have expected to exist already. It helps public information flow freely – a key goal of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-sunlight-foundation/\">Sunlight</a>. And there is much more it can do. Mill says he’s proud of Scout because it’s “useful in an obvious way, right away.” Is it to you?\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Last week we kicked off a new online conversation series by talking with <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-sunlight-foundation/\">Sunlight Foundation</a> developer <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/konklone/\">Eric Mill</a> about <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/\">Scout</a>, a tool that alerts you to developments in legislation. This series is designed to help you learn more about resources you might not have had a chance to try yet, or share your insight into those that you know. To participate in or listen in on future conversations in this series, check back or follow <a href=\"http://twitter.com/journaccel\">@journaccel</a> on Twitter to see what’s coming up.</em></p>\n<em> </em>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Every couple of weeks we’ll choose from our <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\">growing collection</a> of practical tools, reports, databases, blogs, platforms, new business models and more. JA “resource Q&amp;As” go deeper into the tools and information featured on this site, bringing together both creators and those using the resource to help new iterations continue to align more closely with community interests and needs.</em></p>\nScout tracks state and federal legislation, federal regulations and speeches in Congress on subjects you choose to follow. We picked Scout for our first resource chat because it’s easy to use and offers tangible results, such as cutting research time and delivering information you want quickly and directly. Based on comments in past JA discussions, including our <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/technology/what-kind-of-election-coverage-do-you-want-to-bring-to-your-community-in-2012/\">forum on covering Election 2012</a>, journalists value tools that are straightforward and practical.<!--more-->\n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-1997\">full chat</a> about Scout’s development, life so far and future is a quick and informative read. If you’ve used  Scout and have comments to share with others, or if you have questions,  ideas, or features you’d like to see, post to the thread and those who participated will get an email notification and a chance  to respond.\n\nHere are a few highlights from the conversation:\n<ul>\n	<li>Scout’s search capabilities <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2003\">can’t yet find everything related</a>, but <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2008\">you can help</a> make it smarter!</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>You can use Scout to dig as <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2013\">deep into data</a> as you want. It operates on public APIs and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2020\">may integrate</a> with related apps in the future.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Scout\'s planned new features include tracking <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2024\">even more government documents</a> and letting you <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2025\">share your searches</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Developer Eric Mill is particularly proud of Scout <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2027\">because</a> it’s “useful in an obvious way, right away” - a <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2027\">powerful</a> tool to keep public information <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/scout/#comment-2011\">freely</a> accessible.</li>\n</ul>\nMore resource chats are coming soon! To get an early alert, <a href=\"http://twitter.com/journaccel\">follow the JA</a> on Twitter or subscribe to our newsletter. To suggest a resource for a listing or a chat, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/contact-us/\">get in touch</a> anytime.  You can create a JA profile to comment and connect with other people  you see contributing on this site by clicking on the button of your  preferred social network in the upper right hand corner of this page.  Creating or updating your profile, like you see below, is another great  way to let us know what you\'re looking for that would be helpful to you.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_11828\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"775\" caption=\"Updating your JA profile is a great way to let us know what you&#39;d like to see more of on the site, and find people who share your interests.\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-11828\" title=\"Edit your JA Profile\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/post-img_JA-Profile-Looking-for-with-circle_v3.png\" alt=\"Edit your JA Profile\" width=\"775\" height=\"467\" />[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;', 'JA Resource Q&amp;A: Sunlight’s Scout is “useful in an obvious way.”', 'Aiming to be useful and easy to use, Scout is a free tool for journalists and others to track policy as it\'s legislated and regulated. Read highlights of a live chat with Scout’s developer.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-chat-sunlights-scout-is-a-tool-useful-in-an-obvious-way', '', '', '2012-08-21 16:50:40', '2012-08-21 23:50:40', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11676', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11810, 12, '2012-08-21 13:20:47', '2012-08-21 20:20:47', 'Be a political ad watcher! Fall in love with data! Consider whether Twitter will help or hurt your political reporting! Plus shield laws and citizens, and rethinking local ads.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\'<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Twindex\"><s>#</s><b>Twindex</b></a>\' wants to gauge Election 2012\'s intensity: will it be successful? <a href=\"http://t.co/Fxa4aLqo\" title=\"http://bit.ly/OYDmDA\">bit.ly/OYDmDA</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23politics\"><s>#</s><b>politics</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23socialmedia\"><s>#</s><b>socialmedia</b></a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/235375761169723393\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-14T14:02:09+00:00\">August 14, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Great tips for working with numbers in the news by Michael Blastland <a href=\"http://t.co/TDr1qoR2\" title=\"http://ow.ly/cM3co\">ow.ly/cM3co</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ddj\"><s>#</s><b>ddj</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23opendata\"><s>#</s><b>opendata</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23media\"><s>#</s><b>media</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23news\"><s>#</s><b>news</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ddjbook\"><s>#</s><b>ddjbook</b></a></p>&mdash; DDJ (@ddjournalism) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ddjournalism/status/232764349947719680\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-07T09:05:20+00:00\">August 7, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Independent <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23mybxb\"><s>#</s><b>mybxb</b></a> publishers rethink approach to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23local\"><s>#</s><b>local</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23advertising\"><s>#</s><b>advertising</b></a>.<a href=\"http://t.co/iCbXmTGd\" title=\"http://bit.ly/P78Szm\">bit.ly/P78Szm</a></p>&mdash; blockbyblock (@mybxb) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mybxb/status/234978192291688448\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-13T11:42:21+00:00\">August 13, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>On acts of journalism, social media, credentialing, shield laws and press freedom <a href=\"http://t.co/9xNzyCVc\" title=\"http://goo.gl/8k7DI\">goo.gl/8k7DI</a> by <a href=\"https://twitter.com/digiphile\"><s>@</s><b>digiphile</b></a></p>&mdash; Jose Zamora (@jczamora) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jczamora/status/234001405747265536\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-10T19:00:57+00:00\">August 10, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Seeking Political Ad Sleuths <a href=\"http://t.co/U9dokEAE\" title=\"http://shar.es/vKjwQ\">shar.es/vKjwQ</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/freepress\"><s>@</s><b>freepress</b></a> &amp; allies work w/ colleges-Who’s behind political ads? via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/aderryberry\"><s>@</s><b>aderryberry</b></a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23jschool\"><s>#</s><b>jschool</b></a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/235435944591900672\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-14T18:01:18+00:00\">August 14, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: August 12 - August 18, 2012', 'Be a political ad watcher! Fall in love with data! Consider whether Twitter will help or hurt your political reporting! Plus shield laws and citizens, and rethinking local ads.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-august-12-august-18-2012', '', '', '2012-08-21 13:20:47', '2012-08-21 20:20:47', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11810', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12359, 3, '2012-08-24 11:42:25', '2012-08-24 18:42:25', '<blockquote>There are thousands of social media accounts claiming to be associated with the federal government, but how do you know which are real? It\'s relatively easy to set up a Twitter account or Facebook profile claiming government connections that aren\'t real.\n\nOfficials at the General Services Administration want to to aid citizens with a new tool to allow them to find out if a given account is legit.\n\nAvailable on HowTo.gov, GSA’s Social Media Registry supports more than 20 of the most common social media platforms. Its main purpose is three-fold:\n\nThe public will be able to verify that a social media account is run by the government, or spot a fake.\n\nThe registry will help manage all these accounts governmentwide by offering application programming interfaces that allow agencies to get data about their agencies.\n\nFinally, the registry serves as a one-stop shop that eliminates the need for different solutions for each agency.\n\nThe database is build in Ruby on Rails -- an open-source web framework -- and officials said the code that powers the registry is open source and available on GitHub. Officials said they teamed with industry partners such as Sunlight Labs, Code for America and Expert Labs to make the registry open and sharable...\n\nOnly accounts of official U.S. government agencies, organizations or programs will be tracked by the registry. Government employees will be able to register accounts managed by federal agencies, elected officials, members of the president’s cabinet and heads of agencies. No personal, employee or other types of social media accounts will be included.\" <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://fcw.com/articles/2012/08/17/gsa-social-media-registry.aspx\">Federal Computer Week</a></blockquote>', 'Verify U.S. Federal Government Social Media Accounts', 'Did the government really say that? In a viral world, it’s worth verifying. Use this new tool to check whether a government agency has registered a social source.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'verify-u-s-federal-government-social-media-accounts', '', '', '2012-08-24 11:42:25', '2012-08-24 18:42:25', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12359', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12360, 3, '2012-08-24 11:42:41', '2012-08-24 18:42:41', '<blockquote>The Media Law Center for Ethics and Access, originally named the Center for Privacy and the First Amendment, offers workshops and seminars in media ethics and access to government information. It provides advice and counsel for anyone — journalists, government officials or members of the public — with questions about ethics or access or related media law concerns. The Center was founded in 1991 to provide information and research on accessing government records and meetings. It was expanded in 2007 to include ethics training and to address issues of access and ethics in online journalism.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.ksumlc.com/\">Kent State University Media Law Center for Ethics and Access</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>Each September, the Poynter Institute and the Media Law Center for Ethics and Access at Kent State University host an annual ethics workshop. Topics and discussions are relevant to current trends in the media and journalism education. Presenters and panelists from varying backgrounds provide information and opinions based on personal industry experience.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.ksumlc.com/ethics-conference/\">Kent State University Media Law Center for Ethics and Access</a></blockquote>', 'Kent State Media Law Center for Ethics and Access', 'A solid resource offering expert advice, annual training and connections for further learning. Explore workshop archives for insight on ethics in sports reporting, innovation, and media values.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'kent-state-media-law-center-for-ethics-and-access', '', '', '2012-08-24 11:42:41', '2012-08-24 18:42:41', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12360', 0, 'post', '', 9),
(12361, 3, '2012-08-24 11:42:00', '2012-08-24 18:42:00', '<blockquote>PolitiFact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times and its partners to help you find the truth in politics.\n\nEvery day, <a href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/staff/\">reporters and researchers</a> from PolitiFact and its partner news organization examine statements by members of Congress, state legislators, governors, mayors, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and anyone else who speaks up in American politics. We research their statements and then rate the accuracy on our Truth-O-Meter – True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False and False. The most ridiculous falsehoods get our lowest rating, Pants on Fire...\n\nHow the Truth-O-Meter works\n\nThe heart of PolitiFact is the Truth-O-Meter, which we use to rate factual claims.\n\nThe Truth-O-Meter is based on the concept that – especially in politics - truth is not black and white.\nPolitiFact writers and editors spend considerable time researching and deliberating on our rulings. We always try to get the original statement in its full context rather than an edited form that appeared in news stories. We then divide the statement into individual claims that we check separately.\n\nWhen possible, we go to original sources to verify the claims. We look for original government reports rather than news stories. We interview impartial experts.\" <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://www.politifact.com/about/\">PolitiFact</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>You can now embed part of PolitiFact into your website. Our widgets will put the latest Truth-O-Meter and Obameter rulings on your page. They flex to fit just about any width hole you want them in. Best of all, they update dynamically, so they always contain the latest rulings.\" <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/widget/\">PolitiFact</a></blockquote>', 'Politifact’s Truth-O-Meter', 'Draw on the fact-checking prowess of Politifact and embed their national research and accuracy ratings of political claims right on your site. Inspiration for a local effort?', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'politifacts-truth-o-meter', '', '', '2012-08-24 11:42:00', '2012-08-24 18:42:00', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12361', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12362, 3, '2012-08-24 11:42:19', '2012-08-24 18:42:19', '<blockquote>Journalists want to learn new digital tools and techniques. Will they be comfortable learning those things digitally, using webinars, e-learning and self-directed classes? If online education is easier to provide than ever, are news organizations rising to the occasion?\n\nIn its search for answers, this new Knight Foundation report details the Web-survey responses of 660 active alumni from the roughly 3,000 journalists who received Knight-branded professional development within the past two years.\n<ul>\n	<li>Digital Training Comes of Age shows a growing demand for training as journalists adapt to the 21st century’s evolving media ecosystems. Journalists want more training in digital tools such as multimedia, data analysis and technology. Most give their news organizations low marks for providing training opportunities.</li>\n	<li>Digital classes are gaining popularity as a cost-effective way to reach more trainees. Significant numbers of journalists who have participated in online classes say they are as good as, or better than, conventional training in the classroom.</li>\n	<li>Training organizations are adapting to the digital age. They are providing more training online and rethinking how their programs can foster the transformation of journalism.</li>\n	<li>Professional development has impact. Training helps journalists adopt new digital tools, create change in their organizations, or find new ways to be part of the news ecosystem.</li>\n	<li>Continuing education drives change in forward-looking organizations. Training and staff development helps them achieve their goals and become more adaptive.\"<strong> Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://knightfoundation.org/publications/digital-training-comes-age\">The Knight Foundation</a></li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>Based on the 660 journalists surveyed, the <a href=\"http://knightfoundation.org/publications/digital-training-comes-age\">Knight survey identified the following 10 key points</a>:\n<ol>\n	<li>Lack of training is a major source of job dissatisfaction.</li>\n	<li>Overwhelmingly, journalists say they want more training.</li>\n	<li>Increasingly, journalists want digital-tools training.</li>\n	<li>Journalists say they aren’t getting the training they most need.</li>\n	<li>Most journalists give their news organization poor marks for training.</li>\n	<li>Journalists used their training and are likely to recommend it.</li>\n	<li>Online training is growing more popular, especially internationally.</li>\n	<li>Many journalists pay for their own training.</li>\n	<li>News organizations must become learning organizations.</li>\n	<li>Work focus shifts to digital and combined media.</li>\n</ol>\nThe survey findings show a variety of reasons why news organizations today need to spend more time and resources toward professional development of their employees and include digital learning opportunities as much as possible.\n\nThis can be achieved by creating a “learning culture” in the newsroom.\n\nThis “learning culture” must be pervasive throughout the whole organization – from the top all the way to the bottom.\n\nThere are many ways that news ventures including nonprofits can start creating this kind of culture.\"<strong> Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.npjhub.org/thehub_blog_entry/creating-a-learning-culture-in-the-newsroom\">NPJhub.org</a></blockquote>', 'Digital Training Comes of Age', 'Journos now need fluency in multimedia, data, entrepreneurship and social engagement. Use this report documenting the desire and payoff of training to build a professional development plan.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'digital-training-comes-of-age', '', '', '2012-08-24 11:42:19', '2012-08-24 18:42:19', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12362', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(12508, 17, '2012-08-29 16:03:51', '2012-08-29 23:03:51', '<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>About Ikaika Hussey</h3>\n<img src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ikaika-profile-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" /><a title=\"Ikaika Hussey\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/ikaikahussey/\" target=\"_blank\">Ikaika Hussey</a> helped start <a title=\"The Hawaii Independent\" href=\"http://hawaiiindependent.net/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hawaii Independent</a> with a handful of local journalists and activists in 2008. He previously worked in community organizing, and says he \"knew a lot of stories\" that he felt needed to be told. He says making sure to do sales along with editorial work every single day allowed The Independent to turn a profit last year. He expects another profitable year in 2012.\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><a id=\"internal-source-marker_0.996756584580746\" href=\"http://hawaiiindependent.net/\">The Hawaii Independent</a> started as a standard, albeit small, for-profit corporation five years ago. A handful of local investors put their money into the local news venture built by a group of local journalists and activists, including editor and publisher <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/ikaikahussey/\">Ikaika Hussey</a>. But after several years, Hussey went back to those investors and pitched a switch to a cooperative business model for the news organization. The change happened earlier this year; he <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/niche-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/#comment-1652\">mentioned the plans</a> during the JA forum on <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/local-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/\">local</a> and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/community/niche-news-startups-how-do-you-make-it-work-financially/\">niche</a> news sites last February. We called him recently to follow up and learned that The Hawaii Independent now offers both subscriptions and ownership, <a href=\"http://hawaiiindependent.net/coop/\">with different benefits</a>, following international <a href=\"http://hawaiiindependent.net/coop/principles/\">cooperative principles</a> and guided by organizational <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/104226285/Hawaii-Independent-Articles-of-Incorporation\">bylaws</a></em>.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Hussey is inspired by <a href=\"http://banyanproject.com/index.php?title=Main_Page\">The Banyan Project</a>, his belief that independent media must be locally owned, and a vision of community contributors building solid journalism. The Hawaii Independent was profitable last year, and Hussey intends to send all member-owners a check at the end of 2012. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.<!--more--></em></p>\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">Journalism Accelerator:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">How did you get started?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">Ikaika Hussey:</span> We started almost five years ago. It was myself, and journalists from our local weekly publication and a couple other small publications. We got started because there was a need to tell stories that weren\'t being told. I come out of a community organizing background, and my work was primarily working with reporters to understand social and political issues. So I already knew of a lot of stories that needed to be aired. And something that\'s been really dear to me is the notion of local community ownership of media. Right now in Hawaii there is a monopoly print newspaper, the <a title=\"Star Advertiser\" href=\"http://www.staradvertiser.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Advertiser</a>, which is in an alliance with the monopoly television...three television stations that work together, they sell ads on each other\'s stations and they share content. I believe strongly that we need an alternative to that. Right now in Hawaii there are only a few very small publications. We\'re the only ones that are locally owned.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">Why is community owned media important to you?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> It\'s important because Hawaii has its own history. Our own history of independence and of our own country. What\'s happened in the last hundred years has been the taking away of control over our local institutions by US national conglomerates. In the past two years, one of our newspapers bought the other one and then it was bought by a Canadian company. So there was the feeling of a loss of a local institution. We need an institution that\'s going to be here for the long haul. And I think the only way to do that is still the community owned, truly community owned institution. Not just one that\'s owned by a person of large wealth. It has to be rooted in the community. Kind of like the <a title=\"Green Bay Packers - Shareholders\" href=\"http://www.packers.com/community/shareholders.html\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers</a>.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_12566\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"724\" caption=\"University of Hawaii student Kaui Yogi participating in a May 2012 community discussion on what political issues matter most. This is one way the Hawaii Independent gathers input to frame electoral coverage.\"]<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12566\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ja-publisher-profile-the-hawaii-independent-a-profitable-co-op-rooted-in-the-community-like-the-green-bay-packers/attachment/post-img_hawaii-independent-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-12566\" title=\"Hawaii Independent publisher Ikaika Hussey\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/post-img_hawaii-independent1.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii Independent publisher Ikaika Hussey\" width=\"724\" height=\"543\" /></a>[/caption]\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">How does it work?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> People buy shares. Once they buy a share, they can elect our governing board and help us set our editorial direction. They also get discounts at businesses that we work with. We\'re building partnerships with, for instance, local art institutions. We\'re creating special opportunities for our members. It\'s pretty simple. And we\'re still very new to this. We haven\'t figured out a way to market it in a mass way. So we\'re just promoting it on our website. What I\'m really happy about, even though it\'s still a very small enterprise, is that it\'s growing on its own. I haven\'t bought ads to promote it, and every few days I see a few more people who have bought subscriptions and memberships. Which is really nice.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">When you were in the JA forum in February, you were talking about reincorporating. What changed?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> Before we were a straight C corporation, just a standard small business with a handful of community investors. We spent a lot of time actually talking with attorneys, trying to figure out a way to become a publically traded company only within the state of Hawaii. But we discovered that would be very expensive. So we decided it made a lot more sense just to reincorporate as a co-op where we could accomplish a lot of the same goals, which is broad, based local ownership.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">Most of the co-ops I\'m familiar with, like REI and food co-ops, give owners a share of the profits. Is the co-op here set up to give owners a share of profits?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> It is. And we should be able to do that. We were profitable at the end of last year, so we\'re on track to do it again this coming year.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">What kind of check do you think people are going to get back?</span>\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>A new tradition</h3>\n<img src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hawaii-independent-logo_small.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" /><a title=\"The Hawaii Independent\" href=\"http://hawaiiindependent.net/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hawaii Independent</a>, a daily, online news site, started in 2008 as a small, private corporation with a handful of local investors. In 2012 the company re-incorporated as a co-op, selling shares to the general public for $100 (payable in $5 increments.) Member/owners vote for the board of directors and share in the company profits. Publisher <a title=\"Ikaika Hussey\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/ikaikahussey/\" target=\"_blank\">Ikaika Hussey</a> says a long tradition of independence in Hawaii inspired him to embrace the co-op model.\n\n</div>\n<strong>IH</strong>: Oh, billions! (Laughs) We\'re going to give something back. I don\'t know what the dollar amount is going to be.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">Does being a co-op allow you to accept grants?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> As we\'re structured now, no. And we\'ve never accepted grants. We\'ve always run the independent as a for-profit enterprise.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">What is your secret to being profitable?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> I do sales every day. (Laughs).\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">How do you balance how much journalism and how much sales you need to do in a typical day?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> A typical day is usually lunch with a business owner, coffee with a business owner. Reading through all our local news sources. Curating stories from them. Working on individual stories that I am working on. Assigning stories to freelancers. And then going to pick up my kids.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">Do you run into conflicts of interest being in a relationship with business owners where you are trying to sell them something, and where you might need to cover them?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> No, we don\'t do a lot of coverage of local businesses. We mostly cover public policy, broadly writ. Government, civic issues. I have experienced problems where I had to think twice about what I was doing, and what it makes me want to do is both hire more journalists and hire more salespeople, so that we can more cleanly draw that line.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">Are there any challenges that you\'ve run into setting this up as a co-op that you really think people should know as they\'re considering this as an option?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> There are always challenges. I had to talk to my initial group of investors and let them know that they are no longer going to be able to make voting decisions based on the quantity of shares that they own, that it\'s going to move to one man one vote. Thankfully I\'ve been working with a group who were fine with that. In fact, they some of them really loved the idea, because their heart is in democracy and community ownership.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">What exactly do members vote on? What authority do they have?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> The principal authority is to vote on our board. That\'s kind of the same kind of power you would see in any corporation. The difference is only how the voting is structured. It\'s one man one vote, rather than using the quantity of shares to figure out how many votes you get.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000; font-weight: bold;\">What sort of influence can members have on what news is covered?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> We\'re still figuring that out. I\'d like us to start doing community gatherings where we talk about the stories which we are going to be covering, prospectively, engage the community in thinking about what are the questions that we need to ask, and then from there, going out and assigning stories and figuring out all the different pieces that need to be done. Proactive community engagement in terms of what should be news. I\'ve also wanted to do an online forum for members to talk about the stories before they\'re reported. Sort of like an editorial meeting, but having the discussion be done asynchronously online.\n\n<span style=\"color: #23996b; font-weight: bold;\">JA:</span> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold;\">Does the board of directors set editorial policy? Or is the board of directors more focused on the profitability?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">IH:</span> Our corporate board doesn\'t make editorial decisions. Right now we have an advisory editorial board, which is basically senior journalists who\'ve worked in Hawaii for years, who understand stories and they sort of advise me on where we should be looking editorially and what we should be doing. One thing I\'m building into our website is the ability for members to create their own blog, their own section of the site that they can update whenever they want to, and forms for members to post their own reports. So for instance if a member goes to a land board hearing, or any kind of public hearing, the form would have preset questions they can answer. And at the end you have the basics of a news report that our journalists can then pull from and say okay, these people who are sort of like our stringers, but they\'re our members, our eyes and ears in the community, this is what they\'ve said, this is who was at the meeting, according to folks who were there. The point I\'m trying to make is that there are ways I think to engage members constructively. I\'m less worried about influence. I really want the website itself to function sort of as a social network, to engage all these people in that editorial process. And a product of the community is solid journalism.\n\n<em>Does a cooperative business model sound like it would work for a news site in your community? In the comment thread below, please tell us what you think the challenges and opportunities might be. And if you\'re interested in the possibility of starting a news co-op, check out the recently revised <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/104226285/Hawaii-Independent-Articles-of-Incorporation\">bylaws</a> of The Hawaii Independent that Ikaika Hussey kindly shared for inspiration or guidance. </em>\n\n<a title=\"View Hawaii Independent Articles of Incorporation on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/104226285/Hawaii-Independent-Articles-of-Incorporation\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">Hawaii Independent Articles of Incorporation</a><iframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/104226285/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-ndugsoynkq9fagmov0b\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.772727272727273\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_89361\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>', 'JA publisher profile: The Hawaii Independent, a profitable co-op &quot;rooted in the community...like the Green Bay Packers.”', 'Hawaii Independent publisher Ikaika Hussey shares the philosophy and practices that make the cooperative news business he leads both profitable and productive.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-publisher-profile-the-hawaii-independent-a-profitable-co-op-rooted-in-the-community-like-the-green-bay-packers', '', '', '2012-08-29 16:03:51', '2012-08-29 23:03:51', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12508', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(12565, 3, '2012-08-28 17:18:13', '2012-08-29 00:18:13', 'How to deep-search Google, experiments in revenue, nuances of foundations funding for-profit news, tweeting your beat v. your personality and ten years of the internet in a full color graphic.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Journos: missed <a href=\"https://twitter.com/google\"><s>@</s><b>google</b></a>\'s Power Searching course? Don\'t worry, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ijnet\"><s>@</s><b>ijnet</b></a>\'s got the tips you need to know: <a href=\"http://t.co/EbC52HKX\" title=\"http://j.mp/Ps6uTT\">j.mp/Ps6uTT</a></p>&mdash; ICFJ (@ICFJ) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ICFJ/status/237662732541906944\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-20T21:29:45+00:00\">August 20, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>RT <a href=\"https://twitter.com/niemanlab\"><s>@</s><b>niemanlab</b></a>: WSJ social media director <a href=\"https://twitter.com/lheron\"><s>@</s><b>lheron</b></a> on the importance of tweeting your beat <a href=\"http://t.co/Zf83yoKA\" title=\"http://nie.mn/NF8dmp\">nie.mn/NF8dmp</a></p>&mdash; Ebyline (@Ebyline) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Ebyline/status/236111510529777664\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-16T14:45:45+00:00\">August 16, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Ad rates, events, and crowdfunding: Community news sites get innovative about revenue: <a href=\"http://t.co/vSV4MN8O\" title=\"http://j.mp/Rk2N5E\">j.mp/Rk2N5E</a> via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/kdmc\"><s>@</s><b>kdmc</b></a></p>&mdash; INN (@INN) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/INN/status/236163677038989313\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-16T18:13:02+00:00\">August 16, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The evolution of the internet in just one decade (infographic) <a href=\"http://t.co/HQ3tuB45\" title=\"http://bit.ly/NFtY4T\">bit.ly/NFtY4T</a>(via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/thechive\"><s>@</s><b>thechive</b></a>)</p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/238637394826498048\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-23T14:02:43+00:00\">August 23, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The <a href=\"https://twitter.com/fordfoundation\"><s>@</s><b>fordfoundation</b></a>\'s Jonathan Barzilay &amp; <a href=\"https://twitter.com/npr\"><s>@</s><b>npr</b></a>\'s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mlowsmith\"><s>@</s><b>mlowsmith</b></a> talk about relationship between grant givers &amp; news makers <a href=\"http://t.co/dZOV0Rra\" title=\"http://wny.cc/Sjwh1f\">wny.cc/Sjwh1f</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/238727841003474945\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-23T20:02:07+00:00\">August 23, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: August 19 - August 25, 2012', 'How to deep-search Google, experiments in revenue, nuances of foundations funding for-profit news, tweeting your beat v. your personality and ten years of the internet in a full color graphic.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-august-19-august-25-2012', '', '', '2012-08-28 17:18:13', '2012-08-29 00:18:13', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12565', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12728, 3, '2012-08-17 12:48:50', '2012-08-17 19:48:50', 'Pressures on political reporters, investigative channeling, a startup  that found the right mix of revenue, a new approach to attract local  advertising, and two timely  tales of woe and warning.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on-the-campaign-trail-i-take-it-back.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back</a>\nPolitical reporters increasingly agree to post-quote edits. How does your newsroom manage such ethical pressures?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/468/switcheroo?act=2#play\" target=\"_blank\">Forgive us our Press Passes</a>\n‘This American Life’ tells the frontline tale of how Journatic outsourced local news. Listen to this to understand why the experiment-gone-wrong is becoming a symbol of our fast-changing times.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/ifiles\" target=\"_blank\">The I Files</a>\nCollaboration and innovation: A new investigative news channel for your pitches – and to watch for inspiration and information.\n\n<a href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/08/16/will-breaking-promos-help-hyperlocals-bring-new-customers-to-smbs/\" target=\"_blank\">Will ‘Breaking Promos’ Help Hyperlocals Bring New Customers to SMBs?</a>\nLooking for local ads? Consider experimenting with a “revenue-producing idea for community news sites that may…promise publishers the power to give businesses what they seek…”\n\n<a href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-08-09/password-hackers/57015384/1\" target=\"_blank\">Hack of tech journalist reveals flaws in cloud security</a>\nA hacking story with timely reminders for reporters and publishers. How do you manage your own online security, and how do you manage your customer data?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/08/forget-display-ads-technically-medias-events-based-business-model-is-working/\" target=\"_blank\">Forget display ads: Techically Media’s events-based business model is working</a>\nHow a trio of j-school grads found a “diverse, sustainable business model” for a local tech news site. Events and consulting bring major revenue, ads and grants round it out.', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: August 17 – August 31, 2012', '', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-august-17-august-31-2012', '', '', '2012-08-17 12:48:50', '2012-08-17 19:48:50', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12728', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12737, 12, '2012-09-04 15:36:16', '2012-09-04 22:36:16', 'The reach of social and the reporting implications, comps for both data-driven newsrooms and for freelancers, plus keeping an eye on new combinations and content under the journalism roof.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>RT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/andrewsmith1443\">andrewsmith1443</a>: Homeless Find Support On <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23SocialMedia\">#SocialMedia</a> Networks, Facebook, Twitter - <a href=\"http://t.co/biZN6oCZ\" title=\"http://ow.ly/deYTI\">ow.ly/deYTI</a></p>&mdash; Nicole Staudinger (@pheona) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/pheona/status/240136399238598657\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-27T17:19:13+00:00\">August 27, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>INFOGRAPHIC: The Data-Driven Newsroom; How do you Stack Up? <a href=\"http://t.co/QJIBhrIX\" title=\"http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2012/08/infographic-the-data-driven-newsroom-how-do-you-stack-up.html\">visualrevenue.com/blog/2012/08/i…</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23editor\">#editor</a></p>&mdash; Visual Revenue (@VisualRevenue) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/VisualRevenue/status/237924664247218176\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-21T14:50:35+00:00\">August 21, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>5 <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23B2B\">#B2B</a> Brands That “Get” Storytelling (from @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/eloqua\">eloqua</a>) <a href=\"http://t.co/xgQGirs9\" title=\"http://elq.to/Sh18LC\">elq.to/Sh18LC</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/240540331697909760\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-28T20:04:18+00:00\">August 28, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Weekend reading for freelancers &amp; solopreneurs --&gt; The 2012 <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Freelance\">#Freelance</a> Industry Report <a href=\"http://t.co/vgLjWfO9\" title=\"http://shar.es/7EKEv\">shar.es/7EKEv</a></p>&mdash; EdGandia (@EdGandia) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/EdGandia/status/241646862971596800\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-31T21:21:16+00:00\">August 31, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The newsonomics of a New York Times + CNN combination <a href=\"http://t.co/RhrQWszm\" title=\"http://nie.mn/PELiaX\">nie.mn/PELiaX</a></p>&mdash; Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NiemanLab/status/239445807793836032\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-25T19:35:03+00:00\">August 25, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: August 26 - September 1, 2012', 'The reach of social and the reporting implications, comps for both data-driven newsrooms and for freelancers, plus keeping an eye on new combinations and content under the journalism roof.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-august-26-september-1-2012', '', '', '2012-09-04 15:36:16', '2012-09-04 22:36:16', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12737', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12751, 17, '2012-09-06 16:23:55', '2012-09-06 23:23:55', '<div class=\"underwrite\"><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/\"><img title=\"JReporter\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JReporter.png\" alt=\"JReporter\" /></a>&nbsp;\n\nJReporter is a mobile software app designed for editors to ask for community reporting, and get back useful, verifiable information in an easy to manage way. There is room for ads and sponsorships. JReporter can also send news stories to readers. It\'s new, and JJCS is looking for partners to test drive.\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><a title=\"JReporter\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/\" target=\"_blank\">JReporter</a> is new; its creators at <a href=\"http://jjcs.com/Personnel.html\" target=\"_blank\">JJCS</a> are looking for newsrooms with a commitment to community engagement to test it. Essentially,<strong> JReporter is a white label (meaning you can put your own brand on it) mobile app that\'s designed to make gathering and reporting community news easy for both contributors (whether professional reporters or community contributors) and news organizations</strong>.</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>We chose JReporter for the second in our <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ja-resource-chat-sunlights-scout-is-a-tool-useful-in-an-obvious-way/\" target=\"_blank\">new online conversation series</a> highlighting specific resources for publishers from our <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\" target=\"_blank\">growing collection</a> because <strong>it aims to solve specific problems we hear about in JA conversations, most notably fewer staff, challenges in engaging audience, and the need for multiple sources of revenue</strong>.\n</em></p>\n\"Just like other apps on their smart phones.\" That is how JJCS executive director <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/jo-ann-froelich/\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Ann Froelich</a> would describe JReporter to someone who might use it to send video of a school soccer match, or a bit of Q &amp;A from a city council meeting, to a local news organization. It \"<strong>facilitates a two-way conversation between the media company and its audience</strong>,\" says JJCS founder John Juliano. Editors can \"assign\" with JReporter by posting a note about what coverage they\'re actively looking for. <!--more-->\n\n<strong>And it is built to handle different types of communication</strong>. In our <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2079\" target=\"_blank\">\"tire-kicking\" conversation</a> last week, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/christiangaston/\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Gaston</a> editor of the <a href=\"http://portlandtribune.com/forest-grove-news-times-news/\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Grove News-Times</a> in Oregon, asked whether news organizations might use JReporter to push out content as well gather it – something he thought might be useful for outlets who don\'t have their own content app. Juliano says yes: \"It is our hope that JReporter will become the single app for many outlets.\"\n\nThe conversation ranged from the philosophical – why build a tool like this – to the practical – will it really work? Here are a few highlights:\n<ul>\n	<li>JReporter is designed to help newsrooms get <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2073\" target=\"_blank\">verifiable content</a> from community members. <strong>News organizations are JJCS\'s customers, but they\'ll need active users to make JReporter work. Why would people use it?</strong> <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2055\" target=\"_blank\">John Juliano says</a> it taps into people\'s desire to participate in coverage of their community. There is also a rewards feature built in.</li>\n	<li>On the more practical level, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/maryturck/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Turck</a> of <a href=\"http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Twin Cities Daily Planet</a> in Minnesota wanted a price, and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2057\" target=\"_blank\">expressed doubt</a> that an outside mobile app could feed seamlessly into her news operation. <strong>\"I suspect the main breakdown will be in the \'integration with your CMS,\'\" she told us. \"That\'s never as easy as it sounds.\"</strong> The price, it turns out, depends on the size of the news organization. On the tech front, Juliano <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2067\" target=\"_blank\">notes</a> his long experience developing content management systems for news organizations and says he doesn\'t expect integration to be difficult.</li>\n	<li><strong>JReporter builds in ways to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2073\" target=\"_blank\">verify reporting</a>, as well as advertising and sponsorship opportunities to bring in additional revenue</strong>.  But how about this issue, that editor Christian Gaston <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2032\" target=\"_blank\">brought up</a> – a low tech community? \"We connect with teenagers at the high school using Twitter and social media and text messages, but their parents aren\'t there,\" he wrote. \"It\'s rare to find an adult in our market that we can connect with via Facebook rather than by connecting with them with a telephone call.\"</li>\n</ul>\nCheck out <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2052\" target=\"_blank\">Juliano\'s reply</a>, and the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2076\" target=\"_blank\">deep belief</a> that drove him to build this tool.\n\n<strong>The <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/j-reporter/#comment-2079\" target=\"_blank\">full chat</a> about JReporter is still open for comments and questions.</strong> People who participated will get notified when you post and can reply in the thread.\n\n<strong>Our next resource conversation features <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/\" target=\"_blank\">The Civic Commons</a>, a platform specifically designed to get people across communities talking with each other about local issues.</strong> Join us Tuesday, September 11, at 1:30 PM Eastern / 10:30 AM Pacific to meet <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/danmoulthrop/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Moulthrop</a>, curator of conversation at The Civic Commons. We always welcome your <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/about/suggest-a-resource/\" target=\"_blank\">suggestions</a> for resources to list and to feature in conversation.\n<div class=\"underwrite_span\">\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-12503  alignright\" style=\"padding-top: 10px;\" title=\"John Juliano\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JohnJuliano.jpg\" alt=\"John Juliano\" width=\"98\" height=\"140\" /><img class=\"size-full wp-image-12502 alignright\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;\" title=\"Jo Ann Froelich\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JoAnnFroelich.jpg\" alt=\"JoAnnFroelich\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" />\n<h3>\"Encourage... voices of the community\"</h3>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0px;\">JJCS founder <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/john-juliano/\" target=\"_blank\">John Juliano</a> and executive director <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/jo-ann-froelich/\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Ann Froelich</a> bring decades of experience in news content management to JReporter. They know technology will keep changing and JReporter, though new now, will \"one day seem quaint.\"</p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\">But the reason Juliano created JReporter will likely survive in one form or another: a news organization \"needs to serve its community - trite, I know,\" he says. \"[I]nformation must be of interest to the community and must encourage the voices of the community to be heard.\"</p>\n\n</div>', 'JA Resource Q&amp;A: JReporter “facilitates a two-way conversation between the media company and its audience.”', 'Highlights from our live chat on JReporter, a mobile app for publishers to ask the community for coverage and get it delivered. Aims to increase loyalty; verification and revenue tools built in.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-chat-jreporter-facilitates-a-two-way-conversation-between-the-media-company-and-its-audience', '', '', '2012-09-06 16:23:55', '2012-09-06 23:23:55', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12751', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13250, 3, '2012-09-01 16:12:27', '2012-09-01 23:12:27', 'Earning an “A” for revenue, an experiment and an explanation that might work for your local news site, and new survey results that value professional journalism over social referrals.\n\n<a title=\"We need better entrepreneurial journalism courses. Here’s how to fix them.\" href=\"http://seanblanda.com/blog/feature/we-need-better-entrepreneurial-journalism-courses-heres-how-to-fix-them/\" target=\"_blank\">We need better entrepreneurial journalism courses. Here’s how to fix them.</a>\nJust in time for back-to-school, course concepts anyone in the news business might consider. Earn an A for picking a niche, studying success, building a vision and making money.\n\n<a title=\"Survey: Public prefers news from professional journalists\" href=\"http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/186966/survey-public-prefers-news-from-professional-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\">Survey: Public prefers news from professional journalists</a>\n“Digital content produced by professional journalists…has perceived value, but charging for access…will continue to present news organizations with a dilemma.”\n\n<a title=\"Newspaper websites move in new direction\" href=\"http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/editor/2012/aug/27/newspaper-websites-move-in-new-direction/\" target=\"_blank\">Newspaper websites move in new direction</a>\nHow one local news editor explained to readers why the site is starting a paywall.\n\n<a title=\"Evening Edition, an afternoon paper for a mobile world\" href=\"http://gigaom.com/2012/08/27/evening-edition-an-afternoon-paper-for-a-mobile-world/\" target=\"_blank\">Evening Edition, an afternoon paper for a mobile world</a>\nThis daily digest, served right when many people want it, has a national/global focus. But why not try it locally?\n\n<a title=\"Block-by-Blockers Respond to Borrell’s Revenue Prescription\" href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/08/30/block-by-blockers-respond-to-borrells-prescription-for-hyperlocal-revenue/\" target=\"_blank\">Block-by-Blockers Respond to Borrell’s Revenue Prescription</a>\nSmart local publishers weigh in on controversial advice on how to generate revenue.\n\n<a title=\"‘Thunderdome’ Takes Shape At Digital First\" href=\"http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/20872/digital-first-puts-fare-under-thunderdome/page/1 \" target=\"_blank\">‘Thunderdome’ Takes Shape At Digital First</a>\nJournal Register editor-in-chief Jim Brady sets the compass for the company’s new centralization operations. “How many local stories can be produced...?” if national news is done centrally.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: September 1 - September 17, 2012', 'Earning an “A” for revenue, an experiment and an explanation that might work for your local news site, and new survey results that value professional journalism over social referrals.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-september-1-september-17-2012', '', '', '2012-09-01 16:12:27', '2012-09-01 23:12:27', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13250', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12862, 3, '2012-09-10 11:04:08', '2012-09-10 18:04:08', '<blockquote>This website is your source for tracking and analyzing ethical issues in your city or around the world. This site is the public face of the new Center for Journalism Ethics in the <a title=\"School of Journalism and Mass Communication\" href=\"http://journalism.wisc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Journalism and Mass Communication</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.\n\nThis site will keep you updated on ethical issues in the news, while providing informed analysis on issues, as well as book reviews and interviews with leading figures in journalism. You will access a host of resources, from background discussions on the nature and history of journalism ethics to codes of practice and links to ethics experts.\n\nThe aim of the site is to support the mission of the Center for Journalism Ethics – to advance the ethical standards and practices of democratic journalism through discussion, research, teaching, professional outreach, and newsroom partnerships. The center is a voice for journalistic integrity, a forum for informed debate, and an incubator for new ideas and practices. <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Center for Journalism Ethics University of Wisconsin-Madison\" href=\"http://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Journalism Ethics University of Wisconsin-Madison</a></blockquote>\n&nbsp;', 'Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison', 'A center to guide, examine, and encourage action, as“[u]pheavals in journalism have bequeathed to journalists a dizzying whirlpool of ethical issues.”', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'center-for-journalism-ethics-university-of-wisconsin-madison', '', '', '2012-09-10 11:04:08', '2012-09-10 18:04:08', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12862', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12863, 3, '2012-09-10 11:01:58', '2012-09-10 18:01:58', '<blockquote>In this report, researchers at American University’s Center for Social Media identify a set of best practices in digital new media journalism intended to guide planning and initiatives in this area specifically for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and more broadly for the Public Service Media community in the US. We offer an overview of the current journalism and public broadcasting environments, derived from a scan of recent reports and interviews with relevant experts, along with a set of identified best practices, bolstered with analysis of specific examples that could be replicated by public media producers...\n\n<em>Best practice categories identified:</em>\n<ul>\n	<li>Involve: Journalism projects are using digital platforms to serve and involve users by providing the information, motivation, and tools for the user to participate in current affairs debates and related online/offline communities.</li>\n	<li>Go deeper: News and public affairs outlets are taking advantage of digital platforms to add depth and context to coverage of breaking news, events, and issues. Digital journalism projects are also sustaining and expanding core public affairs specializations such as investigative reporting, international news, or science and environmental coverage—specialty beats that commercial news organizations are otherwise cutting.</li>\n	<li>Reach new and non-traditional publics: Digital platforms are making it possible for producers to engage with more focused networks of users who share common identities, problems, issues or interests, rather than following a model that dictates coverage that appeals to a mass audience. Importantly, this creates openings for informing and engaging minority, ethnic, and low-income publics that are often underserved by mainstream coverage—a core mission for public broadcasters. In turn, such perspectives and content can migrate to broader platforms, diversifying coverage and providing valuable context for more general constituencies.</li>\n	<li>Repurpose, remix, recycle: Repurposing existing content online can include shifting content from one platform to another, or the aggregation of existing news and data sources around particular issues. Such projects maximize user access to existing content and create new value and utility for users through smart curation.</li>\n	<li>Collaborate: Collaborative digital news and public affairs projects are being organized around shared issues, locations and user communities. These projects involve connections between different sorts of media outlets as well as related organizations, institutions, and publics.</li>\n	<li>Enable media literacy: Digital journalism is not just about effective use of technology or organizational restructuring. It also involves helping users to take advantage of the abundance of new media resources and choices, to become more frequent and more effective makers and users. This category includes examples of projects featuring news and media literacy, standards-setting and training to become citizen journalists.</li>\n	<li>Play with form to innovate and integrate new technologies: Digital journalism pioneers are innovating new formats, interfaces, and platforms for delivering news and information and for sponsoring audience engagement with public affairs. In some cases these piggyback on commercial open platforms and software; in others they leverage free open source software and related developer communities.</li>\n	<li>Promote political discussion and participation: Digital journalism sites are well poised to foster political conversations and civic engagement, whether they are election-centered or policy-centered, partisan or not. Political sites tend to encourage and even rely upon user comments that can sometimes turn into rigorous discussions that inspire people to take action. These sites also provide so-called “mobilizing information” on how to get involved, who to contact, and where to show up to participate or vote. Political conversations are also stimulated by government transparency initiatives.</li>\n</ul>\nWe close this report by providing a discussion of issues of scale in applying best practices, and a recommendation of two areas for further study: emerging business models and impact measurement for digital journalism.\"\n<strong>Source: </strong><a title=\"Center for Social Media: Scan and Analysis of Best Practices in Digital Journalism In and Outside U.S. Public Broadcasting\" href=\"http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/future-public-media/documents/white-papers/scan-and-analysis-best-practices-digital-journalism-and-o#exec\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Social Media</a></blockquote>', 'Scan and Analysis of Best Practices in Digital Journalism In and Outside U.S. Public Broadcasting', 'Go deep, reach out, play with form, promote participation. Just some of the best practices in this guide for journalism in the public service contextualized by the shifting media world.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'scan-and-analysis-of-best-practices-in-digital-journalism-in-and-outside-u-s-public-broadcasting', '', '', '2012-09-10 11:01:58', '2012-09-10 18:01:58', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12863', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12882, 3, '2012-09-10 11:03:22', '2012-09-10 18:03:22', '<blockquote>Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have become part of a reporter’s toolkit. Yet research shows that media outlets and journalists tend to approach these Web 2.0 services with a 1.0 mindset.\n\nIn an attempt to help newsrooms, journalism professors Susana Herrera and José Luis Requejo have put together a list of 10 best practice guidelines for using Twitter...\n\nFor the guidelines, the scholars looked at the academic research on Twitter and studied the official accounts of leading news outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC, The Washington Post and National Public Radio.\n\nThe 10 best practices they identified are:\n<ol>\n	<li>Have a voice that is credible and reliable, but also personal and human</li>\n	<li>Be generous in retweets and credit others</li>\n	<li>Link to external material rather than simply broadcast your own content</li>\n	<li>Listen and respond to others</li>\n	<li>Provide information that adds value</li>\n	<li>Seek out the views of users</li>\n	<li>Promote the most interesting and useful content for audiences</li>\n	<li>Use hashtags created by the Twitter community</li>\n	<li>Include multimedia with tweets</li>\n	<li>Link to other networks where a conversation is happening, such as Facebook\"</li>\n</ol>\n<strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Reportr.net\" href=\"http://www.reportr.net/2012/05/02/10-best-practices-for-twitter-for-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\">Reportr.net</a></blockquote> ', '10 Best Practices for Twitter for Journalists', 'Distilling research and the practices of major newsrooms to a top ten list capturing the essence of 140 character journalism communication. Subscription version highlights useful examples.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', '10-best-practices-for-twitter-for-journalists', '', '', '2012-09-10 11:03:22', '2012-09-10 18:03:22', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12882', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(12891, 3, '2012-09-10 11:02:48', '2012-09-10 18:02:48', '<blockquote>Despite the meteoric growth in freelancing over the last decade, there is very little published information about who we are as freelancers -- what we do, how we land work, what we earn, and why we do what we do...\n\nIn this free report...you’ll discover:\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>The biggest challenges freelancers face</strong> and how those challenges differ by profession, location, experience and other factors.</li>\n	<li>Attitudes toward freelancing, the economy\'s impact on freelance work, and <strong>freelancers\' business outlook for the next 12 months</strong>.</li>\n	<li>Income trends, hourly rates, billable time, and <strong>how different freelancers price their services</strong>.</li>\n	<li>Lifestyle choices, including <strong>average hours worked, the importance of free time and flexibility,</strong> and attitudes toward reentering the traditional workforce.</li>\n	<li>How <strong>freelancers attract clients today,</strong> how much time they spend promoting their services and what marketing strategies they\'re planning to implement over the next year.</li>\n	<li><strong>An analysis of displaced workers who have given up their job search in favor of the freelance path: </strong>what challenges they face, how they feel about self-employment, their lifestyle changes and their likelihood to remain self-employed.</li>\n	<li><strong>How freelancers contribute to economic growth,</strong> and how entrepreneurially minded freelancers perform against those who don\'t consider themselves to be entrepreneurs.\"</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"2012 Freelance Industry Report\" href=\"http://www.internationalfreelancersday.com/2012report/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Freelance Industry Report</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>This report is filled with meaty goodness and covers all aspects of being a freelancer. A few data points that caught my eye:\n\n<strong>Of those who responded to the survey, 71% were women</strong>\nThis  is an easy one: freelancing gives women more flexibility no matter what  their age. I started freelancing part-time in 1998 so that I could be  at home with my son. Now that he’s older I can work full-time; however,  many women my age are now stuck taking care of aging parents AND their  kids/families. Freelancing gives women the flexibility they need to  juggle these responsibilities.\n\n<strong>47.2% of freelancers are primary income earners</strong>\nI  found this data point very encouraging. It means we can earn enough to  support ourselves and our families. It also means freelancers don’t have  to buy into the the image of the starving artist living in a garret  mentality.\n\nWhat I’d love to know is how many <strong>women freelancers</strong> are primary income earners. Knowing this would give more women the  encouragement to go out on their own after the loss of a spouse due to  divorce or death — or those who have a spouse who can’t work due to  injury / illness.\n\n<strong>30.4% of freelancers spend less than 2 hours a month prospecting for clients</strong>\nThis one made me go WOW!! As in OMG WOW! How do you stay in business if you’re not marketing? Well, actually, you don’t. Wow.\"\n\n<strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Review of the 2012 Freelance Industry Report\" href=\"http://www.diannahuff.com/2012/09/ed-gandia-publishes-2012-freelance-industry-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Review of the 2012 Freelance Industry Report</a>\n\n<a title=\"Review of the 2012 Freelance Industry Report\" href=\"http://www.diannahuff.com/2012/09/ed-gandia-publishes-2012-freelance-industry-report/\" target=\"_blank\"></a></blockquote>', '2012 Freelance Industry Report', 'Offering insights to the highs and lows of freelancing, useful broad context as more journalists become self-employed. Findings explore attitude, practices and entrepreneurial success.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', '2012-freelance-industry-report', '', '', '2012-09-10 11:02:48', '2012-09-10 18:02:48', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12891', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12922, 3, '2012-09-10 13:24:13', '2012-09-10 20:24:13', 'New French fad: co-opetition for ads. Picking the right word for Twitter, rockstars of #opengov, a how-to on college police beats, and a quick explainer on journalism today worth passing on.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Handbook about getting records out of college police departments, via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/splc\">splc</a> on @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/sunshinereview\">sunshinereview</a>\'s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23FOIAchat\">#FOIAchat</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/aIgHdgY7\" title=\"http://ow.ly/dnNtp\">ow.ly/dnNtp</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23FOIA\">#FOIA</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/242971537987227648\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-04T13:05:03+00:00\">September 4, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What these journalists &amp; writers can teach us about engaging tweeting: <a href=\"http://t.co/Ntj0B7mB\" title=\"http://goo.gl/vr5nj\">goo.gl/vr5nj</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/poynter\">poynter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Twitter\">#Twitter</a></p>&mdash; PIJ Foundation (@PIJF_au) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PIJF_au/status/241288147877654528\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-30T21:35:52+00:00\">August 30, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>MT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/marikalynch\">marikalynch</a>: Communities map neighborhoods w/ balloons &amp; a kit that costs $200. <a href=\"http://t.co/mQ2eHS4I\" title=\"http://kng.ht/NdcTT6\">kng.ht/NdcTT6</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/sunfoundation\">sunfoundation</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23newschallenge\">#newschallenge</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/244057852661071872\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-07T13:01:41+00:00\">September 7, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What\'s causing less accountable institutions &amp; more corruption? @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/stevenwaldman\">stevenwaldman</a>\'s video explains: <a href=\"http://t.co/fKhV4yC8\" title=\"http://cjr.org/supportreporting/\">cjr.org/supportreporti…</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journo\">#journo</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/243395660676739072\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-05T17:10:22+00:00\">September 5, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\"Four French lifestyle <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23publishers\">#publishers</a> have joined forces to create a single online ad-buying exchange.\" @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/robertandrews\">robertandrews</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/TtXRgrhD\" title=\"http://ow.ly/dsOPV\">ow.ly/dsOPV</a></p>&mdash; Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Porter_Anderson/status/243108687391117313\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-04T22:10:02+00:00\">September 4, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: September 2 - September 8, 2012', 'New French fad: co-opetition for ads. Picking the right word for Twitter, rockstars of #opengov, a how-to on college police beats, and a quick explainer on journalism today worth passing on.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-september-2-september-8-2012', '', '', '2012-09-10 13:24:13', '2012-09-10 20:24:13', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12922', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(12943, 17, '2012-09-14 21:41:48', '2012-09-15 04:41:48', '[caption id=\"attachment_12946\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" caption=\"Checking in on an experiment: Ashoka and The Christian Science Monitor co-brand.\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-12946 \" title=\"Make Change / Christian Science Monitor\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/csm_makechange-250x146.png\" alt=\"Make Change / Christian Science Monitor\" width=\"250\" height=\"146\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px;\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>In the rich <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/technology/how-could-collaboration-increase-revenue-in-journalism/\">JA conversations</a> earlier this year on <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/jas-collab-space-forum-yields-resources-examples-and-emerging-practices-to-support-journalism-collaborations/\">collaboration in the news</a> business, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/\">Keith Hammonds</a>, director of Ashoka’s <a href=\"http://knowledge.ashoka.org/\">Knowledge Initiative</a>, sketched out a “<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/jas-collab-space-forum-yields-resources-examples-and-emerging-practices-to-support-journalism-collaborations/#comment-1948\">new sort of collaboration</a>.” </strong>Soon after, <a href=\"https://www.ashoka.org/\">Ashoka</a>, an institution dedicated to innovative social change, and <a href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/\">The Christian Science Monitor</a>, a news organization committed to thoughtful, contextualized coverage, launched the project: a two week trial run of a cooperative effort designed to give Monitor readers the chance to actively respond to stories in ways that might change them. Or possibly the world.</em></p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>So how did it turn out?</strong></em><!--more--></p>\n\n“People bit,” said Ashoka’s Keith Hammonds, in a recent conversation with Monitor’s business development manager Trevor Snorek-Yates and me. Both partners in the project were pleased with readers’ response to the trial run. <strong>“We believe that anyone can be inspired, equipped, prepared to identify social problems and change them,” said Hammonds. “Here we’re really road testing that.”</strong> Snorek-Yates says The Monitor tried this experiment to address a specific problem. “In the past, we’ve struggled with guiding readers who, at the end of an article, want to engage,” he said.\n\nThis is how the collaboration worked: Editors at The Monitor could add a button and banner to any story, inviting people to respond to what they’d read and “make change” by learning more, talking with others, or even starting a project.\n\nThe project focused on \"empathy.\" For two weeks this summer, links went on stories that somehow related to empathy, and sent readers to <a href=\"http://pulse.changemakers.com/campaigns/education/2012/04/csm-empathy/#/education/2012/06/make-change-on-empathy-1/\" target=\"_blank\">a co-branded page</a> exploring what that concept means for people today.\n\nThe goals? Gauge reader interest, test-drive a collaborative relationship and create an example for potential sponsors.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>About Keith Hammonds</h3>\n<img title=\"Keith Hammonds\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/keithhammonds.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Hammonds\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" /><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/keithhammonds/\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hammonds</a> directs<a href=\"http://knowledge.ashoka.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Ashoka’s Knowledge Initiative</a>. He started his journalism career as a news clerk for The New York Times. He wrote for the Johannesburg newspaper Business Day, managed bureaus and edited for BusinessWeek in Boston and New York and spent eight years as the executive editor for Fast Company, where he started the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards to honor top social entrepreneurs.\n\n</div>\n<h3><strong>Measuring engagement</strong></h3>\n\n<strong>Both Hammonds and Snorek-Yates say their organizations set conservative goals based in part on past experience, and were pleasantly surprised.</strong> For example, they aimed for at least 100 click-throughs to the co-branded page from Monitor stories. Actual visits were 34 times higher. About 14% of the 45,000 people who get regular emails from The Monitor clicked to the project page from a note sent out by The Monitor’s publisher. Snorek-Yates says that was \"quite good\" relative to some other campaigns.\n\nWhat was the draw? <strong>Both suspect the particular content appealed to the targeted audience.</strong> Snorek-Yates described Monitor readers as often “interested in exploring what people might think of as pretty heavy topics.” Hammonds said the conversation leaders were appealing too.\n\nBut neither knows exactly what brought people in. “I don’t think this was evidence we have a deliverable solution,” Hammonds said, “but it was evidence we have something here that has resonance.”\n\n<h3><strong>Exploring collaboration</strong></h3>\n\nThey were also both were surprised at how well their organizations meshed.\n\nThe Monitor had struggled in the past to give readers a meaningful way to engage after reading articles.  But <strong>in early conversations, neither organization was sure exactly what they wanted to build.</strong> They kept exploring. <strong>Hammonds was hooked by The Monitor’s enthusiasm and willingness to take risks.</strong> “We got the sense that this was genuinely exciting for them. This was an opportunity to do something that had some intellectual appeal, this was not just another story,” he said.\n\n<strong>Snorek-Yates said Ashoka was a good partner for Monitor because their interests were in synch</strong>. “We talked with OxFam, but at the end of the day, they have a pretty strong agenda,” he said, including a particular political path toward the larger aim of ending world hunger. Snorek-Yates said partnering with advocacy groups can be challenging for news organizations that prefer to stay away from supporting specific policies.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>Trevor Snorek-Yates</h3>\n<img title=\"“Trevor\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Trevor-Snorek-Yates.png\" alt=\"Trevor Snorek-Yates\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" />Trevor Snorek-Yates rose to become business development manager for <a href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Science Monitor</a> after nearly half a dozen years as an advertising sales manager. He’s been with the organization for 10 years. Prior to The Monitor, Trevor worked with Media News Group with one of its local newspaper affiliates in Vermont.\n\n</div>\n<h3><strong>Producing a product</strong></h3>\n\n<strong>Will giving people a way to engage at a deeper level than sharing a link or posting a comment add value for readers? And will that value bring in revenue?</strong> Snorek-Yates said finding a sponsor is vital to continue this experiment on a larger scale. “We haven’t considered it as something we’d continue if it did not have revenue behind it,” he said. <strong>Hammonds says the value comes from the people who participate. “Our hope is we are actually creating something that has higher value to sponsors because we are connecting them not just to interested readers but to engaged changemakers – a more intimate, powerful relationship,” he said.</strong>\n\nThey are starting conversations with potential backers this fall.\n\n<em>Is there something you’ve seen on the JA you’d like to go deeper on? Feel free to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">send us</a> your suggestions. Keith Hammonds, Trevor Snorek-Yates and I would also appreciate hearing about effective ways YOU engage your readers, or ideas you’d like to try.</em>', 'JA Revisits: Ashoka and The Christian Science Monitor find “resonance”', 'Nuggets of knowledge for a new day. Collaboration partners Ashoka and The Christian Science Monitor share insights from an experiment inviting news consumers to engage for change.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ashoka-and-the-christian-science-monitor-find-resonance', '', '', '2012-09-14 21:41:48', '2012-09-15 04:41:48', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=12943', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13260, 3, '2012-09-18 10:42:56', '2012-09-18 17:42:56', 'Twitter highlights from Block by Block 2012, connecting young readers to newsprint, and a rare study: how to manage journalists through these turbulent times.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How should a manager lead a team of creative <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalists\">#journalists</a>? An <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23editor\">#editor</a>\'s handbook for tumultuous times @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/risj_oxford\">risj_oxford</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/1kzjqxJp\" title=\"http://bit.ly/NqwWxB\">bit.ly/NqwWxB</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/246640652090228737\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-14T16:04:48+00:00\">September 14, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>If you missed: Community publishers: Look ahead, get ready to make mobile money <a href=\"http://t.co/asX2Pfdp\" title=\"http://bit.ly/Nq5boV\">bit.ly/Nq5boV</a> by @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/agahran\">agahran</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23bxb12\">#bxb12</a></p>&mdash; Knight Dig Media Ctr (@kdmc) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/kdmc/status/246303083720753152\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-13T17:43:25+00:00\">September 13, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/janetcoats\">janetcoats</a> - Funding journalism innovation: Sweet spot lies in making innovation pay off financially. @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/inn\">inn</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mybxb\">mybxb</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/sfdmuhdO\" title=\"http://www.thepattersonfoundation.org/blog/funding-journalism-innovation-sweet-spot-lies-in-making-innovation-pay-off-financially/#.UFDB_SaFwI8.twitter\">thepattersonfoundation.org/blog/funding-j…</a></p>&mdash; Kevin Davis (@KLJDavis) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/KLJDavis/status/245933525436600320\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-12T17:14:56+00:00\">September 12, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>First News: the children\'s newspaper that\'s saving journalism <a href=\"http://t.co/rKGGh1Sd\" title=\"http://buff.ly/S38grq\">buff.ly/S38grq</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/guardian\">guardian</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a></p>&mdash; AEJMC (@AEJMC) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AEJMC/status/245182463628959744\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-10T15:30:29+00:00\">September 10, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>RT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/journalismnews\">journalismnews</a> How a US educational group hopes to support local news site publishers <a href=\"http://t.co/hwOFzldF\" title=\"http://bit.ly/ObS1ax\">bit.ly/ObS1ax</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23bxb12\">#bxb12</a></p>&mdash; LION Publishers (@LIONPubs) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LIONPubs/status/245582896650387456\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-11T18:01:39+00:00\">September 11, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: September 9 - September 15, 2012', 'Twitter highlights from Block by Block 2012, connecting young readers to newsprint, and a rare study: how to manage journalists through these turbulent times. ', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-september-9-september-15-2012', '', '', '2012-09-18 10:42:56', '2012-09-18 17:42:56', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13260', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13299, 17, '2012-09-19 22:03:46', '2012-09-20 05:03:46', '<div class=\"underwrite\"><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/\"><img title=\"Civic Commons\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/civiccommons1.jpg\" alt=\"Civic Commons\" /></a>\n<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/\">The Civic Commons</a> is designed as a social media environment for civil conversation and action, where the expertise of non-experts contributes to public knowledge. Moulthrop says it’s a form of journalism. “What we’re doing is bringing the public into the conversation in a way that is sophisticated, civil and productive.”</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/\" target=\"_blank\">The Civic Commons</a> was conceived as a “social media environment designed explicitly for public good.”</em></strong><em> Physically based in Ohio, it is an online home for conversation that intersects with news that affects people’s lives. </em><em>Recent discussions have tackled <a href=\"http://theciviccommons.com/conversations/why-don-t-more-parent-s-support-their-local-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\">parental support for public education</a>, gas and oil development, including <a href=\"http://theciviccommons.com/conversations/charting-the-future-of-fracking\" target=\"_blank\">fracking</a>, <a href=\"http://theciviccommons.com/conversations/incivility-matters-so-let-s-fix-it\" target=\"_blank\">civility</a> in public discourse, and <a href=\"http://theciviccommons.com/conversations/coloring-the-way-to-mergers\" target=\"_blank\">drawing new boundaries</a> in a county with 59 municipalities!</em></p>\nThe Civic Commons partners with local media organizations to go deeper on stories and tap into a wealth of community knowledge. The JA is also <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\" target=\"_blank\">partnering with The Civic Commons, Poynter and Kent State University to put on a series of discussions</a> that will lead to a new ethics guide to best practices in political coverage. <strong>We chose The Civic Commons for our <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\" target=\"_blank\">series of chats</a> about resources listed on the JA to learn more about how civic conversation can contribute to journalism and deepen reporting on the issues that matter to local communities</strong>.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>One key goal of The Civic Commons is to explore ways that “journalism can be participatory.</strong>” In the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/#comment-2083\" target=\"_blank\">JA live chat</a> with <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/danmoulthrop/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Moulthrop</a>, Civic Commons’ curator of conversation, said that meant <strong>reconsidering the approach to news coverage so it was “more people, fewer pundits,” and reflected what people really wanted to understand</strong>. He made <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/#comment-2096\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting argument</a> that radio conversations and public forums The Civic Commons put on were journalism, rather than simply community discussions.\n<blockquote><strong><em>In the role of the 4th estate, our job is to be the forum for the elucidation and illumination of the issues that are important to the community, to involve the community in the conversation and to reflect to the community what it’s actually doing.</em></strong><em> The newspapers are all taking the time to vet candidates through endorsement interviews, but the public isn’t actually invited to do any of the work of that, and many people would gladly participate in that work. Television stations host debates, but mostly those are vehicles for them to showcase how talented their talent is. And also sell a bunch of ads. <strong>What we’re talking about is bringing the public into the conversation in a way that is sophisticated, civil, and productive.”</strong></em></blockquote>\nA couple terrific questions that came up in the conversation:\n<ul>\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/#comment-2123\" target=\"_blank\">How do you create</a></strong><strong> a respectful environment for civic discourse where all ideas are heard, yet still provide a mechanism whereby those participants whose contributions are the most valuable naturally rise to the top? </strong>– <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/jwdsanti/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Delli Santi</a>, <a href=\"http://spotlikes.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Spotlikes</a></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/#comment-2098\" target=\"_blank\">What are your metrics</a></strong><strong> for engagement and success?</strong> – <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/skrelnick/\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Ahn</a>, <a href=\"http://contextpartners.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Context Partners</a></li>\n</ul>\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>\"More people... fewer pundits\"</h3>\n<img src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dan.jpeg\" alt=\"Dan Moulthrop\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" /><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/danmoulthrop/\">Dan Moulthrop</a> wore many hats before becoming curator of conversation</strong> for <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-civic-commons/\">The Civic Commons</a>. He reported, he hosted a talk show, he taught high school, he taught inmates, he wrote a book. All that counts at The Civic Commons, where Moulthrop says one motto is “more people, fewer pundits.”\n\n</div>\nMoulthrop says ultimate success will be when “when we can draw a line from online engagement to policy impact,” <strong>fitting right in to a broad trend of experimenting with ways to<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ashoka-and-the-christian-science-monitor-find-%E2%80%9Cresonance%E2%80%9D/\" target=\"_blank\"> have impact</a> and <a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/08/metrics-metrics-everywhere-how-do-we-measure-the-impact-of-journalism/\" target=\"_blank\">measure it</a></strong> as the news business shifts.\n\n<strong>The JA kicks off an experiment this week with The Civic Commons, Kent State University and Poynter: <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\" target=\"_blank\">crowdsourcing an ethics best practices guide</a></strong><strong> to political reporting in our divisive, fast-paced world.</strong> We’ll start at the <a href=\"http://mediaethics.jmc.kent.edu/2012/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop</a> then continue the conversation online. What emerges from those conversations will form the backbone of a new ethics guide carried forward by our partners at Kent State.\n\n<strong>Join in by <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/kent-state-media-law-center-for-ethics-and-access/#comment-2142\" target=\"_blank\">sharing examples</a> of reporting you’ve done or seen that raised ethical issues</strong> – including civility, accuracy, transparency (in reporting, social media and in campaigning). Listen in on the live stream from Kent State or follow the conference on #ksuethics12, and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\" target=\"_blank\">join the conversations online</a> in the weeks immediately after.\n\n<em>What ethical issues have come up in your political reporting? What would you want explored in an ethics guide to political coverage? <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/kent-state-media-law-center-for-ethics-and-access/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Share your examples here!</a></em>', 'JA Resource Q&amp;A: The Civic Commons draws a line from online engagement to policy impact', '', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-qa-the-civic-commons-draws-a-line-from-online-engagement-to-policy-impact', '', '', '2012-09-19 22:03:46', '2012-09-20 05:03:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13299', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13376, 3, '2012-09-24 01:11:19', '2012-09-24 08:11:19', '[caption id=\"attachment_13404\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"248\" caption=\"Ethics of images? In the 2000 election, The New York Times created one of the first “red state, blue state” maps. This simple data presentation “changed the way we thought about politics,” Poynter’s Kelly McBride told the crowd at the 2012 Poynter Kent State Media Ethics workshop.\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-13404\" title=\"Red State, Blue State Map\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Map.png\" alt=\"Red State, Blue State Map\" width=\"248\" height=\"179\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><em><strong>What are the ethical considerations you apply to your reporting in a high-stakes, fast-paced election when</strong>:</em></p>\n\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 45px;\">\n	<li><em>truth is deliberately subject to distortion or lies</em></li>\n	<li><em>money is increasingly influential yet harder to track</em></li>\n	<li><em>insults distract from the issues</em></li>\n	<li><em>people who will be directly affected by the actions of those elected feel disconnected from the process</em></li>\n	<li><em>the public largely blames the media as part of the problem</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>Don\'t struggle with these questions alone, or debate them isolated in your own newsroom!</strong> Join a larger community of peers, together with the Journalism Accelerator, the Kent State School of Journalism, Poynter and The Civic Commons to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\"><strong>gather examples and explore ideas</strong></a><strong> from the 2012 election to inform a new Ethics Best Practices Guide to Political Coverage</strong>. Be a part of it and <strong>join us!</strong></em><!--more--></p>\n<strong>Power over people\'s lives is the bottom line in any election.</strong> With that at stake, how do you navigate the many perils of political journalism? When one small move - a carefully edited video, a distorted fact, a cutting insult – can easily manipulate the power game, what guidelines do you turn to as you report?\n\n<strong>Join the Journalism Accelerator, Kent State, Poynter and The Civic Commons in four online conversations to dig deeper into <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/kent-state-media-law-center-for-ethics-and-access/#comment-2155\">issues and examples</a></strong> surfaced at the 2012 Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop on political coverage, and <strong>lay the groundwork for a crowdsourced political reporting best practices guide.</strong>\n\n<strong>Mark your calendar:</strong> Live conversation windows are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 2:50 PM Eastern over the next two weeks.\n\n<strong>September 25<sup>th</sup> — <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/\">Social Accountability</a></strong>, with<strong> Ellyn Angelotti </strong>of <strong>The Poynter Institute</strong>.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What questions should you ask yourself before you tweet a contentious political bite? With the growing pressure to build a personal brand and engage authentically, how much of yourself is strategic to reveal across your personal and professional networks? What are the best ways to source information from communities that have much to lose or gain in an election? How do you contextualize memes, trendings and likes in your reporting? How do you respond when your work is characterized in a way not consistent with its intent? </em></p>\n<strong>September 27<sup>th </sup><strong>—</strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/\"> Managing \"access journalism\"</a></strong>, with <strong>USA Today’s</strong> <strong>Greg Korte</strong>.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What do you do when a source says he or she has to approve all quotes before publication? What about a request for all questions in writing? How do you decide whether to include this reporting work in a story? How can reporters move away from journalism that depends on access to power? Will <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/new-york-times-quote-approval-policy_n_1901440.html\">The New York Times’ new stand</a> make a difference?</em></p>\n<strong>October 2<sup>nd </sup>— <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/\">Making facts stick</a></strong>, with <strong>Robert Farley</strong>, deputy managing editor, <a href=\"http://www.factcheck.org/\"><strong>FactCheck.org</strong></a>.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Bill Adair, the “father of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/politifact%E2%80%99s-truth-o-meter/\">Politifact\"</a> told the 2012 Poynter Kent State ethics conference that this is becoming the year of the fact-checker. What are the best practices for journalists to call out misconstrued facts, or outright lies, in reporting and while interviewing? What are the best ways for the public to hold reporters accountable? Should TV stations reveal how much money they earn from political ads? Should they refuse to air ads that make untrue claims? What are useful approaches to get away from he said/she said journalism?</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-indent:-30px;\"><strong>October 4<sup>th </sup>—<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/\"> Improving the system!</a></strong> With <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/bobsteele/\"><strong>Bob Steele</strong></a>, director of DePauw University\'s <strong>Prindle Institute for Ethics </strong> and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/doplinger/\"><strong>Doug Oplinger</strong></a>, managing editor, <strong>Akron Beacon Journal</strong>.</span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What guidelines might combine the best of both the Fourth and Fifth Estates? Should journalists actively press to change any laws, such as those that might make tracking campaign money easier? Are there ways to report or write that will encourage people, or candidates, to be civil, even in emotional disagreements? Is there an ethical obligation to make political coverage directly relevant to your audiences’ lives? Is there an ethical mandate to understand the public’s needs and force politicians to respond? </em></p>\n\n<h3 id=\"howto\"><strong>How to take part</strong></h3>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/kent-state-media-law-center-for-ethics-and-access/#comment-2155\">Share a story</a></strong> about an ethical challenge you’ve faced in political reporting. What did you do?</li>\n	<li><strong>Join us during the live conversation</strong> timeslots to talk with experts, share your experiences and comment on their views.</li>\n	<li><strong>Visit the conversation threads before or after the live window</strong> to add your thoughts and insights. Those already in that conversation will receive notification of your comment, with the opportunity to engage with your ideas to deepen the discussion.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3><strong>How to sign up</strong></h3>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Social\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/janrain.png\" alt=\"Social\" />\n<p style=\"display: block; float: left; padding-left: 20px; width: 300px; height: auto;\">Click on one of the social network buttons at the top right of any JA page to sign in.</p>\n\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<ul>\n	<li>You\'re in! Now you can participate in the discussion with the others already there!</li>\n	<li><img class=\"size-full wp-image-13408 alignright\" title=\"Emily Harris\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/emily.png\" alt=\"Emily Harris\" width=\"247\" height=\"76\" />Be sure to click <strong>\"edit my profile,\" </strong>which is <strong>located in the upper right corner of any page</strong> when you are signed in. You can point people to your website or other work, check off areas of your expertise and interest and tell us what you\'re looking for.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\nBe part of a new movement to make political reporting more responsible, more responsive, and more relevant. Join in!', 'Political coverage: Responsive and responsible? Help inform a best practices guide', 'How do you handle ethical dilemmas on the political beat? Help create a new Ethics Best Practices Guide to Political Coverage!', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'political-coverage-responsive-and-responsible-help-inform-a-best-practices-guide', '', '', '2012-09-24 01:11:19', '2012-09-24 08:11:19', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13376', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13550, 3, '2012-09-26 10:34:35', '2012-09-26 17:34:35', 'Useful impressions insight for anyone wanting eyeballs. Congrats to SFPP, and the IRS! A J-school innovates; a newsroom wants new skills, but old depth. And three news org models to compare.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>.@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/localyokelmedia\">localyokelmedia</a> breaks down the anatomy of an ad impression, helpful 411<a href=\"http://t.co/fPsgSx7Y\" title=\"http://bit.ly/OMCtvD\">bit.ly/OMCtvD</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23bxb12\">#bxb12</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel\">journaccel</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23RJI\">#RJI</a></p>&mdash; lisa skube (@lskube) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/lskube/status/246627675559583744\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-14T15:13:14+00:00\">September 14, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What\'s the best model for a digital news business? <a href=\"http://t.co/R7Q9Kdw1\" title=\"http://flpbd.it/luCir\">flpbd.it/luCir</a></p>&mdash; Neil Budde (@neilbudde) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/neilbudde/status/245341400265273344\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-11T02:02:02+00:00\">September 11, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Mercer University is adapting the medical-residency concept to journalism education in partnership with local media<a href=\"http://t.co/gnk8ldtG\" title=\"http://www.abpnews.com/culture/media-and-arts/item/7794-mercer-launches-journalism-experiment#.UE6OGmjyZ6M\">abpnews.com/culture/media-…</a></p>&mdash; ABP News (@abpnews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/abpnews/status/245522141989199873\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-11T14:00:14+00:00\">September 11, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>“@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/niemanlab\">niemanlab</a>: Has the 501(c)(3) logjam for nonprofit news orgs let up? Optimism from San Francisco Public Press <a href=\"http://t.co/dEvr6hEo\" title=\"http://nie.mn/SBdyuP\">nie.mn/SBdyuP</a>” <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23bxb12\">#bxb12</a></p>&mdash; Kathleen Majorsky (@mediamaj) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mediamaj/status/248502695588134912\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-19T19:23:54+00:00\">September 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Attn journos:\"Meredith Artley: Here’s what we look for when we hire young journalists, j-school grads or not <a href=\"http://t.co/pf5sSzY4\" title=\"http://nie.mn/QQWMgj\">nie.mn/QQWMgj</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/niemanlab\">niemanlab</a></p>&mdash; Terri Ogan (@Terriogan) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Terriogan/status/246262294445699072\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-13T15:01:20+00:00\">September 13, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: September 16 - September 22, 2012', 'Useful impressions insight for anyone wanting eyeballs. Congrats to SFPP, and the IRS! A J-school innovates; a newsroom wants new skills, but old depth. And three news org models to compare.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-september-16-september-22-2012', '', '', '2012-09-26 10:34:35', '2012-09-26 17:34:35', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13550', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(13606, 17, '2012-09-28 14:04:36', '2012-09-28 21:04:36', '[caption id=\"attachment_13611\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"346\" caption=\"USA Today reporter Gregory Korte tells the crowd at the 2012 Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop why he sometimes agrees to quote approval. Credit: Kent State University\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-13611\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Gregory Korte\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gregkorte.png\" alt=\"Gregory Korte\" width=\"346\" height=\"195\" align=\"right\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>\"The values of journalism are under pressure.\"</strong> With that remark, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/kellymcbride/\">Kelly McBride</a> of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-poynter-institute/\">The Poynter Institute</a> set the stage for “Dirty Politics,” the 2012 ethics workshop at <a href=\"http://mediaethics.jmc.kent.edu/2012/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kent State University</a>.</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>Here are ten hot ethical challenges in political coverage that emerged from the workshop. Join in the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/political-coverage-responsive-and-responsible-help-inform-a-best-practices-guide/\">series of online conversations exploring ways</a> to handle them.</strong> Bring your questions! Bring your experience! Help uncover <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\">ethical issues in political coverage that require clarity</a> to provide the accurate reporting people deserve to inform their vote.</em><!--more--></p>\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on-the-campaign-trail-i-take-it-back.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">Quote approval</a></strong> <strong>easily made the hot topics list from last week’s Poynter Kent State media ethics workshop.</strong> <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/gregorykorte/\">Gregory Korte</a> told the crowd there he suffered culture shock when he moved to D.C. two years ago to join USA Today. Only once in his career had anyone asked him to change a quote (the mayor of Akron wanted to take back a “goddamn”). In Washington, he says don’t-quote-me-this-is-on-background is where most conversations begin. <strong>He even once received a press release from a Senator’s office marked both “for immediate release” and “off the record.”</strong>\n\nKorte makes it clear the tradeoffs of getting access to people in power sometimes get out of hand. <strong>Check out the ongoing online conversation with Gregory Korte: <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/\">How do you manage the ethical minefields of access journalism?</a></strong>\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>The year of the fact-checker?</h3>\nIs 2012 becoming “the year of the fact-checker?” Bill Adair, founder of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/politifact%E2%80%99s-truth-o-meter/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFact</a>, told the crowd at the 2012 Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop that the five-year-old project has changed the system. Campaigns, he said are now being asked to explain “what the fact-checkers say.” Some ethical questions: what are the best ways to call out wrong facts in publications or interviews? And this from @KyleBruinoka: Is there or should there be any body to fact check the fact checkers?\n\n</div>\n<strong>The other nine on the Hot Ten list:</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Social Accountability</strong>: What questions should you ask yourself before you tweet a contentious political bite? <strong>With the growing pressure to build a personal brand and engage authentically, how much of yourself is strategic to reveal across your personal and professional networks? </strong>How do you contextualize memes, trendings and likes in your reporting? How do you respond when your work is characterized in a way not consistent with its intent?</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Digital and visual</strong>: How can you be sure your cool data visualizations don’t oversimplify? What are the best ways to aggregate information without plagiarizing or generalizing? What are important ethical guidelines when you’re editing politically potent video? <strong>What about when you’re reporting on potentially unethically edited clips?</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Transparency and privacy</strong>: With the growing expectation that anything politicians say in public could instantly spread around the world, <strong>are journalists always obliged to identify themselves as reporters?</strong> What, if anything, should still be considered private to a candidate or official?</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Neutrality</strong>: This concept is on the way out, but the recognition that we all carry assumptions is in. <strong>How do you learn what biases you bring to a story? What do you do with that knowledge?</strong> How do you know if it’s affecting your reporting?</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Fact-checking</strong>: Bill Adair, the “<strong>father of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/politifact%E2%80%99s-truth-o-meter/\">Politifact</a></strong>,” <strong>told the ethics conference that 2012 is becoming the year of the fact-checker</strong>. What are the best practices for journalists to call out misconstrued facts, or outright lies, in reporting and while interviewing? What are the best ways for the public to hold reporters accountable? Should TV stations reveal how much money they earn from political ads? Should they refuse to air ads that make untrue claims? <strong>What are the best ways to get away from he said/she said journalism?</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Covering polls</strong>: Many political reports mention the margin of error pollsters identify in their own work, but what other best practices can help put horserace numbers in the right context? <strong>Should there be a standard ranking of the value of different polls based on what information the pollsters are willing to release?</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Inclusion and representation</strong>: If “feminism is way more volatile for a lot of people than ‘liberal’,” as Pulitzer prize-winning columnist <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ConnieSchultz\" target=\"_blank\">Connie Schultz</a> told the Poynter Kent State workshop crowd, <strong>should political sources quoted roughly match the gender and racial balance among the electorate, or among those in power?</strong> If you want to broaden the range of sources you speak to, what are smart ways to start?</li>\n</ul>\n[caption id=\"attachment_13621\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"346\" caption=\"The JA’s Emily Harris gathers audience anecdotes and questions about political ethics at the 2012 Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop. Credit: Susan Kirkman Zake\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-13621 \" title=\"Emily Harris\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/emily-meetings.png\" alt=\"Emily Harris\" width=\"346\" height=\"225\" />[/caption]\n<ul>\n	<li> <strong>The basics of political reporting</strong>: What are the unique aspects of political reporting that demand particular ethical considerations? At the workshop, <a href=\"http://www.ohio.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Akron Beacon Journal</a> reporter <a href=\"https://twitter.com/swarsmith\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Warsmith</a> listed the basic responsibilities: <strong>Report what’s happening, explain what’s happening, hold elected officials accountable, educate and entertain.</strong> Is there a bottom-line mission worth hammering out?</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Making the system better</strong>: What guidelines might combine the best of both the Fourth and Fifth Estates? <strong>Should journalists actively press to change any laws, such as those that might make tracking campaign money easier?</strong> Are there ways to report or write that will encourage people, or candidates, to be civil, even in emotional disagreements? Is there an ethical obligation to make political coverage directly relevant to your audiences’ lives? <strong>Is there an ethical mandate to understand the public’s needs and force politicians to respond?</strong></li>\n</ul>\nGrowing out of the Poynter Kent State ethics workshop, the JA is hosting a <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/political-coverage-responsive-and-responsible-help-inform-a-best-practices-guide/\">series of online conversations</a> on key ethical issues in political coverage that deserve guidance. <strong>What journalism practices do you think are essential to deliver the election coverage that people deserve?</strong>', 'Ten hot ethical challenges facing political reporting in 2012', 'Ten key ethical challenges in political journalism heating up in the 2012 election year, from social to data to bringing more truth to the system. ', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ten-hot-ethical-challenges-facing-political-reporting-in-2012', '', '', '2012-09-28 14:04:36', '2012-09-28 21:04:36', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13606', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(13693, 17, '2012-10-02 20:47:35', '2012-10-03 03:47:35', '[caption id=\"attachment_13707\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"269\" caption=\"Kelly McBride (left) and Ellyn Angeletti, both with Poynter, share major developments and ethical pitfalls in the last decade of political coverage with participants of the 2012 Poynter Kent State media ethics workshop. Credit: Kent State University\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-13707  \" title=\"Kent State Presentation\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/kent-state-presentation.png\" alt=\"Kent State Presentation\" width=\"269\" height=\"150\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Conversations on the JA about <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/\">social accountability</a> and trading <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/\">anonymity for access</a> to powerful sources opened up two of the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ten-hot-ethical-challenges-facing-political-reporting-in-2012/\">many timely</a> ethical issues that come up in political coverage. These are part of a <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\">collaboration</a> with Kent State University that grows out of the 2012 Poynter Kent State media ethics workshop, which this year highlighted the \"dirty politics\" of \"blistering sound bites, attack ads and pack journalism.\" The ideas and examples to improve coverage that are shared in these conversations will be distilled into a new best practices guide. Here are highlights from the first two discussions in the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/political-coverage-responsive-and-responsible-help-inform-a-best-practices-guide/\">conversation series</a>.</em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3 style=\"clear: none;\">Social accountability</h3>\nIn the first <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/\">conversation</a> in this series, <strong>social accountability </strong>meant being accountable for your reporting, in your community, even as social media blurs the line between personal and professional worlds.\n\nThere is a lot of ground a best practices guide can cover! Here are some highlights from what’s been shared so far.\n\n<strong>The big issue is how transparent to be. </strong><!--more-->\n\nJacob Caggiano, (full disclosure, he has done some freelancing for the JA) pushed the conversation furthest, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2337\">asking</a>, in response to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2324\">comments by Ellyn Angelotti</a> of Poynter on transparency guidelines:\n<blockquote><em>Any thoughts on fostering an audience culture of “well I may not agree with that reporter’s personal beliefs, but I trust that they are contributing to a better collective foundation of facts, of which to draw those beliefs upon.” (Obviously journalists need to somehow prove that they have integrity in order to achieve this)\"</em></blockquote>\nLooks like at least three issues worth exploring for best practices guidelines.\n<ul>\n	<li>What are smart transparency practices and what are smart limits?</li>\n	<li>How can journalists “prove they have integrity?” To whom?</li>\n	<li>How can political reporting change the audience culture – with the overall goal of getting political coverage increasingly useful in helping voters get information? Should it?</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>There is plenty of room for practical guidelines, and some resources already available to review.</strong>\n\nKent State professor (and ethics workshop organizer) Jan Leach <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2327\">came up with </a> three quick questions, with a hat tip to a Poynter guide, to ask yourself before you tweet news. David Craig, media ethics scholar and associate dean at the University of Oklahoma collected <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2408\">many more</a> from his students. Other areas that could use practical guidelines:\n<ul>\n	<li>How do you “<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2328\">get ready to handle</a>” online, viral criticism?</li>\n	<li>In data visualizations, should you <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2347\">highlight nuance</a> and multiple interpretations, or find a story and tell that? <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/georgeschwarz/\">George Schwarz</a>, in <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2406\">another conversation</a>, pointed to this <a href=\"http://jimromenesko.com/2012/09/27/mcclatchy-editor-sometimes-we-journalists-filter-events-too-much/\">thoughtful piece</a> about nuance.</li>\n	<li>And what are best arguments on <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/#comment-2343\">different sides</a> for sourcing as you scrape the web for information and other reports?</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h3 style=\"clear: none;\"><strong>Managing “access journalism”</strong></h3>\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>Getting somewhere new</h3>\nThe <a href=\"http://mediaethics.jmc.kent.edu/2012/schedule.htm\">2012 Poynter Kent State media ethics workshop</a> was a rich day to experience firsthand. These subsequent online discussions create a place to deepen and broaden the exchange of ideas that began there. They are stepping stones to getting somewhere new. After two weeks with live conversation windows and active curation, the threads will remain open to community discussion. Ultimately, participants help inform a new ethics best practices guide for political coverage, guided into creation by Kent State’s <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/janleach/\">Jan Leach</a>.\n\n</div>\nUSA Today Washington enterprise reporter Gregory Korte <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2400\">summed up</a> <strong>the basic tension</strong> that led to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/\">this conversation</a>: <strong>How much control is too much to give up to a source, in a <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2403\">real world</a></strong> <strong>of deadlines and assignments?</strong>\n\nHe also <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2391\">identified</a> <strong>the potential benefits of working out best practices for widespread adoption:</strong>\n<blockquote><em>Every time I push back hard — not just about quote approval, but also backgrounders, e-mailed statements, etc. — I’m told, “Well, I deal with reporters all the time, and no one else has a problem with it.” It might be like plugging the levee after the waters have broken, but every sandbag helps</em>.\"</blockquote>\nSome potential solutions that came up in the conversation:\n<ul>\n	<li>Figure out <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2400\">a way</a> to do the story that doesn’t require negotiating quotes with sources.</li>\n	<li>Use the question of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2401\">public significance</a> as a guide.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2388\">Don’t negotiate</a> and don’t back down.</li>\n	<li>Take the person’s position <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2397\">into account.</a></li>\n	<li>If you do negotiate with a source, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2407\">reveal, reveal, reveal!</a></li>\n</ul>\nPoynter’s <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/kellymcbride/\">Kelly McBride</a> wrote (years ago) this list of <a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/25191/questions-to-ask-before-going-off-the-record/\">questions to ask</a> before agreeing to go off the record. It’s an excellent place to begin for all sorts of source negotiation issues.\n\nThis week: <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/\">keeping politicians honest</a> and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/\">improving the system</a>.', 'Philosophy and practicalities: Can shared best practices free political coverage from &quot;attack ads and pack journalism?&quot; ', '', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'philosophy-and-practicalities-can-shared-best-practices-free-political-coverage-from-attack-ads-and-pack-journalism', '', '', '2012-10-02 20:47:35', '2012-10-03 03:47:35', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13693', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13816, 3, '2012-10-03 13:02:46', '2012-10-03 20:02:46', 'Excellent tools for elections and after, inspiration for j-school students anyone should embrace, small but happy hyperlocal stats and a great case study on the changing concept of content.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Facebook + Journalists: Tools for Covering the Elections - <a href=\"http://t.co/3DeT9iFO\" title=\"http://on.fb.me/Oo8LS8\">on.fb.me/Oo8LS8</a> A walk-through on Subscribe, Interest Lists, etc.</p>&mdash; Vadim Lavrusik (@Lavrusik) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Lavrusik/status/250666385326354432\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-25T18:41:38+00:00\">September 25, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Ten lessons for digital journalists from <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23ONA12\">#ONA12</a> | Media news | <a href=\"http://t.co/jvvUAKaK\" title=\"http://Journalism.co.uk\">Journalism.co.uk</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/aMYxKQbk\" title=\"http://buff.ly/QhymLd\">buff.ly/QhymLd</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23socialmedia\">#socialmedia</a></p>&mdash; Help A Reporter Out (@helpareporter) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/helpareporter/status/250671363151503360\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-25T19:01:24+00:00\">September 25, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Robert Hernandez: Reboot <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> school? Take control of your education instead <a href=\"http://t.co/IIFVGQSO\" title=\"http://nie.mn/Tqgykn\">nie.mn/Tqgykn</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/niemanlab\">niemanlab</a></p>&mdash; Raquel Reichard (@RaquelReichard) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/RaquelReichard/status/251034346499235841\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-26T19:03:46+00:00\">September 26, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How Content Connects Editorial and Marketing at Forbes <a href=\"http://t.co/sxdixOAl\" title=\"http://contently.com/blog/2012/09/24/the-new-newsroom-how-content-connects-editorial-and-marketing-at-forbes/\">contently.com/blog/2012/09/2…</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/contently\">contently</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23contentmarketing\">#contentmarketing</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a></p>&mdash; John R Tomlinson (@JohnRTomlinson) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnRTomlinson/status/250884416358981632\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-26T09:08:00+00:00\">September 26, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Good news for indy news publishers: 66% of consumers visit hyperlocal news sites: <a href=\"http://t.co/5opvVfqr\" title=\"http://ow.ly/dTbEl\">ow.ly/dTbEl</a></p>&mdash; Mark Briggs (@markbriggs) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/markbriggs/status/249149906684608512\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-21T14:15:41+00:00\">September 21, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: September 23 - September 29, 2012', 'Excellent tools for elections and after, inspiration for j-school students anyone should embrace, small but happy hyperlocal stats and a great case study on the changing concept of content.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-september-23-september-29-2012', '', '', '2012-10-03 13:02:46', '2012-10-03 20:02:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13816', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13843, 3, '2012-10-07 20:26:40', '2012-10-08 03:26:40', 'Insights from Patch and Block by Block to ramp up – and fix – the local ad revenue model. Plus new thinking on networks on and offline for improving contributions, connections and impact.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/homicide-watch-web-site-venture-struggles-to-survive.html?_r=1&amp;src=recg\" target=\"_blank\">Innovation in Journalism Goes Begging for Support\n</a>Writing that “the existential dilemma confronting media will require new answers” the NYT’s David Carr wonders why an innovative site won buzz but no money.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/08/metrics-metrics-everywhere-how-do-we-measure-the-impact-of-journalism/\" target=\"_blank\">Metrics, metrics everywhere: How do we measure the impact of journalism?\n</a>A law changed? Or a long comment stream? “Ideally, a newsroom would have a…database connecting each story to both quantitative and qualitative indicators of impact.” You can start smaller.\n\n<a href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/08/29/6-strategies-for-encouraging-user-contributions-on-hyperlocal-sites/\" target=\"_blank\">6 Ways to Encourage User Contributions on Hyperlocal Sites\n</a>Tap into the 40% of adults who say they are “local news participators” with phone numbers, active personal outreach, and asking for what you want.\n\n<a href=\"http://amyjobrown.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/the-patch-experiment-dont-drink-the-kool-aid/\" target=\"_blank\">The Patch experiment: Don’t drink the Kool-Aid\n</a>A thoughtful analysis of the Patch prescription by an ex-insider. “The journalism is not broken…the sales side of the business is very, very, very broken.”\n\n<a href=\"http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/21282/at-precipice-hyperlocals-face--realities?utm_source=NetNewsCheck-rss&amp;utm_medium=latest-news-feed&amp;utm_campaign=latest-news-feed-At-Precipice-Hyperlocals-Face-Realities\" target=\"_blank\">At Precipice, Hyperlocals Face $$$ Realities\n</a>Report from Block by Block 2012: “If ‘community’ was the hyperlocals’ old mantra, ‘revenue’ has now elbowed up to be a new one.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/188217/smaller-news-websites-depend-more-on-social-media-for-traffic-than-larger-sites/\" target=\"_blank\">Study: Smaller news websites depend more on social media for traffic than larger sites\n</a>Intriguing data and creative visualizations map publications’ interdependencies across one local news ecosystem.', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: September 18 – October 6, 2012', 'Insights from Patch and Block by Block to ramp up – and fix – the local ad revenue model. Plus new thinking on networks on and offline for improving contributions, connections and impact.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-september-18-october-6-2012', '', '', '2012-10-07 20:26:40', '2012-10-08 03:26:40', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13843', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13860, 3, '2012-10-09 10:10:46', '2012-10-09 17:10:46', 'A new way to track your FOIA requests, and a great infographic to get it! Also: Twitter discovery, two smart social analyses of newspapers\' challenges, and the shifting market of public radio.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23DigitalNews\">#DigitalNews</a> Twitter ‘Discover’ Tab Gets a Media-Heavy Makeover <a href=\"http://t.co/SWHGDrgz\" title=\"http://ht.ly/2spRJf\">ht.ly/2spRJf</a></p>&mdash; WomyAds (@WomyAds) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/WomyAds/status/251751081028239361\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-28T18:31:49+00:00\">September 28, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23socialmediatoday\">#socialmediatoday</a> has smart advice for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/xKXqWsLQ\" title=\"http://bit.ly/S6N7CR\">bit.ly/S6N7CR</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel\">journaccel</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/rji\">rji</a></p>&mdash; aderryberry (@aderryberry) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/aderryberry/status/251761733335670784\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-28T19:14:09+00:00\">September 28, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Beyond Ads: How Newspapers Survive In Digital<a href=\"http://t.co/L7TTViuu\" title=\"http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/183352/beyond-ads-how-newspapers-survive-in-digital.html\">mediapost.com/publications/a…</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/10000words\">10000words</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23newspapers\">#newspapers</a></p>&mdash; Natalie Turvey (@natalieturvey) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/natalieturvey/status/252792295307497472\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-01T15:29:14+00:00\">October 1, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Consumer habits are changing when it comes to media consumption. <a href=\"http://t.co/ndu9eg6L\" title=\"http://awe.sm/k5bVg\">awe.sm/k5bVg</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23pubmedia\">#pubmedia</a></p>&mdash; Jacobs Media (@jacobsmedia) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jacobsmedia/status/251746229493592064\" data-datetime=\"2012-09-28T18:12:32+00:00\">September 28, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>For those who haven\'t seen FOIA online project <a href=\"http://t.co/g0PBkQqC\" title=\"http://ow.ly/efZm9\">ow.ly/efZm9</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23foiachat\">#foiachat</a></p>&mdash; Sunshine Review (@SunshineReview) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SunshineReview/status/254285028140396544\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-05T18:20:49+00:00\">October 5, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps : September 30 - October 5, 2012', 'A new way to track your FOIA requests, and a great infographic to get it! Also: Twitter discovery, two smart social analyses of newspapers\' challenges, and the shifting market of public radio.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-september-30-october-5-2012', '', '', '2012-10-09 10:10:46', '2012-10-09 17:10:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13860', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13863, 17, '2012-10-10 23:50:47', '2012-10-11 06:50:47', '[caption id=\"attachment_13707\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"269\" caption=\"Akron Beacon Journal managing editor Doug Oplinger says journalists let “too many politicians… shove their own agendas down the pipe.” Credit: Kent State University\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-13707  \" title=\"Doug Oplinger presenting at Kent State University\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DougOplinger.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Oplinger presenting at KSU\" width=\"269\" height=\"150\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>Getting somewhere new.</strong> That’s what the <a title=\"Link to JA conversations\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/political-coverage-responsive-and-responsible-help-inform-a-best-practices-guide/\">four online JA conversations</a> building on the 2012 Poynter/Kent State media ethics <a title=\"Link to workshop\" href=\"http://mediaethics.jmc.kent.edu/2012/schedule.htm\" target=\"_blank\">workshop</a> are designed to do. <strong>Tap into the wisdom of people experienced in ethics, political coverage or both</strong>; hear the questions of those fresh to the field; create, informed by these conversations, a crowdsourced best practices guide to political coverage exploring approaches and challenges across the field.</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Kent State University journalism professor <a title=\"Link to Jan Leach\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/janleach/\">Jan Leach</a> will lead the creation of that guide in early 2013. Meanwhile, the conversation threads stay open for your input. Outlined below are a number of places where we welcome you to participate! This post highlights key points from discussions on <a title=\"Link to fact checking\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/\">fact-checking</a> and <a title=\"Link to changing the approach\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/\">changing the approach</a> to reporting. An  <a title=\"Link to distillation\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/philosophy-and-practicalities-can-shared-best-practices-free-political-coverage-from-attack-ads-and-pack-journalism/\">earlier distillation</a> covers conversations on <a title=\"Link to managing\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/\">managing</a> “access journalism” and the challenges of <a title=\"Link to social media challenges\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-ethical-challenges-to-social-accountability-in-highstakes-political-reporting/\">social media</a> in political coverage.</em><!--more--></p>\n\n<h3>Delivering coverage citizens deserve</h3>\n<strong>The primary question of this forum was whether different political coverage might better help voters.</strong> It rose to the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/political-coverage-responsive-and-responsible-help-inform-a-best-practices-guide/\">top four</a> of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ten-hot-ethical-challenges-facing-political-reporting-in-2012/\">many more</a> ethical issues that emerged at the 2012 Poynter/Kent State media ethics <a href=\"http://mediaethics.jmc.kent.edu/2012/schedule.htm\">workshop</a> in part because of a passionate presentation Akron Beacon Journal managing editor <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/doplinger/\">Doug Oplinger</a> gave there. He <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/#comment-2461\">elaborated</a> in the JA online <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/\">forum</a>.\n<blockquote><em><strong>We need to deliver stories about people up the pipeline to public officials, and let officials react</strong>. That requires reversing the flow in many cases, because right now we’re allowing too many politicians to shove their own agendas down the pipe. <strong>And if you think about it, that changes the entire relationship with the public.</strong> If we’re just delivering the news from government and organizations, citizens can take it or leave it. And if that news doesn’t pertain to their daily lives, they leave it.<strong>But if we’re listening to citizens, and delivering their stories up the pipeline for officials to react, we become valuable</strong>, and they also watch the officials to see if they care.”</em></blockquote>\nThis sparked deeper discussion on who journalists serve. J-school grad student Elizabeth Nalewajk <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/#comment-2473\">asked</a> whether reversing the pipeline might end up with journalists serving politicians.\n<blockquote><em>If we reverse the pipeline, <strong>aren’t we essentially doing the job now of the people we have elected to know about their constituents and their needs?”</strong></em></blockquote>\n<strong>Also discussed:</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tailoring coverage for <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/#comment-2504\">relevancy</a>.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/#comment-2462\">Reporting</a> on candidates’ style in debates.</li>\n	<li>Not-so-obvious <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-can-the-media-consistently-deliver-the-political-coverage-citizens-deserve/#comment-2500\">coverage practices</a> to hold officials accountable.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Ethics expert Bob Steele says go behind the scenes</strong>.\n<blockquote><em>“…one way to help the public hold the public officials accountable is to provide more substantive reporting on the “process” that is part of politics and government. Both journalists and citizens should scrutinize the “way” government officials and politicians go about their work…<strong>We need to learn everything we can about what’s behind the actions and the words of the powerful to hold them accountable</strong>.”</em></blockquote>\n<h4>Randy Reame (@CANT_CON_ME) suggested withholding coverage from politicians who don’t answer questions.</h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel\">journaccel</a> start by announcing that all politicians who wont answer just give talkin points and deflect will not get coverage no free B.S.\n\n— Randy Reaume (@CANT_CON_ME) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CANT_CON_ME/status/253867765864226816\">October 4, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\"></script>\n\nThat reminded me of something USA Today reporter <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/gregorykorte/\">Gregory Korte</a><em> </em><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/#comment-2391\">said</a> about managing the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/how-do-you-manage-the-ethical-minefields-of-access-journalism/\">ethical perils</a> of journalism that relies on access to people in power.\n<blockquote><em><strong>“Every time I push back hard — not just about quote approval, but also backgrounders, e-mailed statements, etc. — I’m told, “Well, I deal with reporters all the time, and no one else has a problem with it.”</strong></em></blockquote>\n<strong>Can media, collectively, change the game?</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Fact-checking</h3>\nOne challenge to delivering information voters deserve is the rise of social media and its companion, targeted online advertising. Now political campaigns have more ways than ever to reach voters directly. In the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/\">kickoff conversation</a> to the fact-checking thread, <a title=\"Link to Rob Farley\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/farleyrob/\">Rob Farley</a> of <a title=\"Link to FactCheck.org\" href=\"http://www.factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org</a> pointed to recent <a href=\"http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/NewsDetails.aspx?myId=491\">research</a> indicating that’s not helping spread accurate information.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>The rise of fact-checking</h3>\nFact-checking has become so much a part of political coverage that “fact-checking the fact-checkers” has become part of the <a href=\"http://www.redstate.com/2012/10/07/fact-checking-cnns-fact-checkers/\">partisan game</a>. The fact-checking movement gained attention and has enjoyed increasing distribution over the past five years, but this <a href=\"http://mediapolicy.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/The_Rise_of_Political_Fact-checking.pdf.pdf\">New America Foundation report</a> credits its birth to President Ronald Reagan - and a claim he made about trees.\n\n</div>\n<blockquote><em>An analysis by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that from December 1, 2011 through June 1, 2012, 85% of the dollars spent on presidential ads by four top-spending third-party groups were spent on ads containing at least one claim ruled deceptive by fact-checkers.”</em></blockquote>\nBoth practical tips to guide your fact-checking decisions and larger questions of how to keep politicians honest emerged early in <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/\">this conversation</a>.\n\nFormer Seattle Times executive editor <a title=\"Link to Mike Fancher\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/mikefancher/\">Mike Fancher</a> explained <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2451\">why</a> he thinks fact-checking is increasingly required in political coverage.\n\n<strong>The conversation so far also:</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2443\">Explored</a> that vague phrase that sometimes prefaces questions: “Some people are saying”.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2453\">Surfaced</a> a new resource, <a title=\"Link to Econocheck\" href=\"http://ire.org/resource-center/econocheck/\">EconoCheck</a>, for people who want to verify candidates’ economic claims.</li>\n	<li>Offered tips on what, from all the campaign rhetoric, it’s useful to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2425\">check out</a>, including <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2428\">specific guidelines</a> for analyzing and reporting on ads.</li>\n	<li>Explored considerations to apply to “he said, she said” articles, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2432\">often criticized as uninformative</a>.</li>\n</ul>\nRob Farley <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/questions/craft/what-are-the-best-ways-to-call-out-misconstrued-facts-in-politics/#comment-2449\">reflected</a> on <strong>whether fact-checking might change the political dialogue, or reward news organizations.</strong>\n<blockquote><em><strong>Politicians have always misled. That’s not going to change.</strong> Campaigns have shown that they are going to continue doing and saying what works, regardless of whether fact-checkers say it’s wrong. <strong>Whether campaigns are “rewarded” for telling the truth lies in the hands of an informed electorate.</strong> As for the second question, to the extent that media must remain relevant to be financially solvent, I think it’s imperative to aggressively fact-check. <strong>Fact-checking is on the rise because readers crave the truth</strong><strong>.” </strong></em></blockquote>\nHow did you best expose truth, or see truth exposed, in coverage of the 2012 election? All these threads remain open to gather insight for the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/kent-state/\">best practices guide</a>. Add your lessons learned now! What would you like to see or do differently in 2014?', 'Conversations for impact: New ethical considerations for political coverage', 'Can media, collectively, change the game of political reporting? Check out conversations on new approaches to increase accountability and accuracy, delivering information a democracy deserves.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'conversations-for-impact-new-ethical-considerations-for-political-coverage', '', '', '2012-10-10 23:50:47', '2012-10-11 06:50:47', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13863', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13972, 3, '2012-10-11 22:00:23', '2012-10-12 05:00:23', '<blockquote><em>There  are many schools of thought on how to improve commenting on the  internet, most of which focus on trying to convince commenters to be  more civil. But <a href=\"http://www.readrboard.com/\">ReadrBoard</a> turns that idea on its head, asking commenters to be more specific. And  doing that, it found a whole new way of looking at the process.  Co-created by Porter Bayne, Tyler Brock and Eric Chaves, ReadrBoard aims  to change the face of online conversation as we know it. After a  successful beta test on news site Hypervocal and (full disclosure)  Latoya Peterson’s site, Racialicious, Bayne, Brock and Chavs decided to  revamp the overall design and user interface in 2012.  Here Bayne  explains the concept behind ReadrBoard, discusses redesign on the fly,  and shares a visual history of ReadrBoard’s evolution...</em>\n\nAt  ReadrBoard, we all think that all reader engagement — a share, a Like, a  comment, a bookmark, a copy-paste, anything — is preceded by some  emotion or thought: “That’s funny,” or “no way,” or “really?” or “my  friend would love this,” and so on and so on. And we’re sure that far  more readers have a reaction to content than are currently Liking,  commenting, etc.\n\nSo,  ReadrBoard is working to make it simple for readers to do that: react  to content, with just a click. Sort of like a Like button … but any  emotion or thought. And you can react to the whole page, or any part of a page...\n\nThe  biggest conceptual change we had was realizing that the reaction  precedes everything. Our early, prelaunch versions would show a reader  five buttons after they selected content: react, or comment, or share,  or search or bookmark. But we wanted it to be as simple as possible, as  it felt like work to have to pick. Steve Jobs would say, “make it have  one button.” Well, which one?\n\nSo,  we asked ourselves, “what is the ONE thing this MUST do?” It seemed  clear: react. The idea of losing the other functions was a system shock  in a way, but we dug in on it. We would ask, “what if someone wants to  react &amp; share? React &amp; comment?” It was always “react and  _____”. That helped us realize, “oh… everything comes from a reaction.  Rating, sharing, &amp; commenting are all forms of expression that  elaborate on the initial reaction or thought. So let’s start there.” <strong>Source: </strong><a title=\"ReadrBoard\" href=\"http://journalists.org/2012/01/06/how-they-did-it-readrboard/\" target=\"_blank\"> Journalists.org</a></blockquote>', 'ReadrBoard', 'Improve your audience understanding by capturing reactions in the moment as people read, see or hear your content. The concept of comment threads, but deeply interactive. Embed with a button.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'readrboard', '', '', '2012-10-11 22:00:23', '2012-10-12 05:00:23', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13972', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13989, 3, '2012-10-11 22:12:36', '2012-10-12 05:12:36', '<blockquote>Drawing on Annenberg Public Policy Center research conducted over a period of more than 20 years, this FlackCheck.org video “Guide to Fact Checking On-Air and Online” shows how to minimize the power of the political ads aired in news reports and increase the effectiveness of ad watches.\" <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://www.flackcheck.org/media-watch/a-guide-to-factchecking-on-air-and-online/\" target=\"_blank\"> FlackCheck.org</a></blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of  Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org is a video-based counterpart to APPC’s  award-winning program FactCheck.org. FlackCheck.org uses parody and  humor to debunk false political advertising, poke fun at extreme  language, and hold the media accountable for their reporting on  political campaigns.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.flackcheck.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\">FlackCheck.org: About Us</a></blockquote>', 'A Guide to Effective Fact Checking On-air and Online', 'Five steps for analyzing political ads, nine “patterns of deception” to watch for and specific tips on presentation. Highly practical as ads spiral high in cost and share of air.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'a-guide-to-effective-fact-checking-on-air-and-online', '', '', '2012-10-11 22:12:36', '2012-10-12 05:12:36', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13989', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(13994, 3, '2012-10-11 22:17:22', '2012-10-12 05:17:22', '<blockquote>Economic issues have taken center stage in this year’s elections, as the United  States continues to stagger from the effects of recession and the 2008  global banking crisis. Candidates for federal, state and local offices  are looking to tap into voter discontent about issues like unemployment,  home foreclosures and the government spending.\n\nIt can be tough for journalists to make sense out of candidates’ claims. So the <a href=\"http://sunlightfoundation.com/\">Sunlight Foundation</a> and <a href=\"http://ire.org/\">Investigative Reporters and Editors</a> have teamed up to offer this guide to some of the most authoritative  economic data sets. We’ll provide an explanation of what the indicators  really mean, their weaknesses and how they are created. Also, we’ll  point you to the data and documentation so you can explore for yourself.\n\nWe trust these resources will help you better cover the key issues of this election.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://ire.org/resource-center/econocheck/\" target=\"_blank\">EconoCheck</a></blockquote>', 'EconoCheck', 'Layering a specific need into fact-checking options, Sunlight and IRE join forces, creating this handy way to verify politicians\' economic claims. A guide to datasets, including easy explainers.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'econocheck', '', '', '2012-10-11 22:17:22', '2012-10-12 05:17:22', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13994', 0, 'post', '', 36),
(14087, 3, '2012-10-07 15:37:46', '2012-10-07 22:37:46', 'Branch out into audio, keep a tight eye on Google wallet, and reimagine yourself as an “audience company.” Compare your trends to bigger movement in the industry, celebrate local publishers.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/01/german-newspaper-saved-readers\" target=\"_blank\">The German newspaper saved by its readers</a>\nState support for Die Taz fell with the Berlin Wall, but its community stepped in. Now with 12,000 owners, a possible model?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/google-wallet-experiment-enables-publishers-to-charge-per-article/s2/a550607/ \" target=\"_blank\">Google ‘experiment’ lets content creators charge for articles</a>\nJust months after shutting down One Pass, Google tries a new way to sell content: page by page. Will publishers be able to rack up some pennies?\n\n<a href=\"http://mediareset.com/2012/09/30/figuring-out-this-audience-thing/ \" target=\"_blank\">Creating audience leadership at Morris</a>\nWith decades of newspaper business under his belt, Steve Gray shares \"a minor epiphany\" he had in 2010. \"I began to think about Morris  as an audience company...\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-journalists-are-using-soundcloud.php \" target=\"_blank\">How Journalists Are Using SoundCloud</a>\nSoundCloud grows and journos find the site \"a way to extend their brand and grab the attention of listeners...\" Bonus: links to ReadWriteWeb on journos using Instagram, Pinterest and Google+.\n\n<a href=\"http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/09/open-journalism-open-data-news.html \" target=\"_blank\">Four key trends changing digital journalism and society</a>\nSniffing out common themes in exciting new projects that hint at the journalism path ahead. Ranking high: Collaboration, data and open code.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.thepattersonfoundation.org/blog/spirit-of-sharing-continues-at-third-block-by-block-community-news-summit/\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit of sharing continues at third Block by Block community news summit</a>\nBlock by Block 2012 illuminates growth, savvy of community and local   publishers, sharing \"a belief in local, independently produced news...by people who care about the communities they serve.\"\n\n&nbsp;', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: October 7 – October 17, 2012', 'Branch out into audio, keep a tight eye on Google wallet, and reimagine yourself as an “audience company.” Compare your trends to bigger movement in the industry, celebrate local publishers.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-october-7-october-17-2012', '', '', '2012-10-07 15:37:46', '2012-10-07 22:37:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14087', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(13977, 3, '2012-10-12 11:53:50', '2012-10-12 18:53:50', '<blockquote>SocialNewsDesk is a social media solution built by news people, for news people.  SocialNewsDesk, Inc. creates and sells Social Media Solutions for Newsrooms. From specialized web-based applications to serve as an in-house management  tool for Facebook and Twitter, to customized Facebook tabs, Facebook  game-applications, and ongoing consultation on social media strategy and best practices for local television news organizations.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/socialnewsdesk/info\" target=\"_blank\">Social News Desk</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>As  producers, we get bogged down with stuff to do, so one of the biggest  features we like about SND is the ability to schedule posts. We also  like the reminders from the product that tell us when it\'s been a while  since we\'ve posted. And because this time is customizable, it works for  any newsroom.  Additionally,  it helps us manage all of our talent pages - from the main station page  to anchor and reporter pages. On Twitter, you can see what\'s trending.  On Facebook, you can see how much TRUE interaction there is with content  -- not just number of fans. It helps us know what our realistic reach  is -- not just the idealistic total fan count. Influence is better than  raw numbers. Station managers can leave us notes within the product and  if we forget to post a picture or link or even spell check, it reminds  us before posting. You can even create quizzes for fans to take -- with  \"hints\" all linking back to pages on the station website, meaning page  clicks. There are also customizable ad opportunities.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/social-media-management-software-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\">The Buyer\'s Guide Discussion For Social Media Management Software</a></blockquote>', 'SocialNewsDesk', 'A social media manager designed specifically with TV newsrooms in mind, SocialNewsDesk masterminds audience and fan communication on multiple channels using a streamlined approach.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'socialnewsdesk', '', '', '2012-10-12 11:53:50', '2012-10-12 18:53:50', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=13977', 0, 'post', '', 40),
(14032, 12, '2012-10-16 15:42:36', '2012-10-16 22:42:36', 'Syndicating citizen content, opening local government, collaboration and lessons among local news outlets. Plus, what if you\'re more digi and mobile than the people you\'re working to reach?\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A new engagement tool: opening up City Hall with <a href=\"http://t.co/Lxn34OjF\" title=\"http://OpenGovernment.org\">OpenGovernment.org</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/JWrwj5zN\" title=\"http://kng.ht/QY8FfT\">kng.ht/QY8FfT</a> v @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/ppolitics\">ppolitics</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/opengov\">opengov</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23gov20\">#gov20</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23opengov\">#opengov</a></p>&mdash; Knight Foundation (@knightfdn) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/knightfdn/status/253553756908695553\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-03T17:55:01+00:00\">October 3, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\"What Newspapers can Learn from Hyperlocals\" <a href=\"http://t.co/LfWHPgDN\" title=\"http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Newsletter/Features/What-Newspapers-Can-Learn-From-Hyperlocals\">editorandpublisher.com/Newsletter/Fea…</a></p>&mdash; Jose Requejo Aleman (@JoseRequejo) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JoseRequejo/status/255766609917014017\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-09T20:28:06+00:00\">October 9, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Blottr to launch citizen journalism content syndication network: <a href=\"http://t.co/KdRWOWUz\" title=\"http://bit.ly/Qaj4X8\">bit.ly/Qaj4X8</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a></p>&mdash; Journalism.co.uk (@journalismnews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journalismnews/status/255632833111019520\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-09T11:36:31+00:00\">October 9, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Study: media habits differ between professionals, average consumers <a href=\"http://t.co/fqxRIjY7\" title=\"http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/184604/study-reveals-media-pros-have-digital-media-bias.html\">mediapost.com/publications/a…</a></p>&mdash; SABEW (@SABEW) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SABEW/status/255339977716666369\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-08T16:12:49+00:00\">October 8, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>“@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/poynter\">poynter</a>: St. Louis Public Radio, @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/stlbeacon\">stlbeacon</a> explore possibility of combining resources to expand reporting <a href=\"http://t.co/kW4zZniU\" title=\"http://bit.ly/T5wG4b\">bit.ly/T5wG4b</a>”</p>&mdash; Zach Dyer (@zkdyer) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/zkdyer/status/254242210378293248\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-05T15:30:41+00:00\">October 5, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: October 6 - October 12, 2012', 'Syndicating citizen content, opening local government, collaboration and lessons among local news outlets. Plus, what if you\'re more digi and mobile than the people you\'re working to reach?', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-october-6-october-12-2012', '', '', '2012-10-16 15:42:36', '2012-10-16 22:42:36', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14032', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14117, 3, '2012-10-22 16:23:12', '2012-10-22 23:23:12', 'Connecting with journo-coders, a different paywall model, building business by focusing on your audience, and ethics for electronic journalists. Which is pretty much all of us now!\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Need An Ethics Refresh? RTDNA\'s Code of Ethics &amp; Professional Conduct - <a href=\"http://t.co/Ba77plC8\" title=\"http://bit.ly/Ts5Wv5\">bit.ly/Ts5Wv5</a></p>&mdash; RTDNA (@RTDNA) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/RTDNA/status/257871527259803648\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-15T15:52:17+00:00\">October 15, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How Startups Work Best With Brands: Focus On the User <a href=\"http://t.co/UQ9yeV6y\" title=\"http://adage.com/u/Do8tyb\">adage.com/u/Do8tyb</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/adage\">adage</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mashable\">mashable</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23startups\">#startups</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23advertising\">#advertising</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23digitalmedia\">#digitalmedia</a></p>&mdash; Amy Merksamer (@amerks) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/amerks/status/256126279387078656\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-10T20:17:18+00:00\">October 10, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The Globe and Mail will launch Globe Unlimited, a new pay model for digital journalism in Canada. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/BlWDG8wB\" title=\"http://www.theglobeandmail.com/help/globe-unlimited/an-enhanced-and-enriched-experience-for-globe-subscribers/article4612315/?cmpid=rss1\">theglobeandmail.com/help/globe-unl…</a></p>&mdash; ChronCulture (@ChronCulture) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChronCulture/status/258679364433088512\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-17T21:22:21+00:00\">October 17, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Amplification &amp; the changing role of media (@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/om\">om</a> / GigaOM) <a href=\"http://t.co/YNtd7bLR\" title=\"http://gigaom.com/2012/10/13/amplification-the-changing-role-of-media/\">gigaom.com/2012/10/13/amp…</a> (via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mediagazer\">mediagazer</a>)</p>&mdash; The Content Economy (@contenteconomy) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/contenteconomy/status/257961675444088834\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-15T21:50:30+00:00\">October 15, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>.@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/source\">source</a>: site about <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> code from @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/opennews\">opennews</a> team<a href=\"http://t.co/qeYCTeGt\" title=\"http://source.mozillaopennews.org\">source.mozillaopennews.org</a> Community page especially helpful, say @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/knightlab\">knightlab</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/rcgraff\">rcgraff</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/260456663784501248\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-22T19:04:42+00:00\">October 22, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: October 13 - October 19, 2012', 'Connecting with journo-coders, a different paywall model, building business by focusing on your audience, and ethics for electronic journalists. Which is pretty much all of us now!', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-october-13-october-19-2012', '', '', '2012-10-22 16:23:12', '2012-10-22 23:23:12', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14117', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14118, 12, '2012-10-22 11:36:49', '2012-10-22 18:36:49', '<div class=\"underwrite\"><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/socialnewsdesk1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13987\" title=\"socialnewsdesk\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/socialnewsdesk1.png\" alt=\"socialnewsdesk\" width=\"250\" height=\"67\" /></a>\nFormer journalist <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/kimberly-wilson/\">Kimberly Wilson</a> started <a title=\"SocialNewsDesk\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/\">SocialNewsDesk</a> to tailor social media management to the quirks of a newsroom. She wanted to solve three problems she saw in newsrooms social media management: organization, security and setting goals.&nbsp;\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>What are the biggest challenges for news organizations juggling multiple social media platforms? In the ever-changing, character-limited continuum of Twitter and Facebook, what ways can you most effectively build your business, organize your system, engage your audience with information that is useful to them, maintain internal confidentiality and synchronize the work of your team?</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>To understand how deliberate systematization can optimize your social media presence on a large or small scale, we invited <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/%23comment-2542\">SocialNewsDesk</a> founder <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/kimberly-wilson/\">Kimberly Wilson</a> and social media curator <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/cynthiaparkhill/\">Cynthia Parkhill</a> to <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2557\">share</a> their expertise and experience. It’s part of our regular series of live conversations showcasing <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/topics/resources/\">resources</a> that offer support to the journalism community. <!--more--></em></p>\nAs we have recently seen with the <a href=\"http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/after-an-outburst-on-twitter-the-times-reinforces-its-social-media-guidelines/\">Twitter scandal involving a freelancer who writes for the New York Times Magazine</a>, news organizations have a need to be particularly careful with social messaging. In the most recent Journalism Accelerator <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk\">resource Q&amp;A</a>, <strong>journalist-turned-social-media-entrepreneur Kim Wilson identified </strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2530\"><strong>three major challenges</strong></a><strong> in social media management today: organization, security and goal setting.</strong>\n<h3><strong>Establishing a practical vision</strong></h3>\nForum participant Anne Derryberry “couldn’t agree more” that “a clear purpose and intention” are vital for a successful social media strategy. Anne <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2542\">got practical</a> with her questions: Where do you start, and what do you shoot for? Kim suggested <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2548\">determining website referral traffic, building brand and community outreach, and establishing goals for monetization</a>. She gave examples of how SocialNewsDesk had helped newsrooms develop those aspects<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2545\">. Cynthia Parkhill concurred</a> with Kim’s priorities, recommending <a href=\"http://www.google.com/alerts\">Google Alerts</a> and integrated <a href=\"http://www.google.com/analytics/\">Google Analytics</a> to track personal branding and blog referral traffic.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>Two needs, two strategies</h3>\n<img style=\"padding: 5px; padding-right: 10px; margin: 0px;\" src=\"https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1963632468/KimWilson_128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" align=\"left\" /> SocialNewsDesk founder <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/kimberly-wilson/\">Kimberly Wilson</a> says she designed the social media management system for large newsrooms handling multiple social accounts. She says it helps \"standardize workflow\" and \"enforce best practices\".\n\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2250293153/Parkhill_SQ_MUG_72DPI_Volunteering_at_Lakeport_library_reasonably_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" align=\"left\" /> As the social media curator for a small hyperlocal news site and an independent blogger, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/cynthiaparkhill/\">Cynthia Parkhill</a> chooses to build her social media management system with free web tools. She says it\'s too small scale to justify investing in a social management system, plus she values \"gaining an additional skill with which to benefit an employer\".\n\n</div>\n<h3><strong>Working together: Responsibility and accountability</strong></h3>\nAs both social media platforms and organizations develop, posting content from multiple sources across multiple platforms can get complicated. Kim gave great <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2544\">practical advice on team coordination</a>: Keep track of who posts what, create detailed reports of posting history, and maintain tight control on user-level access. To assist in organization, Cynthia suggested a few <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2540\">free tools</a> to help manage multiple accounts and types of contacts.\n<h3><strong>How to track progress ­– and why</strong></h3>\nAnother vital aspect of a successful management system is knowing what works (and what doesn’t). To gauge this, analyzing the results of your social media outreach and using that information to inform your future decisions is key. Kim and I agreed ­– create frequent reports on social media performance to measure engagement and site traffic response. But The Oregonian’s social media manager Alexandra Manzano pointed out that <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2560\">current platforms limit tracking:</a>\n\n“With Twitter’s API generally being limited to 7 days back and Facebook’s newer limitation of the 90 day window — it is hard to find the time to pull together and analyze our many types of social media daily or even weekly.”\n\n<strong>To alleviate this problem, I suggested two <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2565\">time-saving tools</a>, <a href=\"http://hootsuite.com/\">Hootsuite’s</a> tweet archiving function and <a href=\"http://crowdbooster.com/\">Crowdbooster’s</a> reach assessment capability.</strong>\n<h3><strong>When is it worth the money?</strong></h3>\n<strong>At what point is it worth investing in a social media management system?</strong> Kim says that decision <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2556\">comes down to size and goals</a>. In Cynthia’s experience, generic tools like Tweetdeck and Google Analytics can work for one person or a small organization, but Kim says she started SocialNewsDesk because those options often fall short for newsrooms with a large team and multiple social accounts.\n\n<strong>What do you think are the biggest challenges for news organizations working with social media today?</strong> Do you have any specific questions the experts in this conversation could answer?  Or can you offer any tips for optimizing management based on your own experience? <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/socialnewsdesk/#comment-2530\">The full conversation is still open for comments.</a> People who participated will get notified when you post and be able to reply, so jump on in to share your knowledge or questions!', 'JA Resource Q&amp;A: A social strategy of &quot;purpose and intention&quot;', 'Whether you’re part of a large media company or a solo show, how to build a social management system that’s organized and strategic. Highlights from a JA resource Q&A.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-qa-a-social-strategy-of-purpose-and-intention', '', '', '2012-10-22 11:36:49', '2012-10-22 18:36:49', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14118', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14193, 3, '2012-10-25 18:00:14', '2012-10-26 01:00:14', '<blockquote>With a few quick steps, you can turn your old comment system into a new way to engage your visitors. From small blogs to massive websites, Disqus is [an easy way] to build active communities. It\'s free to use and works with virtually any type of website.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Disqus\" href=\"http://disqus.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Disqus</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next. Using the Disqus’ built-in network effects, bloggers and publishers can expect a higher volume and higher quality of conversations by using the comment system.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Crunch Base: Disqus\" href=\"http://www.crunchbase.com/company/disqus\" target=\"_blank\">Crunch Base</a></blockquote>', 'Disqus', 'Designed to play well with WordPress, Tumblr, Drupal, Blogger, HTML and JS. A drag or drop comment system offering a free version you can experiment with to encourage an active online community.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'disqus', '', '', '2012-10-25 18:00:14', '2012-10-26 01:00:14', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14193', 0, 'post', '', 31),
(14205, 3, '2012-10-25 17:55:59', '2012-10-26 00:55:59', '<blockquote>Enter any word, phrase, hashtag, URL or username and TweetCharts will return a comprehensive report, including data on reply, retweet, and link percentages as well as the most common words, most mentioned users, most used hashtags and more.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://danzarrella.com/introducing-tweetcharts-com-get-the-twitter-data-you-need.html#\">Dan Zarrella, TweetCharts</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>TweetCharts, a new site from Hubspot, does the data crunching for you. Just plug in your phrase or hashtag. It searches the past week’s tweets, and then, pops out lots of pretty charts to show your bosses you’re not just wasting your time tracking or participating in the Twitter conversation. The site explains at a glance who’s talking about the topic and generally, what they’re linking to or how engaged they are in the words you’re looking at.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/whos-tweeting-about-your-beat-tweetcharts_b12835\">MediaBistro</a></blockquote>', 'TweetCharts', 'Find people tweeting about your local stories and beats. TweetCharts lets users compile a comprehensive report based on any hashtag, username, word, phrase, or URL.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweetcharts', '', '', '2012-10-25 17:55:59', '2012-10-26 00:55:59', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14205', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14209, 3, '2012-10-25 17:56:02', '2012-10-26 00:56:02', '<blockquote>Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web through either a smartphone or tablet, significantly more than a year ago, and this has major implications for how news will be consumed and paid for, according to a detailed new survey of news use on mobile devices by the Pew Research Center\'s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) in collaboration with The Economist Group. ...\n\nNews remains an important part of what people do on their mobile devices-64% of tablet owners and 62% of smartphone owners say they use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone). This means fully a third of all U.S. adults now get news on a mobile device at least once a week.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/future_mobile_news\">Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism</a></blockquote>', 'Pew Report: Future of Mobile News', 'As the number of Americans getting news on mobile devices rapidly expands, a Pew study shows ways media organizations can hone strategy to match human habits.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'pew-report-future-of-mobile-news', '', '', '2012-10-25 17:56:02', '2012-10-26 00:56:02', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14209', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14217, 3, '2012-10-25 17:56:03', '2012-10-26 00:56:03', '<blockquote>So, you have an idea for a new journalism start-up. You\'re thinking about making the plunge, but you\'re not sure whether the entrepreneurial life is for you. Or maybe you\'ve decided to launch a venture, and you\'re looking guidance in the crucial weeks and months at the beginning of your project.\n\nThis course aims to give participants the knowledge and tools needed to launch content-driven news/information websites. We\'ll take you from idea to implementation and, when necessary, help you retool or replace ideas with better versions.\n\nIf you\'re considering starting a news or information-oriented website, this course will help you decide whether an entrepreneurial path is the right one for you. And if you\'re looking for a crash course on starting a business, it will show you the ropes, point you to the right resources and help you formulate the questions you most need answers to.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.newsu.org/courses/entrepreneur-idea-implementation\">Poynter’s News University</a></blockquote>', 'Becoming an Entrepreneurial Journalist: From Idea to Implementation', 'Looking to start your own news biz? Mark Briggs teams up with Poynter in an online course: Entrepreneurial journalism - from idea to implementation. A low-cost investment in practical learning.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'becoming-an-entrepreneurial-journalist-from-idea-to-implementation', '', '', '2012-10-25 17:56:03', '2012-10-26 00:56:03', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14217', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14379, 3, '2012-10-29 17:28:04', '2012-10-30 00:28:04', 'Advertisers on the new, online-only Newsweek. A promise of affordable custom apps. Deep ethics discussions, a handy plagiarism quiz, and an inspiring roundtable on accountability journalism.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">Create custom <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23mobile\">#mobile</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23websites\">#websites</a> - Polar Mobile arms publishers with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23MediaEverywhere\">#MediaEverywhere</a> HTML5 tool: <a title=\"http://ow.ly/eBRZy\" href=\"http://t.co/bQoCE2El\">ow.ly/eBRZy</a>\n\n— PubzMe (@PubzMe) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PubzMe/status/259311957700665344\">October 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\nHere\'s my plagiarism quiz to teach attribution standards in your newsroom: <a title=\"http://wp.me/poqp6-1Sp\" href=\"http://t.co/rQBNdkof\">wp.me/poqp6-1Sp</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23PoynterEthics\">#PoynterEthics</a>\n\n— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/stevebuttry/status/260834003161055233\">October 23, 2012</a>\n</blockquote>\n\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\"></script>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">Editors, leaders &amp; founders of <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23nonprofit\">#nonprofit</a> journo orgs discuss importance of accountability <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> (video): <a title=\"http://youtu.be/yb76oHR4-ak\" href=\"http://t.co/h26w5pVU\">; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) </a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/261467814542581760\">October 25, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\nMedia agency leaders respond to @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/newsweek\">newsweek</a>\'s decision to deliver digital-only content: <a title=\"http://nyti.ms/RMT1Yr\" href=\"http://t.co/iAONrPz1\">nyti.ms/RMT1Yr</a>\n\n— J.C. Bouvier (@jcbouvier) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jcbouvier/status/259310509696888832\">October 19, 2012</a>\n</blockquote>\n\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\"></script>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">RT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/poynter\">poynter</a>: \"To create a self-informed community is an incredible act of journalism\": <a title=\"http://journ.us/Smd7WO\" href=\"http://t.co/dKVcdhZ2\">journ.us/Smd7WO</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23poynterethics\">#poynterethics</a>\n\n— nancyrubin (@nancyrubin) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nancyrubin/status/260780464573411328\">October 23, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: October 20 - October 26, 2012', 'Advertisers on the new, online-only Newsweek. A promise of affordable custom apps. Deep ethics discussions, a handy plagiarism quiz, and an inspiring roundtable on accountability journalism.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-october-20-october-26-2012', '', '', '2012-10-29 17:28:04', '2012-10-30 00:28:04', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14379', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14944, 3, '2012-11-02 10:16:46', '2012-11-02 17:16:46', 'Tools to manage trolls, turning experts into journalists, and some evidence of the limits of sponsored content. Plus, how to consider news in subatomic particles.\n\n<a href=\"http://gigaom.com/2012/10/15/circa-wants-to-rethink-the-news-at-a-sub-atomic-level/\" target=\"_blank\">Circa wants to rethink the way we consume the news on a sub-atomic level</a>\nAs news consumption shifts to mobile devices,  an experiment in repackaging  content to optimize reader desire.\n\n<a href=\"http://paidcontent.org/2012/10/11/comment-voting-ars-technicas-new-solution-to-shills-and-kooks/\" target=\"_blank\">Comment Voting: Ars Technica’s new solution to shills and kooks</a>\nSick of bad apples trolling? Check out tech-oriented website Ars Technica’s comment voting system, a tool to separate the good from the rotten.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/10/robert-steiner-in-toronto-were-dumping-the-j-school-model-to-produce-a-new-kind-of-reporter/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Steiner: In Toronto, we’re dumping the j-school model to produce a new kind of reporter</a>\nTeaching subject experts journalism instead of the other way around as a way to deepen news and spread knowledge. A model for publications to tap and train their own local expertise?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/10/how-to-make-your-journalism-project-succeed-on-kickstarter/?fromfloater\" target=\"_blank\">How to make your journalism project succeed on Kickstarter</a>\nConsidering Kickstarter? Read this deep and practical assessment of specific challenges journalism projects face, plus tricks to ratchet up your chances of success.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/capitalist_content_j7CE4HNCKlYRrUlhjcgLtL\" target=\"_blank\">Capitalist content: Forbes’ ad-sponsored stories stir controversy</a>\nIn the search for new revenue partnerships, Forbes pushes the envelope on advertiser-sponsored stories , and learns controversy can come with cash.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/career-development/ask-the-recruiter/190840/live-chat-today-the-skills-you-need-to-become-a-better-multimedia-journalist/\" target=\"_blank\">The skills you need to become a better multimedia journalist</a>\nBall State professor Jennifer George-Palilonis offers useful tips on tools, workflow and collaborative efforts needed to transform into a multimedia reporter.', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: October 7 – November 2, 2012', 'Tools to manage trolls, turning experts into journalists, and some evidence of the limits of sponsored content. Plus, how to consider news in subatomic particles.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-october-7-november-2-2012', '', '', '2012-11-02 10:16:46', '2012-11-02 17:16:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14944', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(14971, 3, '2012-11-05 16:38:46', '2012-11-06 00:38:46', 'Where do two big ideas - compassion, and collaboration – really fit in journalism? Tools for emergency reporting, including a front-line test in Superstorm Sandy. And listening on Twitter.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23FOIAchat\">#FOIAchat</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/ejcnet\">ejcnet</a> has a site dedicated to emergency journalism reporting: <a href=\"http://t.co/SOq9v4Rd\" title=\"http://emergencyjournalism.net/\">emergencyjournalism.net</a> And a hashtag: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23emjo\">#emjo</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/264436057175621632\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-02T18:37:23+00:00\">November 2, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Twutorial\">#Twutorial</a> guest post by @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mwecker\">mwecker</a>: How to use Twitter to find the best sources <a href=\"http://t.co/LlflfPY5\" title=\"http://wp.me/poqp6-2xy\">wp.me/poqp6-2xy</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a></p>&mdash; Ebyline (@Ebyline) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Ebyline/status/263683317562482688\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-31T16:46:16+00:00\">October 31, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How one determined journalist created a news bureau to cover New Jersey statewide during <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Sandy\">#Sandy</a>. <a href=\"http://t.co/K9pP2uFA\" title=\"http://goo.gl/SaUmp\">goo.gl/SaUmp</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23mybxb\">#mybxb</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23scribblelive\">#scribblelive</a></p>&mdash; Sally Duros (@saduros) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/saduros/status/263692939555905536\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-31T17:24:30+00:00\">October 31, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Compassion is not journalism’s downfall, it’s journalism’s salvation | Poynter.: <a href=\"http://t.co/FDaNy5nw\" title=\"http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/193090/compassion-is-not-journalisms-downfall-its-journalisms-salvation/#.UIqqIcB5Q2E.twitter\">poynter.org/how-tos/newsga…</a></p>&mdash; Omar Sofradzija @MSU (@omars81) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/omars81/status/261849708702601216\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-26T15:20:10+00:00\">October 26, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>.@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/knightfdn\">knightfdn</a> \'s John Bracken (@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/jsb\">jsb</a>): Funders Shouldn\'t Force <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Collaboration\">#Collaboration</a>. By @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/amanda_hirsch\">amanda_hirsch</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/6udiNGnp\" title=\"http://to.pbs.org/QSvSSf\">to.pbs.org/QSvSSf</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/263642856936321024\" data-datetime=\"2012-10-31T14:05:29+00:00\">October 31, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n', 'Tweets for Keeps: October 27 - November 2, 2012', 'Where do two big ideas - compassion, and collaboration – really fit in journalism? Tools for emergency reporting, including a front-line test in Superstorm Sandy. And listening on Twitter.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-october-27-november-2-2012', '', '', '2012-11-05 16:38:46', '2012-11-06 00:38:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14971', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(14997, 17, '2012-11-09 13:15:44', '2012-11-09 21:15:44', '<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">A huge experiment</h3>\n<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CJET-map.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\"><img src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CJET-map.jpg\" alt=\"CJET Map\" width=\"250\" height=\"134\" /></a>\n\nCJET brought more than thirty community and investigative publishers together for intensive, hands-on business training. <a title=\"CJET: Building Sustainable Journalism\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/cjet/\">Check out</a> presentations and resources that emerged, <a title=\"CJET: Business Essentials and Best Practices\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/cjet-2/\">download</a> useful know-how.\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>It felt odd to consider “exit strategy” at the recent <a href=\"http://www.investigativenewsnetwork.org/news/new-executive-training-program-community-news-publishers-launched-investigative-news-network\" target=\"_blank\">Community Journalism Executive Training program</a></strong>, which brought nearly three dozen news organizations to Los Angeles for two days of intense, <a title=\"CJET\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/projects/cjet/\">hands-on work</a> developing specific business strategies and action plans. </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>After all, the vast majority of organizations attending only opened their doors a few years ago.</strong> </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>But the training, funded by the <a href=\"http://www.knightfoundation.org/what-we-fund/innovating-media\" target=\"_blank\">Knight Foundation</a>, <a href=\"http://www.thepattersonfoundation.org/\">The Patterson Foundation</a> and the <a href=\"http://www.mccormickfoundation.org/\">McCormick Foundation</a>, hosted by the <a title=\"Knight Digital Media Center\" href=\"http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Knight Digital Media Center</a> and organized by the <a href=\"http://www.investigativenewsnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative News Network</a>, aimed to <strong>equip people running startup community and investigative media outlets with the skills and attitude to pull their business-owner hats firmly down on their heads – and wear them all the time. </strong></em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>And that means thinking about exit strategy.<!--more--> </strong></em></p>\nFrom the start, CJET publishers seemed an eager bunch. A few minutes before the first presentation of the first full day, all were in their seats, facing forward.\n\nThe opening question focused on the future – looking further than some were perhaps ready to go.\n\n<strong>“What, really, is your exit strategy?”</strong> asked <a title=\"Rusty Coats\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/rcoats/\">Rusty Coats</a> of <a title=\"Coats2coats\" href=\"http://www.coats2coats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Coats2Coats</a>, who created the CJET curriculum. “If you have no exit strategy, you have no ability to define success. If you don’t have your eye on where this is going, you don’t know where you are.”\n\n<strong>Many publishers figured “exit strategy” meant calling it quits.</strong> I later asked people if they had thought about their exit strategy before beginning the business training.\n\n“Besides turning off the site?” replied Jesus Sanchez, who covers several Los Angeles neighborhoods on his site, <a title=\"The Eastsider LA\" href=\"http://www.theeastsiderla.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Eastsider LA</a>.\n\n“Yeah, we give up,” said Trevor Aaronson, co-director of the <a href=\"http://fcir.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Center for Investigative Reporting</a>.\n\n“More of a disaster strategy. The cliff,” said Brent Gardner Smith of <a title=\"Aspen Journalism\" href=\"http://aspenjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Journalism</a>.\n\n“No,” said <a title=\"100 Reporters\" href=\"http://100r.org/\" target=\"_blank\">100 Reporters</a> founder Diana Jean Schemo. “To me it means sort of like a DNR, do not resuscitate strategy. I came here seeking a survival strategy.”\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_15020\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"350\" caption=\"Publishers confer at CJET training in Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Jessica Plautz, INN.\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-15020\" title=\"CJET Blog 1\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CJET-Blog-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" />[/caption]\n<h3>Survive, sustain, sell?</h3>\nFor some CJET participants, focusing on exit strategy felt just plain wrong.\n\n<strong>“I disagree profoundly that the notion of exit strategy is important,” </strong>said Lance Knobel, one of three founders of the independent California news site <a title=\"Berkeleyside\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside</a>.\n\nKnobel brings a background in economics, strategy and management, as well as journalism, to the local news organization. He said <strong>thinking exit strategy may be fine for venture capitalists, but he believes it’s “exactly the wrong thing” to consider if you are an entrepreneur seeking to build a lasting institution.</strong> “I actually think is a big negative, a really dangerous thing,” Knobel said. “Energies and concentration needs to be on how do we get this to a really durable sustainable state?”\n\nBerkeleyside is successful by many counts. Unique monthly visitors periodically come in higher than the city’s population, events sometimes beat even the organizers’ expectations and other media turn to Berkeleyside staff as experts on local issues. But Knobel said it’s not yet clearly sustainable – to the point the founders could depart and the site would carry on.\n\nNeither is <a title=\"Yellowstone Gate\" href=\"http://www.yellowstonegate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Yellowstone Gate</a>, a site covering the national park and the five communities surrounding it. Founder and editor Ruffin Prevost wants to sell Yellowstone Gate eventually, but he agrees that focusing on his exit strategy now is not important in the short or mid-term.\n\n“It\'s important to focus on that somewhat, so you know it has to be something that has real world value,” Prevost said. “If you\'re not doing that, it means you\'re probably not returning value to your readers or your advertisers.”\n\nBut two years after starting the site, thinking about exit strategy doesn’t sit comfortably with him.  <strong>“If you focus too much on directly monetizing that you lose sight of the whole idea of building some community service into the model.”</strong>\n\nBrandy Tuzon Boyd, who started <a title=\"The Natomas Buzz\" href=\"http://www.natomasbuzz.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Natomas Buzz</a> to cover her community in Sacramento said spending time developing an exit strategy is not a priority. “My priority is taking my website from a passion project to a viable business,” she said. “That’s really the long-term goal for me at this point.”\n<h3>Change “exit” to “legacy”</h3>\nCJET curriculum creator (and small business owner) Rusty Coats said it is never premature to plan further than your current focus. He said this business norm may feel jarring to journalists, but thinking as far out as the end can help get you where you want to go.\n\n“I don’t know a single startup business outside the indie news space that doesn’t articulate its exit strategy up front,” Coats said. “That sets the path for growth and helps set benchmarks for success.”\n\nHe said publishers can use a different word if they want. <strong>“Substitute the words “exit strategy” with “legacy” and you get to the same place,”</strong> Coats said. “It doesn’t mean being bought out as much as it means evolving.”\n\nCJET participants do know where they want their organizations to go. Suzanne McBride wants <a title=\"Austintalks.org\" href=\"http://austintalks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">AustinTalks.org</a>, based at <a title=\"Columbia College Chicago\" href=\"http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Journalism/\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia College Chicago</a> and covering a nearby neighborhood, to become a model for colleges creating news sites in underserved communities. Lance Knobel wants Berkeleyside to become an “enduring institution.” Teresa Wippel would be thrilled to leave <a title=\"MyEdmondNews\" href=\"http://myedmondsnews.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MyEdmondNews</a> in the hands of her writer son. Mark Thomas wants to take <a title=\"City Limits\" href=\"http://www.citylimits.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityLimits</a> as far down the sustainability path as he can before the next director of the organization comes in. How far is far enough? “Where you can see two years ahead, and if they do the same things you’d been doing they’d be OK,” Thomas said.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_15020\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"350\" caption=\"Community publishers in CJET training. Photo Credit: Jessica Plautz, INN.\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-15020\" title=\"CJET Blog 2\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CJET-Blog-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" />[/caption]\n<h3>Exit as opportunity</h3>\nJason Alcorn was one of the few participants in CJET whose job focuses on financials more than editorial.  He is director of development and community engagement for <a title=\"Investigate West\" href=\"http://www.invw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Investigate West</a>, a nonprofit that partners with other news organizations to sell or distribute its stories. Alcorn said internal conversations about the organization’s future are always put in the context of market assessment. “How do we fit in?” he asked. “We’re complementary to larger investigative news nonprofits, like <a href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CIR</a> or <a title=\"ProPublica\" href=\"http://www.propublica.org/\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica</a>. So <strong>in the same breath we see a business opportunity there, we see an exit strategy, potentially</strong>.”\n\nAlcorn said this is contingency thinking – Investigate West’s intent is to succeed as a stand-alone news outlet.  But he acknowledges some things are out of the organization’s control, and broad thinking embraces that.\n\nNed Berke, running the Brooklyn neighborhood site <a title=\"Sheepshead Bites\" href=\"http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sheepshead Bites</a>, said thinking exit strategy led him to imagine a few different futures. “One is sell the business, one is make sure it can survive without me, or third, turn it into something larger.”\n\nAnd Amy Senk, founder (and chief everything) of <a title=\"Corona del Mar Today\" href=\"http://www.coronadelmartoday.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Corona del Mar Today</a> said considering possible exit strategies gave her ideas for ways out beyond just shutting down.\n\n“I was thinking I would probably just stop doing it, and I don’t know, maybe find a job,” she said on the last day of the CJET training. “Now I’m thinking maybe I’d merge with another paper, or another site, or maybe I would have staff writers who I could direct and I could do more of a publisher role.”\n<h3>A personal exit strategy</h3>\nNo matter the future of their organizations, many CJET publishers don’t want to spend the rest of their lives as deeply involved as they are now.\n\n<strong>“What I think is important in exit strategy is succession,” </strong>said Brian Wheeler, executive director of <a title=\"Charlottesville Tomorrow\" href=\"http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>. “I’m assuming the organization will keep going, but I need a plan to make sure someone else can come in and take it over some day.”\n\nAnne Galloway of <a title=\"VTDigger.org\" href=\"http://vtdigger.org/\" target=\"_blank\">VTDigger.org</a> agrees. Although she told me on the last day of CJET she “still” hadn’t developed an exit strategy, she thinks about it in terms of the next generation. “Building a large enough staff and infrastructure that I could step away from the role of executive director,” she said. “I’m really sort of training people up, and trying to raise enough money, and build our brand enough to get there.”\n<h3>Engaged in a huge experiment</h3>\nDuring the CJET session when Coats asked publishers about their exit strategies, one participant asked a particularly potent question.\n\n“The assumption is,” she said, “that if we do these things you’re telling us to do, the charitable world and the world of commerce will embrace us.” But it felt to her – and many in the room – that this is an untrod path – that community and investigative publishers are actually “engaged in a huge experiment.”\n\nCoats could only agree. And again, saw opportunity. <strong>He told everyone in the room that how they build their businesses will lay the foundation for the future of local publishing – investigative, community, regional, non- or for-profit.</strong> “This work,” he said, “begins to inform the model…of what is possible” in building new journalism businesses in a sustainable way.', 'Community Journalism Executive Training: Define your exit to build a legacy', 'Challenging community publishers to think about an exit strategy at CJET reveals it’s not just about selling out. From survive to sustain to partner, sell or build a legacy.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'community-journalism-executive-training-what-really-is-your-exit-strategy', '', '', '2012-11-09 13:15:44', '2012-11-09 21:15:44', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=14997', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(15044, 3, '2012-11-08 14:02:54', '2012-11-08 22:02:54', '<blockquote>Emergency  Journalism is an initiative of the European Journalism Centre that  brings together relevant news and resources for media professionals  reporting in volatile situations. The website focuses on tools that use  up-to-date digital technology, from content curation tools to  multi-layered live maps, to support media coverage of emergencies such  as natural disasters and political conflicts.\n\nEvery  emergency is different, yet no matter the circumstances, there are  tools that can help journalists during the newsgathering process, and  when dealing with big data, limited resources and tight deadlines. Under  such circumstances, accuracy, timeliness and quality content from  journalists can ultimately contribute to effective relief and  humanitarian response...\n\nThis  website will help journalists to stay informed and updated on the  topics that are related to emergency journalism in digital age.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Emergency Journalism\" href=\"http://emergencyjournalism.net/about-the-project/\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency Journalism</a></blockquote>', 'Emergency Journalism: Toolkit for better and accurate reporting', 'Tested reporting tools and tips to cover community emergencies from massive storms to outbreaks of violence. Find ways to mashup maps, efficiently use online sources, quickly verify social media.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'emergency-journalism-toolkit-for-better-and-accurate-reporting', '', '', '2012-11-08 14:02:54', '2012-11-08 22:02:54', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15044', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15051, 3, '2012-11-09 10:34:25', '2012-11-09 18:34:25', '<blockquote>We deconstruct journalists\' use of sources and statements, and make visible the patterns that exist within their stories. In other words, we  are laying bare the ingredients of journalists\' stories. As we do so, we are performing a service that has the potential to highlight how professional journalism is necessarily different from social media, and to reinvigorate the societal appreciation for an independent and professional 4th Estate.\n\nBy  making the ingredients of news available to the public in real time, we introduce a level of transparency into the journalist-reader exchange  that will be <a href=\"http://pressthink.org/2012/04/rosens-trust-puzzler-what-explains-falling-confidence-in-the-press/\">required in establishing trust for the readers of tomorrow</a> -- readers for whom social media has transformed how they engage and interact with the world. \"Authenticity\" is now revered by the proponents  of new media, but it is not the same thing nor does it carry the same  weight as authority. Authority requires context as well as multiple and repeatable access. Privileged access combined with getting out of the chair and getting onto an actual \"beat,\" creates an information product  that is usually unattainable by social media practitioners. <a href=\"http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2012/05/occupy-skepticism-journalism-and-fallacy-authority\">That is not to say that traditional journalists do not make mistakes and betray their authority</a>, but it happens rarely as compared to in the social media realm...\n\nWe are deep in the planning stages of designing what we will be… after the election. We will, of course, at some point expand our coverage into  other vertical high-impact domains such as Energy Policy, Healthcare, and the Financial Markets in some form. But what we are truly excited  about is expanding in highly specific ways into these other domains. For example, rather than analyzing Energy in an overly general fashion, we will analyze Energy as a domain that includes multiple interconnected domains such as \"Energy Sources,\" \"Climate Change\" and \"Extraction.\" Eventually, we envision the 4th Estate Project as a repository that  spans all of the important issues and stories of the day, and allows a  trusted journalist-reader relationship to flourish in the brave new  transparent world of today.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"4th Estate co-founder Michael Howe on PBS MediaShift\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/10/4th-estate-project-brings-transparency-to-journalist-source-relations299.html\" target=\"_blank\">4th Estate co-founder Michael Howe on PBS MediaShift</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>That journalism struggles with racial diversity is old news, but a study...by <a href=\"http://www.4thestate.net/\">The 4th Estate</a> tried to quantify the magnitude of the problem. The organization released an <a href=\"http://www.4thestate.net/bleached-lack-of-diversity-in-newsroom-front-page-election-coverage/\">infographic</a> showing that, among the 38 most influential newspapers in the country,  93 percent of front-page articles about the 2012 election were written  by white reporters. The infographic received a <a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/192951/study-whites-write-93-of-front-page-election-stories/\">host</a> of <a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/infographic-the-enormous-racial-gap-in-political-reporting/264080/\">coverage</a>.\n\nAll  that coverage had to be updated. The 4th Estate, a nonpartisan project  that gathers data on media election coverage, didn’t get it all quite  right the first time...\n\n[The  4th Estate co-founder Michael] Howe says the graphic released on  Thursday contained data that hadn’t been thoroughly checked. He adds:  “In the social media world there’s always the pressure between getting  something out and factchecking.” With the debates over and the election  nearing, the organization felt it necessary to release its study  quickly.\n\n“If we knew we were stepping into this explosive zone, maybe we’d have done something different,” says Howe. <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Columbia Journalism Review\" href=\"http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_4th_estate_corrects_its_nu.php\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia Journalism Review</a></blockquote>', 'The 4th Estate Project', 'Quantifying sources and statements with statistical analyses of media reports, distilling data into useful infographics, The 4th Estate Project aims to show the value of professional journalism.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'the-4th-estate-project', '', '', '2012-11-09 10:34:25', '2012-11-09 18:34:25', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15051', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15057, 3, '2012-11-09 10:31:41', '2012-11-09 18:31:41', '<blockquote>Science journalism is changing, but the ability to recognize and sharpen important ideas, ask incisive questions about complex subjects, and tell accurate, compelling stories — often on shorter deadlines and with fewer reporting and editorial resources than ever before — will always be essential. The best science journalists do not merely translate the latest scientific discoveries into lay language, but provide nuanced context and critical analysis. Well-trained journalists can explain how a new finding fits into previous research, why the research matters, and where important tensions and debates lie. And they shed light on the human characters behind the findings, understanding that scientists are fallible and scientific advancement is cumulative.\n\nSuch expert synthesis and critical analysis takes thoughtfulness and skill. The Open Notebook is the only online resource dedicated to science journalism as craft.\n<h3>What We Do</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li> In our popular <em>Story-Behind-the-Story</em> interviews, The Open Notebook asks science journalists to deconstruct their working process, from inception to completion. These features, edited for length and clarity, also typically include supplementary materials such as pitch letters, notes, draft excerpts, edits, and other behind-the-scenes resources that illustrate how one story evolved over time.</li>\n	<li> Our topical features focus on specific elements of the craft of science journalism — for example, finding an effective narrative structure; taking good notes; finding and sharpening story ideas; or pitching stories well.</li>\n	<li> The Open Notebook’s <em>Ask TON</em> series invites our audience to privately submit craft-related questions, which we then pose to experienced writers and editors, allowing journalists of all experience levels to tap into the expertise of their peers.</li>\n	<li> The TON pitch database is a searchable resource containing dozens of successful feature queries to a wide range of publications. This unique tool gives science journalists the opportunity to study the first — and often the most difficult — step in producing outstanding science stories.</li>\n</ul>\nPart practical guidance, part writerly voyeurism, TON’s <em>Natural Habitat</em> series visits science writers in their working spaces — from home offices to coffee shops to  hammocks — and invites them to share the accoutrements that help them do their best work.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"The Open Notebook\" href=\"http://www.theopennotebook.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">The Open Notebook</a></blockquote>', 'The Open Notebook', 'Dedicated to the craft of science journalism, TON is useful for any reporter, offering sample pitches, tips on thinking, asking, writing, and a handy advice column tapping wisdom and experience.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'the-open-notebook', '', '', '2012-11-09 10:31:41', '2012-11-09 18:31:41', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15057', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15065, 3, '2012-11-09 10:32:04', '2012-11-09 18:32:04', '<blockquote>The future of local accountability journalism in communities across the country is at stake in the chaotic digital reconstruction of American journalism. As commercial news media struggle to reinvent themselves and survive, a growing number of emerging nonprofit news organizations are trying to fill gaps left in local accountability reporting....\n\nLeaders of a number of these nonprofits – along with foundations and philanthropists helping to support them – met [in early 2012] at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication for a national conference, Exploring the Role of Philanthropy in Local Accountability Journalism, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.\n\nThey discussed how to carry out a key recommendation of the 2011 report of the Federal Communication Commission’s Working Group on Information Needs of Communities to make it “easier for non-profit media to develop sustainable models” to fill gaps in local accountability journalism. They focused on the role of philanthropy in helping to develop that sustainability as a continuous public good – in the way philanthropy has traditionally supported local museums, hospitals, the performing arts, schools and other institutions of great value to communities.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Conference White Paper\" href=\"http://cronkite.asu.edu/assets/video/2012/philanthropy/Local-Accountability-Journalism-white-paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Conference White Paper</a></blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>If the for-profit media could no longer produce the kind of serious journalism that raises the level of civic engagement in our communities – a fundamental element of our democracy – then we have to create a new model to do it.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a title=\"Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith\" href=\"http://cronkite.asu.edu/assets/video/2012/philanthropy/Local-Accountability-Journalism-white-paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith</a></blockquote>', 'The Role of Philanthropy in Local Accountability Journalism', 'Responding to the need for local accountability journalism, leaders of investigative startups share insights about reporting, funding and the future. Watch full sessions or review highlights.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'the-role-of-philanthropy-in-local-accountability-journalism', '', '', '2012-11-09 10:32:04', '2012-11-09 18:32:04', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15065', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15182, 3, '2012-11-12 16:23:28', '2012-11-13 00:23:28', 'Has perception of paywalls changed enough to bring revenue for local news? A guide to picking your business model, huge Sandy kudos to community publishers, writer apps and revenue of the future.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>RT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/michellerafter\">michellerafter</a>: 65+ apps for writers - @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/scrivener\">scrivener</a>, @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/evernote\">evernote</a>, @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/storify\">storify</a>, and a whole lot more: <a href=\"http://t.co/5uSeWKBs\" title=\"http://wp.me/pEnRH-2PX\">wp.me/pEnRH-2PX</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23freelance\">#freelance</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journo\">#journo</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/265832298971267072\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-06T15:05:33+00:00\">November 6, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Nonprofit, for-profit, all the shades in between: How to choose what kind ofnews organization to start <a href=\"http://t.co/u8Lnmzkb\" title=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/nonprofit-for-profit-and-all-the-shades-in-between-how-to-choose-what-kind-of-civic-minded-news-organization-to-start/\">niemanlab.org/2012/11/nonpro…</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23jpreneur\">#jpreneur</a></p>&mdash; Carrie Brown-Smith (@Brizzyc) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Brizzyc/status/265163668956794882\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-04T18:48:39+00:00\">November 4, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23advertising\">#advertising</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/adage\">adage</a> NBC Universal and American Express Try to Bring Dawn of \'Television Commerce\' <a href=\"http://t.co/XSb9ShsT\" title=\"http://ow.ly/2t4MWy\">ow.ly/2t4MWy</a></p>&mdash; Jawad Aarji (@metacommunicate) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/metacommunicate/status/266063475552419841\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-07T06:24:10+00:00\">November 7, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>On Street Fight: As Paywalls Evolve, So Does the Perception of Paywalls<a href=\"http://t.co/5DProJWP\" title=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/11/02/as-paywalls-evolve-so-does-the-perception-of-paywalls/\">streetfightmag.com/2012/11/02/as-…</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/msokoloff\">msokoloff</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/chicagotribune\">chicagotribune</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23hyperlocal\">#hyperlocal</a></p>&mdash; Street Fight (@streetfightmag) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/streetfightmag/status/264342511764520960\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-02T12:25:40+00:00\">November 2, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>In wake of <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Sandy\">#Sandy</a>, ethnic media comes together as lifeline for others in <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23recovery\">#recovery</a> efforts @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/newamericamedia\">newamericamedia</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/N3wlSoXt\" title=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2012/10/in-hurricanes-wake-ethnic-media-are-a-lifeline-to-immigrants.php\">newamericamedia.org/2012/10/in-hur…</a></p>&mdash; Journalism Center (@JCCFnews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JCCFnews/status/264407386217906177\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-02T16:43:27+00:00\">November 2, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: November 3 - November 9, 2012', 'Has perception of paywalls changed enough to bring revenue for local news? A guide to picking your business model, huge Sandy kudos to community publishers, writer apps and revenue of the future.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-november-3-november-9-2012', '', '', '2012-11-12 16:23:28', '2012-11-13 00:23:28', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15182', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15219, 3, '2012-11-13 13:24:00', '2012-11-13 21:24:00', '<div class=\"underwrite\"><img src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/disqus-logo-dark1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" /> <p><a href=\"http://www.disqus.com/\">Disqus</a> is a third-party commenting platform, created in 2007 because the founders felt comment systems hadn’t evolved from the Internet’s early years. Disqus says it helps a range of customers “[f]rom small blogs to massive websites ... build active communities.”</p></div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>Having the option to comment on anything posted online seems ubiquitous and universal. But, as publishers covering local beats know well, there are many choices happening behind the scenes that affect how people experience online conversation, contribute to it and come to develop relationships as part of an online community on a given site. </strong></em></p>\n<em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Your choices could begin with something as simple as selecting options in a Word Press theme. As you grow and refine goals for the comment section of your site, you may begin to look at software that allows for more nuance and networking.</em></p>\n<em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em> <em> </em>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><strong>To discuss the pros and cons of commenting tools and learn more about how online conversation is evolving, we invited <a title=\"Disqus\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/\">Disqus</a></strong> <strong>VP of Business Development <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/ro_gupta/\">Ro Gupta</a></strong> <strong>to share his insight and expertise</strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/#comment\">.</a> Disqus is the largest commenting system on the web, reaching over 700 million people per month, <a href=\"http://disqus.com/for-websites/\" target=\"_blank\">according to</a> the company. This conversation is part of our <a title=\"JA Resource Q&amp;A: Sunlight’s Scout is “useful in an obvious way.”\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ja-resource-chat-sunlights-scout-is-a-tool-useful-in-an-obvious-way/\">series</a> showcasing <a title=\"Resource Index\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\">JA-curated resources</a> designed to offer practical tips and useful insights to increase your yield and deepen your success. <!--more--></em></p>\nWe tackled a lot of questions in the <a title=\"Disqus\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/#comment\">live Q&amp;A</a> with Disqus’ Ro Gupta. For example: What are the risks and benefits of upgrading your website’s comment system? As online conversation becomes more important, how can you leverage it to drive revenue? What can you do to improve the conversation experience, engage your audience and promote civility?\n<h3>Building community</h3>\n<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/drewcm/\">Andrew Marshall</a> joined the discussion to ask Gupta about the role of a comment system in building community. <strong>“In order to maximize the value of a comment system like Disqus,” <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/#comment-2590\">he asked</a></strong>, “<strong>is it necessary to have a community to start?” </strong>\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>“Be very present”</h3>\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0007/0087/70087v2-max-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"135\" /> Even though Disqus VP <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/ro_gupta/\" target=\"_blank\">Ro Gupta</a> is in the business of building and selling a comment platform, he says technology can only do half the job. “Even though we are a software company,” he says, “I still believe that software is only 50% at maximum of the equation.” The rest comes from the human curation, including clear rules and expectations, and managers willing to “be very present” in their own and other online communities. Gupta brings a range of experience from Disney, ABC News, TechnoServe and other companies to Disqus. He’s a New York resident but a diehard Philly fan.\n\n</div>\n<strong>Gupta touted Disqus as useful in building audience because visitors to sites using the platform can easily find content on other sites also using Disqus. But, he cautioned, upgrading your commenting system alone is not enough to increase site traffic or boost other key performance indicators.</strong> “Software is only 50% at maximum of the equation,” <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/#comment-2591\">he wrote</a> in the Q&amp;A. “The rest is up to the site managers to have great content, commit to building a great community by being present both in their own comment discussion and others around the web.”\n\n<strong>Takeaway:</strong> Build specific goals for content and commitment into any plan to upgrade your conversation platform and measure success.\n<h3><strong>How are comments and revenue related?</strong></h3>\nOur primary goal for this conversation was to explore different ways that upgrading your commenting system can directly or indirectly drive revenue. Citing a <a href=\"http://disqus.com/research/strong-communities-grow-traffic/\" target=\"_blank\">2011 study</a>, Gupta said <strong>high participation in conversation threads correlates to higher time spent and page views per visit</strong>.\n\nHe mentioned two ways higher participation can drive revenue: “For many sites, <strong>more page views means more advertising inventory</strong>. For others, <strong>more commenters means more registered users</strong> <strong>who are often the ones most likely to opt in to a paid service or product/event of some kind that the site may offer</strong>.”\n\nWhile online ads are traditionally served through Google AdSense or other ad networks, Gupta said Disqus has developed an option for an additional advertising method called Promoted Discovery, which uses the content-referral feature of Disqus to share relevant content from advertising partners.\n\n<strong>Takeaway:</strong> Connect the right dots to build revenue expectations into a comment system upgrade. Then track it to help assess the value of the investment.\n<h3><strong>Conversation considerations</strong></h3>\nParticipants <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/timuyasha/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Jacobson</a> and <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/emilyontheave/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Taffel</a> raised questions about  trolls, abusive comments and whether software can read sentiment. Gupta <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/#comment-2581\" target=\"_blank\">offered advice</a> on managing the tone of conversations that can apply on any platform: “[B]e very present in the discussions yourself so that your audience can see that you’re enforcing and living by them.” On software reading sentiment, Disqus has done some experimentation. Stay tuned.\n\n<strong>Takeaway:</strong> Because it’s difficult to moderate the comments on your site manually, a more effective approach may be to <strong>grow a community where other participants in the conversation discourage abusive or offensive behavior</strong>.\n\nWhat kind of comments, conversation and community do you seek to create? What management issues with comment platforms have come up for you? Share what you know or post more questions for Gupta. The <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/disqus/#comment\" target=\"_blank\">conversation</a> remains open to all.', 'JA Resource Q&amp;A: “Building a great community”', 'Are comment threads on your site an asset or liability? Highlights from a Q&A with Disqus VP Ro Gupta on ways to improve the experience of online conversation, build community and tie in revenue.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-qa-building-a-great-community', '', '', '2012-11-13 13:24:00', '2012-11-13 21:24:00', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15219', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15302, 3, '2012-11-15 08:24:22', '2012-11-15 16:24:22', 'New content and paywall platforms offer new options to local publishers. Lessons from Obama’s off-on-the-record flip. Learn to ID fake news photos, and how local is too local? Think again.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/huffpost_launches_a_platform_f.php\" target=\"_blank\">HuffPost launches a platform for user-generated reporting</a>\nThe Huffington Post invites readers to add their own pictures, words and video “to show how issues track across geographical areas.” Potential leads, color and connections for local news.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/obama-campaign-and-des-moines-register-a-form-of-quote-approval/2012/10/24/82af092e-1de5-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama campaign and Des Moines Register: A form of quote approval</a>\nThe Obama campaign makes off-the-record talk with newspaper public when called out. Insight into how you can push politicians – and potential limits of off-the-record talks.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/where-can-i-find-great-content-to-tweet_b17934\" target=\"_blank\">Where Can I Find Great Content To Tweet?</a>\nThe top tip for Twitter newbies: Pick a topic and stick to it. Just step one to building your brand, voice and community in the twitterverse.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/why-small-news-should-be-big-news-for-local-newspapers-mock-it-at-your-peril/\" target=\"_blank\">Why small news should be big news for local newspapers – mock it at your peril</a>\n“The difference between what a trained journalist sees as news and what the local newspaper reader sees as news has the potential to render us irrelevant to our audience.”\n\n<a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/193470/how-journalists-can-avoid-getting-fooled-by-fake-hurricane-sandy-photos/\" target=\"_blank\">How journalists can avoid getting fooled by fake Hurricane Sandy photos</a>\nFake photos from FrankenSandy hold the potential to blow truth apart. Poynter offers tools and techniques for sorting true from false that go beyond this storm season.\n\n<a href=\"http://paidcontent.org/2012/10/30/paywall-startup-tinypass-adds-metered-subscriptions-for-small-publishers/\" target=\"_blank\">Paywall startup Tinypass adds metered subscriptions for small publishers</a>\nAs paywalls gain traction with major media sites, startup company Tinypass brings small publishers into the game with a menu of metered content options to consider.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: November 3 - November 15, 2012', 'New content and paywall platforms offer new options to local publishers. Lessons from Obama’s off-on-the-record flip. Learn to ID fake news photos, and how local is too local? Think again.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-november-3-november-15-2012', '', '', '2012-11-15 08:24:22', '2012-11-15 16:24:22', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15302', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15312, 3, '2012-11-19 15:44:15', '2012-11-19 23:44:15', 'Publisher boon? The \"next big\" social network wants to connect people around content. Is your ad strategy native? Shifting small biz thinking about online. Tips & programs to launch your j-career.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>.@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/sulia\">sulia</a> \"connects you to the top social sources on subjects you care about.\"Is it the next big social network? <a href=\"http://t.co/z8UImXWJ\" title=\"http://read.bi/Z7hKIq\">read.bi/Z7hKIq</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/267357346953572355\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-10T20:05:33+00:00\">November 10, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>12 Tips for LaunchingYour <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Journalism\">#Journalism</a> Career: <a href=\"http://t.co/43MQODzC\" title=\"http://bit.ly/Ujzprr\">bit.ly/Ujzprr</a></p>&mdash; Univ of MN SJMC (@UMN_SJMC) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/UMN_SJMC/status/267999003092848640\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-12T14:35:16+00:00\">November 12, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What’s More Important: Native Ads or Programmatic Buying? | Digiday - <a href=\"http://t.co/cCY2Pgr5\" title=\"http://crowdspring.co/QkxrLV\">crowdspring.co/QkxrLV</a></p>&mdash; Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/rosskimbarovsky/status/265826912075653120\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-06T14:44:09+00:00\">November 6, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A collection of new SMB research via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/lauriesullivan\">lauriesullivan</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mediapost\">mediapost</a> How SMBs View Online Media <a href=\"http://t.co/BKpfs0ir\" title=\"http://ht.ly/f1K7K\">ht.ly/f1K7K</a></p>&mdash; Neustar Localeze (@Localeze) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Localeze/status/265460770907750400\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-05T14:29:14+00:00\">November 5, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Nontraditional way of supporting local independent online journalism w/ financial &amp; human capital. This happened: <a href=\"http://t.co/KK0r8A24\" title=\"http://ow.ly/fhkpo\">ow.ly/fhkpo</a>...</p>&mdash; Patterson Foundation (@ThePattersonFdn) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ThePattersonFdn/status/268712460222078976\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-14T13:50:17+00:00\">November 14, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: November 10 - November 16, 2012', 'Publisher boon? The \"next big\" social network wants to connect people around content. Is your ad strategy native? Shifting small biz thinking about online. Tips & programs to launch your j-career.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-november-10-november-16-2012', '', '', '2012-11-19 15:44:15', '2012-11-19 23:44:15', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15312', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(11288, 3, '2012-12-14 15:02:55', '2012-12-14 23:02:55', 'The Twitter conversion of a local news anchor, when editors beat algorithms, dissecting the value of content subscriptions, and what journos really should know about the business they\'re in.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/silver-fish-handcatch-detroit-anchor-uses-twitter-to-engage-tv-audience_b71090\" target=\"_blank\">‘Silver Fish Handcatch!’: Detroit Anchor Uses Twitter To Engage TV Audience</a>\n\nMany news outlets use social media like Facebook or Twitter to connect with their audience. But a Detroit TV anchor \"may have found a way to translate those clicks and tweets into viewership.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://gigaom.com/2012/11/29/techmeme-founder-give-me-human-editors-and-the-new-york-times/\" target=\"_blank\">Techmeme founder: Give me human editors and the New York Times</a>\n\nFor any journalist worried about being replaced by cyborgs: Tech guru Gabe Rivera pushes algorithms to shape news coverage but says audiences respond to a human editor\'s touch.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/symbolia.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hello to Symbolia: New iPad-only comics journalism magazine launches today</a>\n\nLooking for new ways to draw an audience? Symbolia went iPad-only to cover serious news by serious graphic artists. Can you fit this in your media landscape?\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2012-12-05/the-science-of-subscription\" target=\"_blank\">The science of content subscriptions: Understanding lifetime customer value and price power</a>\n\nWill online subscriptions save you? Think long term: each new subscriber doesn\'t create profit overnight. This breaks down the recoup costs.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/career-development/196857/why-journalists-should-explore-the-business-side-of-the-newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">Why journalists should explore the business side of news</a>\n\nJournalists have contributed much to the technological advancements of the field over the past decade, but why aren\'t journos on the cutting edge of business advancements, too?\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/12/6768391/tabloid-photographers-defend-colleague-who-snapped-post-subway-horror-\" target=\"_blank\">Tabloid photographers defend colleague who snapped \'Post\' subway horror shot</a>\n\nAdd to your thinking or newsroom discussion about the infamous NY Post photo of a man about to be hit by a train these views of veteran photogs defending the shot and publication.', 'Journalism Accelerator Current Featured Links', 'The Twitter conversion of a local news anchor, when editors beat algorithms, dissecting the value of content subscriptions, and what journos really should know about the business they\'re in.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'featured-links', '', '', '2012-12-14 15:02:55', '2012-12-14 23:02:55', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=11288', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(15331, 3, '2012-11-21 12:58:57', '2012-11-21 20:58:57', '<blockquote>Trust is perhaps the most important asset public broadcasting carries forward into its evolving public media future. Audiences rely on our information and perspectives as they make decisions in their public and personal lives. The public tells pollsters that public television and radio news is their most trusted source among many mass media choices.\n\nWe have built that trust by rigorous attention to editorial integrity — how we govern our organizations, raise funds for our programming, and produce our daily work. Nationally and locally, public broadcasters have crafted enduring principles, policies and practices to protect and advance our trust and integrity. These crucial guideposts are now tested by powerful and exciting changes in our field.\n<ul>\n	<li>The unfolding technologies of the digital era are transforming how content is created and distributed and reshaping the ways in which public broadcasters engage their communities — and vice versa.</li>\n	<li>Stations increasingly complement traditional television and radio broadcasting with a portfolio strategy of online, wireless and mobile services. This leads to wider availability of public media, but often places content in a context not directly controlled by those who created it.</li>\n	<li>Stations are re-framing their community roles through new forms of partnership, collaboration, and civic engagement and participation. These partnerships create new opportunities for multiple voices, contributions, and ideas from new sources, but present challenges with respect to shared editorial standards and the public\'s expectations for balance and independence.</li>\n	<li>Further, public broadcasters are encountering evolving expectations from donors, corporate sponsors, philanthropy and other stakeholders — and higher expectations and standards for transparency and accountability.</li>\n	<li>Stations and their staffs need a more refined set of guidelines that will inform their decision-making and ensure a continuity of values, trust, and organizational clarity in this new environment. It is time for a vigorous review of our editorial standards to assure ourselves and our audiences that our new services will carry forward the trust and integrity that we have accrued over time.”</li>\n</ul><strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://pmintegrity.org/about.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Public Media Integrity</a></blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>In this political environment there’s a lot being thrown around about integrity, bias, and ‘just who are these public broadcasting guys, anyway?’” said Tom Thomas of the Station Resource Group, co-director of the editorial initiative. “We should be able to say, here’s how we do our work, here’s the way in which we make decisions, here’s what money we take or not, here’s how we balance funding and content.\" …\n\nByron Knight, emeritus director of Wisconsin Public Broadcasting, is the project’s co-director. Knight said use of ethics policies at the station level varies widely across the system. … The steering committee “is not trying to write the Ten Commandments of how to do these things,” Knight said. “These will be suggestions to stations for things to think about as they create their own mission statements, position themselves in their communities, define themselves, create productions and look for funding. We’re not saying, ‘You must do this.’ We’re saying, ‘This could help you stay out of situations you may not want to be in.’” <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://www.current.org/wp-content/themes/current/archive-site/ethics/ethics1107editorialintegrity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Current.org</a></blockquote>', 'Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Principles, Policies, &amp; Practices', 'A collaborative project to share standards across management, culture, reporting and fundraising in public media. Step one of The Code of Editorial Integrity: Commit yourself to quality work.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'editorial-integrity-for-public-media-principles-policies-practices', '', '', '2012-11-21 12:58:57', '2012-11-21 20:58:57', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15331', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15343, 3, '2012-11-21 12:58:09', '2012-11-21 20:58:09', '<blockquote>As a senior vice president of one of the largest independent PR firms in the world, TJ develops the social media strategies for major clients like eBay, HP and Charles Schwab. During our workshop he showed journalists, filmmakers, educators and public affairs experts how to use those same strategies to effectively reach their communities. Here are a few highlights:\n<ul>\n	<li>Revisit your photo and video strategy: 60% of search results contain video and 30% of search results contain images.</li>\n	<li>Content is King: 42% of Twitter messages and 23% of all social media messages include links to content. However, quality content is key to building trust and reputation with your audience.</li>\n	<li>Audiences are skeptical: Most people need to see information 3-5 times from multiple sources to believe it.</li>\n</ul>\nWatch the video...to hear all of TJ\'s best tips for building an effective social media strategy.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/blog/2012/oct/28/tj-kelly-impact-storytelling/\" target=\"_blank\">Knight Digital Media Center</a></blockquote>', 'TJ Kelly: Social Media and The Impact of Storytelling', 'Tips from social media guru TJ Kelly for building an effective social/story strategy from a business POV. Useful for journalists, educators, publishers with stories to tell.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tj-kelly-social-media-and-the-impact-of-storytelling', '', '', '2012-11-21 12:58:09', '2012-11-21 20:58:09', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15343', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15348, 3, '2012-11-21 12:57:46', '2012-11-21 20:57:46', '<blockquote>After Deadline examines questions of grammar, usage and style encountered by writers and editors of The Times. It is adapted from a weekly newsroom critique overseen by Philip B. Corbett, the associate managing editor for standards, who is also in charge of The Times’s style manual.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/\" target=\"_blank\">After Deadline Blog</a></blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>As careful as we try to be with words, sometimes our eyes glaze over and our brains freeze when we encounter numbers. Just pausing for an extra moment over a number — does this figure make sense? — might be enough to save us from some unfortunate corrections.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/trouble-with-numbers/\" target=\"_blank\">Philip B. Corbett</a></blockquote>', 'After Deadline: Newsroom Notes on Usage and Style', 'Who or whom? Tips and reminders for writers of all levels on numbers, subjunctive voice and other tricky bits from the keeper of the NY Times style standards.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'after-deadline-newsroom-notes-on-usage-and-style', '', '', '2012-11-21 12:57:46', '2012-11-21 20:57:46', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15348', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15355, 3, '2012-11-21 12:57:57', '2012-11-21 20:57:57', '<blockquote>Successful grant-writing involves solid advance planning and preparation. It takes time to coordinate your planning and research, organize, write and package your proposal, submit your proposal to the funder, and follow-up.\n\nOrganize your proposal, pay attention to detail and specifications, use concise, persuasive writing, and request reasonable funding. Clearly understand the grantmaker\'s guidelines before you write your proposal. Make sure the grantmaker\'s goals and objectives match your grantseeking purposes.” <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://www.npguides.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">non-profit guides</a></blockquote>', 'non-profit guides: grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations', 'Grant-writing tools for nonprofits, with links to grantmakers and more resources. Comprehensive breakdown of proposals to support your ask, plus samples for comparison and inspiration.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'non-profit-guides-grant-writing-tools-for-non-profit-organizations', '', '', '2012-11-21 12:57:57', '2012-11-21 20:57:57', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15355', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15398, 3, '2012-11-26 11:18:32', '2012-11-26 19:18:32', 'Using sci-fi to improve science information, a new tool to find real news about people you follow, AP practices to borrow for verifying user content, and help both covering and creating business.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>New tool for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalists\">#journalists</a>: @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/newsle\">newsle</a> helps track important people in your networks <a href=\"http://t.co/7gaVU3E3\" title=\"http://newsle.com/\">newsle.com</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23jtools\">#jtools</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/270588096184201217\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-19T18:03:24+00:00\">November 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Not sure where to get started in covering business?We\'ve got Biz Beat Basics:<a href=\"http://t.co/NRkiqjt9\" title=\"http://bit.ly/bizbeatbasics\">bit.ly/bizbeatbasics</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23BizJ\">#BizJ</a></p>&mdash; Reynolds Center (@BizJournalism) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/BizJournalism/status/270920757658386432\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-20T16:05:16+00:00\">November 20, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The Tomorrow Project explores our possible futures through fact-based, science-based fiction &amp; video conversations <a href=\"http://t.co/Fz27eIos\" title=\"http://intel.ly/SKsrw7\">intel.ly/SKsrw7</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/270210137833226241\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-18T17:01:31+00:00\">November 18, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Editor Fergus Bell explains the @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/ap\">ap</a>\'s process of verifying user-generated content. <a href=\"http://t.co/n6nWej8K\" title=\"http://bit.ly/T02NDZ\">bit.ly/T02NDZ</a>@<a href=\"https://twitter.com/fergb\">fergb</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsilverman\">craigsilverman</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/poynter\">poynter</a></p>&mdash; The News Lit Project (@TheNewsLP) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TheNewsLP/status/269549473015922688\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-16T21:16:17+00:00\">November 16, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\'Chasing Sustainability on the Net\'<a href=\"http://t.co/RSSioUjk\" title=\"http://www.submojour.net/archives/989/table-of-contents/\">submojour.net/archives/989/t…</a>&lt; <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> startups <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23periodisme\">#periodisme</a></p>&mdash; Daniel Corominas (@danicorominas) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/danicorominas/status/268314418046197760\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-13T11:28:36+00:00\">November 13, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: November 17 - November 23, 2012', 'Using sci-fi to improve science information, a new tool to find real news about people you follow, AP practices to borrow for verifying user content, and help both covering and creating business.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-november-17-november-23-2012', '', '', '2012-11-26 11:18:32', '2012-11-26 19:18:32', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15398', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15408, 17, '2012-11-29 16:12:27', '2012-11-30 00:12:27', '[caption id=\"attachment_15457\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"244\" caption=\"A section of the tag cloud from JA&#39;s resource index, offering a quick way to source information you need. \"]<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\"><img class=\"fancybox size-medium wp-image-15457 \" title=\"Journalism Accelerator Tag Cloud\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/wordcloud-resources.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator Tag Cloud\" width=\"244\" height=\"194\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Today’s news market finds many publishers overwhelmed by information, tools and apps, with few ways to learn which may hold the most value, be simple to use or bring your business the greatest return.  To help news providers search more efficiently across information networks, the JA curates <a title=\"Resources\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/topics/resources/\" target=\"_blank\">resources</a> with practical value or proven success. </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Organized in an easy-access <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\" target=\"_blank\">index</a>, this resource collection is designed to help journalists, publishers and others who are looking to find new, sustainable ways to do business. Since launching 15 months ago, the collection has grown to more than 300 listings pulled from scores of sources. Here we offer a quick tour of what you can expect to find in a JA resource listing, explaining how we select and present resources so you can get the most out of them.</em><!--more--></p>\n<strong>There is one unifying theme across all 300+ resources curated on the JA: each is selected because it offers some practical application for people working to build sustainable news businesses.</strong> The wide-ranging <a title=\"Resources\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/topics/resources/\">JA collection</a> includes practical reporting tools, ideas for building community, advertising tips, databases, business models, industry background papers, training opportunities, experiments to watch, organizations to know and so on.\n\nThe <a title=\"Resource Index\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/\">resource index</a> is organized to help you find what you need faster. An ongoing <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ja-resource-chat-sunlights-scout-is-a-tool-useful-in-an-obvious-way/\">series of online Q&amp; A sessions</a> can connect you with the creators and other people using the resource.\n<h3>What you get in a JA resource listing</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>At the top, a short explainer that articulates the value of the resource: <strong>homing in on the specific, practical benefit that can help you work smarter or deepen your business intelligence.</strong></li>\n	<li>Excerpts from people who created, reviewed or have used the resource describe its <strong>key elements and fundamental purpose</strong>.</li>\n	<li>Relevant links that take you directly to the resource, <strong>including secondary pages or features so you don’t have to waste time digging them out</strong>.</li>\n	<li><strong>An “always on” comment thread to gather direct experiences of people using the resource.</strong> Here you can ask questions, offer tips on using the resource or present ideas for improvement. We’ll invite the people behind the resource to connect back to you.</li>\n</ul>\n<a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/JA-anatomy-of-a-resource1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15465\" title=\"Anatomy of a Resource\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/JA-anatomy-of-a-resource1.png\" alt=\"Anatomy of a Resource\" width=\"800\" height=\"373\" /></a>\n<h3><strong>Why the JA lists resources across such a wide spectrum of topics</strong></h3>\nThe JA is a center for sharing information and know-how about what’s working now to build sustainable business models for journalism.  Plenty goes into that: bringing in revenue, investing it wisely, creating top-notch content efficiently, building connections with your community, staying current across innovation and research, understanding impacts of policy, figuring out the right ad platform, and getting a fix on new benchmarks and what new best practices suggest. <strong>We regularly talk with and listen to news producers, search widely to find unexpected sources of knowledge and analyze information carefully to identify nuggets of practical application in every resource we list. </strong>We work across eight categories: revenue, community, craft, distribution, education, experiments, policy and technology. In addition, we use an overlay of internal filters to ensure we cover a range of resource types: tools &amp; tactics, tips &amp; techniques, innovation &amp; experiments, reports &amp; articles, people &amp; collaboration.\n\nThis approach lets us offer you quick solutions when you\'re in need them, different paths to find resources when you\'re searching for something specific and robust learning opportunities when that’s what you’re after. Check out <a href=\"#callout\">this example</a> of a compilation of resources, all focused on understanding different business models. Maybe you’ll spot something to inspire or bring new ideas to your news operation!\n<h3><strong>How to get even more insight and return</strong></h3>\n<strong> </strong>You can contribute to this growing collection by <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/about/suggest-a-resource/\">suggesting resources</a> you value. Tell us how what you suggest has been important in your work. Your contribution may inspire a <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/ja-resource-chat-sunlights-scout-is-a-tool-useful-in-an-obvious-way/\">live online Q&amp;A session</a> with the resource creator and others who use it. Check out past Q&amp; A sessions on the JA <a title=\"Blog Index\" href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog-index/\">blog index</a> – you can join any conversation anytime and other contributors on those threads will be notified. Follow <a title=\"@journaccel\" href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel\" target=\"_blank\">the JA on Twitter</a> or subscribe to periodic Journalism Accelerator updates to learn when live discussions are happening.\n<h3>The bottom line</h3>\n<strong>Timely, useful, contextualized news and accurate reporting, gathered and shared to serve the public interest, are central to the information needs of communities in a democracy.</strong> The living knowledge base reflected in the JA resource collection is here to help you succeed – to find paths to sustainability by doing more of what works and less of what doesn\'t. <strong>What kinds of resources might help up your yield?</strong> We welcome your ideas or frustrations, working to source information to help your news organization thrive.\n<div id=\"callout\" class=\"underwrite_span\" style=\"height: 360px; padding: 10px; padding-left: 20px;\">\n<h3>Four JA resources to find the right business model</h3>\nA quick sweep of JA resource listings turns up nearly a dozen designed to help you build your news business to last. Here’s a popular sampling:\n<div>\n<ul style=\"width: 40%; float: left;\">\n	<li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/becoming-an-entrepreneurial-journalist-from-idea-to-implementation/\">Becoming an Entrepreneurial Journalist: From Idea to Implementation\n</a></strong>Looking to start your own news biz? Mark Briggs teams up with Poynter in an online course: Entrepreneurial journalism - from idea to implementation. A low-cost investment in practical learning.</li>\n	<li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-nonprofit-journalism-hub/\">The Nonprofit Journalism Hub\n</a></strong>Eager to start your own news nonprofit? The Investigative News Network’s online hub supports “local investigative and public service journalism.”</li>\n</ul>\n<ul style=\"width: 40%; float: left;\">\n	<li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/submojour-sustainable-business-models-for-journalism/\">SuBMoJour – Sustainable Business Models for Journalism\n</a></strong>A searchable database to help journalism startups see into others’ success. Want to review “financially sustainable business model[s]...? Browse case studies...find one that suits your site.”</li>\n	<li style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/ten-nonprofit-funding-models/\">Ten Nonprofit Funding Models\n</a></strong>Beneficiaries are not customers: A sharp and specific guide to nonprofit business models offering insight to more effectively run or build one.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n</div>', 'JA resource collection designed to fuel your business success', 'JA resources are curated to fuel your success. How to get the most out of the extensive, cross-network collection so you can do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-collection-designed-to-fuel-your-business-success', '', '', '2012-11-29 16:12:27', '2012-11-30 00:12:27', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15408', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15500, 3, '2012-11-29 12:36:42', '2012-11-29 20:36:42', 'Drones and Twitter lay down new challenges to journalism. Creative, ethical ways to break down the traditional business/newsroom wall. And who is a hyperlocal? How fast are the numbers growing?\n\n<a title=\"5 iPad Apps Journalists Should Try For Interviews\" href=\"http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/5-ipad-apps-journalists-interviews_b16039\" target=\"_blank\">5 iPad Apps Journalists Should Try For Interviews\n</a>Bundling many reporting tasks into one tool: check out these paid and free app options for dictation, recording and taking notes on an iPad.\n\n<a title=\"The Local News: Now Brought To You By Drones?\" href=\"http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-11/u-nebraskas-drone-journalism-lab-produces-its-first-drone-assisted-story\" target=\"_blank\">The Local News: Now Brought To You By Drones?\n</a>Journalism students push into unchartered territory – using remote controlled aerial systems to gather pictures for a story. Would you do this?\n\n<a title=\"How News Orgs Break Down the Editorial-Business Wall, Ethically\" href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/11/how-news-orgs-break-down-the-editorial-business-wall-ethically313.html\" target=\"_blank\">How News Orgs Break Down the Editorial-Business Wall, Ethically\n</a>“Creative, appropriate -- and most importantly -- ethical ways to blend the business and editorial sides.”\n\n<a title=\"Wilbon on sports writing today: Not as much good stuff as there used to be\" href=\"http://www.shermanreport.com/wilbon-sports-writing-today-not-much-good-stuff-used/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilbon on sports writing today: Not as much good stuff as there used to be\n</a>Former WP sports writer says social media and multimedia are lowering the quality of sports writing. How do you meet demands of speed and excellence on any beat?\n\n<a title=\"Sizing the Industry: Who Gets Counted as ‘Hyperlocal?’\" href=\"http://streetfightmag.com/2012/11/14/in-market-sizing-who-gets-counted-as-hyperlocal/\" target=\"_blank\">Sizing the Industry: Who Gets Counted as ‘Hyperlocal?’\n</a>Streetfight takes a stab at defining “hyperlocal” and points to lists tracking the industry. Check out the comments for more.\n\n<a title=\"Twitter: the future of journalism, or only the bad kind?\" href=\"http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/11/10/twitter-the-future-of-journalism-or-the-future-of-bad-journalism/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter: the future of journalism, or only the bad kind?\n</a>Sharks swimming in the New York subway system? Why Twitter is an unreliable wire service and how you can use it to add value.', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: November 16 - November 29, 2012 ', 'Drones and Twitter lay down new challenges to journalism. Creative, ethical ways to break down the traditional business/newsroom wall. And who is a hyperlocal? How fast are the numbers growing?', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-november-16-november-29-2012', '', '', '2012-11-29 12:36:42', '2012-11-29 20:36:42', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15500', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15597, 3, '2012-12-03 11:41:18', '2012-12-03 19:41:18', 'Loads to learn at this time of transition. The next in fact-checking, new ways of long-form, connecting in real life, post-industrial journalism and the future brand/journalism relationship.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Highlight: The Struggle to Connect Strangers<a href=\"http://t.co/Xa4X3J5g\" title=\"http://mashable.com/2012/11/27/highlight-bringing-people-together/\">mashable.com/2012/11/27/hig…</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mashable\">mashable</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23futureoftechnology\">#futureoftechnology</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23connect\">#connect</a></p>&mdash; Nero Solutions (@NeroSolutions) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NeroSolutions/status/273569394167250944\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-27T23:30:00+00:00\">November 27, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Pioneers of long-form digital journalism on \'rewriting the rules\' <a href=\"http://t.co/bZ75YPsv\" title=\"http://www.journalism.co.uk/a551213\">journalism.co.uk/a551213</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/journalismnews\">journalismnews</a></p>&mdash; Rachel Andrews (@rachandrews101) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/rachandrews101/status/270468222778753024\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-19T10:07:04+00:00\">November 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The future of <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23factchecking\">#factchecking</a> after <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Election2012\">#Election2012</a>: @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/brendannyhan\">brendannyhan</a>\'s latest at @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/cjrswingstates\">cjrswingstates</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/UnR65i7C\" title=\"http://bit.ly/SwNHqD\">bit.ly/SwNHqD</a> CC @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/poynter\">poynter</a> @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/onthemedia\">onthemedia</a></p>&mdash; Columbia Jrn Review (@CJR) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CJR/status/274245076249636866\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-29T20:14:56+00:00\">November 29, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>“Post-Industrial Journalism”: A new Columbia report examines the disrupted news universe <a href=\"http://t.co/yAB8FSjS\" title=\"http://bit.ly/VecdBd\">bit.ly/VecdBd</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23dfmchat\">#dfmchat</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23pijournalism\">#pijournalism</a></p>&mdash; Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ivanlajara/status/273847178957561856\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-28T17:53:49+00:00\">November 28, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/newscred\">newscred</a>\'sCEO convinced major brands that they need to pay for journalism: <a href=\"http://t.co/o3gpAOP7\" title=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-brands-are-paying-for-journalism-2012-11#ixzz2DQhS84JJ\">businessinsider.com/giant-brands-a…</a></p>&mdash; Blair Hickman (@amandablair) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/amandablair/status/273419157586980866\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-27T13:33:01+00:00\">November 27, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: November 24 - November 30, 2012', 'Loads to learn at this time of transition. The next in fact-checking, new ways of long-form, connecting in real life, post-industrial journalism and the future brand/journalism relationship. ', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-november-24-november-30-2012', '', '', '2012-12-03 11:41:18', '2012-12-03 19:41:18', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15597', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15603, 17, '2012-12-05 16:57:28', '2012-12-06 00:57:28', '<div class=\"underwrite\">\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13997\" title=\"Econocheck\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/econocheck.png\" alt=\"Econocheck\" width=\"250\" height=\"96\" /><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/investigative-reporters-and-editors/\">Investigative Reporters and Editors</a> teamed up with the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-sunlight-foundation/\">Sunlight Foundation</a> to create a guide to key national economic databases as a tool to fact-check political claims. Designed for journalists on deadline, useful and accessible to interested citizens, EconoCheck hopes to expand this service built initially for the 2012 election.\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/\">EconoCheck</a> is a collection of economic data covering major issues frequently in the news. It’s designed to give reporters a quick way to understand the context of the data and a direct link to the datasets themselves.</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>EconoCheck was built with a simple premise: It can be challenging to verify economic claims. So the <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/the-sunlight-foundation/\">Sunlight Foundation</a> teamed up with <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/investigative-reporters-and-editors/\">Investigative Reporters and Editors</a> to offer direct links and helpful context to extract accurate information from key national economic datasets.</em></p>\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\">Data expert and journo prof <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/davidherzog/\">David Herzog</a> collaborated with Sunlight and IRE to launch EconoCheck for the 2012 election.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\">In the latest <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2606\">JA Resource Q&amp;A</a>, we talked with Herzog about how to report data effectively and how this tool can be useful outside the immediate demands of an election cycle.<!--more--></p>\n\n</em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<strong>The context EconoCheck provides makes it particularly useful.</strong> Each introduction to a particular set of numbers explains who collects them and how they\'re gathered. Each also includes a favorite feature borrowed from other Investigative Reporters and Editors resources ­– a brief  “good to know” section pointing out nuances and pitfalls to help achieve even greater accuracy.\n\nA variety of needs and desires for this kind of tool emerged in the Q&amp;A.\n<h3><strong>Direct documentation</strong></h3>\nIn the Q&amp;A, talk show host <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/politution/\">Politution</a> said his audience <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2630\">highly values</a> documentation. <strong>“(It’s) all about the documentation. We want to see the documents that support fact checks.”</strong>\n\nIRE Executive Director <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/markhorvit/\">Mark Horvit</a> said <strong>connecting to original sources is a <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2616\">key way to build</a> credibility.</strong>\n\n“EconoCheck steers journalists to reliable sources for stats and numbers, and then as long as journalists attribute the numbers they use to those sources, the public can decide how credible it thinks they are.”\n<h3><strong>\"Squishy\" numbers</strong></h3>\n<strong>The conversation covered why it’s critical to understand how economic data are created.</strong> David Herzog, a long time data journalist who helped create EconoCheck, <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2614\">called numbers “squishy”</a> – despite the premium put on data as a verification tool. He said building EconoCheck <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2633\">reminded him once again</a> that “statistics are numbers created by people and thus are flawed.” For example, stats might be collected by a survey, which means data is both incomplete and unverified. Or an agency might use old data, if it hasn’t collected new. Herzog says these are reasons EconoCheck puts context first, before presenting data.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>“Read the FAQs, read the About”</h3>\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1345836443/herzog-david-lowres_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\n\n<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/davidherzog/\">David Herzog</a> has dug into data for years: as an investigative reporter, as the founder of <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/open-missouri-org/\">OpenMissouri.org</a> and as a journalism professor teaching computer-assisted reporting and data analysis. But helping create EconoCheck reminded him that data is not pure.  “The biggest takeaway for me was getting reminded, over and over, that statistics are numbers created by people and thus are flawed,” <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2633\">he said</a> in our online Q&amp;A.\n\nSo how can you be sure you report the right numbers? Read, Herzog says. “Journalists should read any documentation (including any original survey forms) that accompanies online data. Read the FAQs, read the About the data pages.” He also says you should report! Find the people who created the data to explain the limitations, or experts who read these reports all the time to help you understand what’s missing. “In my experience,” <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2637\">Herzog said</a> , “the people who create the data are happy to help journalists understand it better.”\n\n</div>\n<h3><strong>Limits on local</strong></h3>\n<a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/members/ramiroagosto/\">Ramiro Agosto</a> <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2632\">asked in the Q&amp;A</a> whether data linked to from EconoCheck would help him research local economic information.\n<blockquote>I was hoping to be able to apply it to economic claims made by politicians in my city (Burlington, VT). So I suppose that wouldn’t be plausible. Maybe that is a suggestion for future improvements, if possible? Being able to shorten the scale?”</blockquote>\nHerzog <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2635\">responded</a> that certain data referenced on the EconoCheck does get to city levels, but not all.\n<blockquote>So you might be able to use some, assuming it’s on point with what you’re reporting. You bring up a good point for us: most reporting that’s local demands more fine-grained data than U.S. source[s] offer.”</blockquote>\n<h3><strong>EconoCheck going forward</strong></h3>\nHerzog said expanding data offerings to help local reporters could come in future EconoCheck iterations.  Unlike some IRE resource and databases, <strong>EconoCheck is available for anyone to use for free.</strong> While this resource has mostly been shared through IRE trainings, EconoCheck creators are looking for ways to get a broader community interested in this tool designed to keep politicians, officials and public discourse accurate and accountable.\n\nIf you have suggestions for making EconoCheck even more relevant, or just want to know more about it, you can post to the “always-open” <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/econocheck/#comment-2606\">Q&amp;A thread</a> anytime.', 'JA Resource Q&amp;A: “See the documents that support fact-checks”', 'Quick tips on keeping the record straight with U.S. economic data: how to recognize squishy figures, provide direct documentation and offer much more than numbers alone.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-resource-qa-see-the-documents-that-support-fact-checks', '', '', '2012-12-05 16:57:28', '2012-12-06 00:57:28', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15603', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15669, 3, '2012-12-07 09:28:33', '2012-12-07 17:28:33', '<blockquote>This essay is part survey and part manifesto, one that concerns itself with the practice of journalism and the practices of journalists in the United States. It is not, however, about ‘the future of the news industry,’ both because much of that future is already here and because there is no such thing as the news industry anymore. …\n\nMany of the changes talked about in the last decade as part of the future landscape of journalism have already taken place; much of journalism’s imagined future is now its lived-in present. (As William Gibson noted long ago, ‘The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.’) Our goal is to write about what has already happened and what is happening today, and what we can learn from it, rather than engaging in much speculation.\n\nThe effect of the current changes in the news ecosystem has already been a reduction in the quality of news in the United States. On present evidence, we are convinced that journalism in this country will get worse before it gets better, and, in some places (principally midsize and small cities with no daily paper) it will get markedly worse. Our hope is to limit the scope, depth and duration of that decay by pointing to ways to create useful journalism using tools, techniques and assumptions that weren’t even possible 10 years ago.” <strong>Source: </strong><a title=\"Tow Center for Digital Journalism\" href=\"http://towcenter.org/research/post-industrial-journalism/introduction/\" target=\"_blank\">Tow Center for Digital Journalism</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>Brilliantly researched and written by C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell and Clay Shirky, it was a refreshingly realistic read on where journalism is and where it\'s going. There is a lot in the essay of concern to those who seek to practice journalism as a profession, like me, but there\'s also much to get you excited about the opportunities that the future will hold.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-kanalley/post-industrial-journalism-takeaways_b_2233808.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post</a></blockquote>', 'Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present', 'Analysing journalism’s future through the lens of a needed restructuring. Targeted to help journalists, news organizations and groups outside the traditional news ecosystem move ahead to success.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'post-industrial-journalism-adapting-to-the-present', '', '', '2012-12-07 09:28:33', '2012-12-07 17:28:33', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15669', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15675, 3, '2012-12-07 09:28:10', '2012-12-07 17:28:10', '<blockquote>LearnStreet is an early-stage startup focused on changing the way people of all backgrounds and skill levels learn how to code.\n\nWe are a small, passionate team of product craftsmen, hackers and designers doing what we love—building a service that inspires users to tap into their amazing potential. We believe putting the power of coding in more hands can unleash a wave of creativity that makes the world a better place for all of us.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.learnstreet.com/about/contact\">LearnStreet</a></blockquote>', 'LearnStreet', 'Simple, step-by-step tutorials for news entrepreneurs and others to learn coding skills. A free resource that can help journalists expand their marketability in the evolving media landscape.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'learnstreet', '', '', '2012-12-07 09:28:10', '2012-12-07 17:28:10', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15675', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15683, 3, '2012-12-07 09:28:23', '2012-12-07 17:28:23', '<blockquote>Grantseeking 101\n\nAre  you new to grantseeking, or looking to enhance your program? We offer a  variety of professional development resources providing tips and tricks  on the grantseeking process. Whether you are starting from scratch or  in need of a refresher, we have information to help.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.apts.org/grantcenter/grantwriting-resources/grant-basics/grantseeking-101\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Center</a></blockquote>', 'Grant Center', 'Designed as a “one-stop shop” for public broadcasters seeking grants, the tips, related news and extended resources here provide useful insight for any nonprofit journalism organization.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'grant-center', '', '', '2012-12-07 09:28:23', '2012-12-07 17:28:23', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15683', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15688, 3, '2012-12-07 09:28:00', '2012-12-07 17:28:00', '<blockquote>Ebyline is a Los Angeles-based company that provides software and services for professional journalists and news publishers around the globe. Founded in 2009, Ebyline helps news organizations and reporters exchange trusted, original content anywhere and anytime. We aim to help the news industry maintain their mission of distributing high-quality content while also reaching their financial goals.\n\nWith Ebyline’s software, managing freelancers has never been easier. Ebyline helps publishers find, hire, and manage freelancers in less time. From pitches, story drafts, to payments, Ebyline manages the workflow so publishers don’t have to. And with the Ebyline Content Marketplace, publishers can not only buy content a la carte from other publications and journalists, they can increase revenue by distributing their content through Ebyline’s online exchange.\n\nFor experienced freelance journalists, Ebyline is a dynamic way to showcase experience, pitch ideas to publishers from around the country, and safely distribute work. Many freelancers are familiar with the struggles of quickly getting paid for their articles, but with Ebyline that’s a thing of the past. No more invoices, no more hassle, just fast payments and easy transactions.\" <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"https://www.ebyline.com/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">Ebyline</a></blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>How, though, can media companies afford to pay a premium for branded, promotable talent, talent that may open consumers’ pocketbooks? That’s easy: spend less on other content. So we’ve got the rise of user-generated content, obtainable free or cheap, and all kinds of new syndicate action from <a href=\"http://www.demandmedia.com/\">Demand Media</a> to startup <a href=\"https://www.ebyline.com/\">Ebyline</a> (and maybe <a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/01/newsrights-potential-new-content-packages-niche-audiences-and-revenue/\">NewsRight</a>), all trying to make it cheap and easy to get more medium- and higher-quality content more cheaply.\" <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/01/the-newsonomics-of-signature-content/\" target=\"_blank\">Nieman Journalism Lab</a></blockquote>', 'Ebyline', 'Ebyline connects publishers with affordable content and quality freelancers. Follow its blog for a compact compilation of conversations on newsroom tech, business models and content strategy.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ebyline', '', '', '2012-12-07 09:28:00', '2012-12-07 17:28:00', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15688', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15845, 3, '2012-12-11 16:08:19', '2012-12-12 00:08:19', 'Deep thinking to draw audiences to hard stories. How to secure your WP site, evidence connecting social with action and tips to improve your job chances. Or, make money with a blog!\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Using WordPress for your community news/info site? Free checklist helps keep it secure:<a href=\"http://t.co/oG1X3XXw\" title=\"http://bit.ly/VeokOO\">bit.ly/VeokOO</a></p>&mdash; Knight Dig Media Ctr (@KDMC) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/KDMC/status/273871208532017152\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-28T19:29:19+00:00\">November 28, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Great tips on how to boost your job application from digital <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> professionals <a href=\"http://t.co/z7i4atKn\" title=\"http://ow.ly/fH5bw\">ow.ly/fH5bw</a> via @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/ona\">ona</a></p>&mdash; ScribbleLive (@scribblelive) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/scribblelive/status/274276978985676800\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-29T22:21:42+00:00\">November 29, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23SocialMedia\">#SocialMedia</a> Use Leads to Real-World Actions <a href=\"http://t.co/YjFu59ni\" title=\"http://on.mash.to/QHAX2g\">on.mash.to/QHAX2g</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23activism\">#activism</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23techforgood\">#techforgood</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/276719050984407040\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-06T16:05:37+00:00\">December 6, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Ways to make money blogging: <a href=\"http://t.co/XeqY6PKT\" title=\"http://ow.ly/i/1df9J\">ow.ly/i/1df9J</a> From the SubMoJour report Chasing Sustainability on the Net: <a href=\"http://t.co/W5spKQY7\" title=\"http://bit.ly/UpYXVA\">bit.ly/UpYXVA</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/277066280048152578\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-07T15:05:23+00:00\">December 7, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>How do you get readers to engage with stories that are a “tough sell”? Here\'s what @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/californiawatch\">californiawatch</a> tried: <a href=\"http://t.co/Z5wdGZdJ\" title=\"http://journ.us/Tx39BC\">journ.us/Tx39BC</a></p>&mdash; Poynter (@Poynter) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Poynter/status/274564566774607872\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-30T17:24:28+00:00\">November 30, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: December 1 - December 7, 2012', 'Deep thinking to draw audiences to hard stories. How to secure your WP site, evidence connecting social with action and tips to improve your job chances. Or, make money with a blog!', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-december-1-december-7-2012', '', '', '2012-12-11 16:08:19', '2012-12-12 00:08:19', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15845', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(15848, 17, '2012-12-14 17:25:03', '2012-12-15 01:25:03', '<a href=\"http://unityjournalists.org/news/newu-entrepreneurship/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-15861 alignright\" title=\"New U Logo\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/UnityLogo_High.jpg\" alt=\"New U Logo\" width=\"144\" height=\"172\" /></a>\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em><a href=\"https://twitter.com/UNITYNewU\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Mitchell</a> brings ideas to angels. He is co-director of the <a href=\"http://unityjournalists.org/news/newu-entrepreneurship/\" target=\"_blank\">UNITY New U Entrepreneur Fellowship program</a>. Funded by the <a href=\"http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/freedom-of-expression/advancing-public-service-media\" target=\"_blank\">Ford Foundation</a>, the program aims to help minority journalists get the business training, support and connections they need to launch businesses. The initiative offers $10,000 grants, training and mentorships. </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Last year, New U launched a new partnership with the <a href=\"http://www.nmanetwork.com/\" target=\"_blank\">National Minority Angel Network</a> to provide fellows further mentoring and pitch opportunities. </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>The JA’s Emily Harris talked with Doug about the business landscape minority journalists face, the particulars of this journalism business training program and how to get involved in 2013. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.</em><!--more--></p>\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_15882\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"140\" caption=\"UNITY New U co-director Doug Mitchell\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-15882 \" title=\"Doug Mitchell\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/DougMitchellHeadshot-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Mitchell\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" />[/caption]\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">Journalism Accelerator:</span> Would you describe the program?</strong>\n\n<strong>Doug Mitchell, co-director, Unity New U Entrepreneur Fellowship program: </strong>I call it a version of a Google scrape. We go through the minority journalist associations, <a href=\"http://www.aaja.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian</a>, <a href=\"http://www.nabj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">black</a>, <a href=\"http://nahj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanic</a>, <a href=\"http://www.naja.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Native American</a>, <a href=\"http://www.nlgja.org/\" target=\"_blank\">lesbian and gay</a>, and look for journalists, whether current or former, who have started their own company or have the idea that they want to start their own company. We identify who they are, have them apply through a somewhat rigorous process, select them as fellows, and then we have a startup camp. Last year, for example, we did a two and a half day startup camp in Las Vegas and out of that the participants, all 14 of them, pitched for grants of $10,000. There were three individual grants of $10,000. They had to get judged by investors and people who have successful startup companies, and there was a crowdsourced vote.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What do you look for in the fellows that you accept?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> Well, first of all, we believe that we\'re solving a problem. If you look on the covers of almost all magazines, you rarely see people of color. We\'re looking for people to be CEOs, founders. People who have ideas, who want to start companies, but don\'t know how. We provide educational opportunities, support, community building, relationship building, and creating an ecosystem in which the people that want to do something, and lead the company, are at least around other people who have done such.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Do people have to have a lot of experience or no experience at all? What works?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> The first year, if you had no experience, that was fine. But we learned we can\'t do that. It\'s not money well spent. So we made it harder to get in the program, and found people who had actually started a company, were in the process of trying to grow their company, had relationships with people who were investors, etc., but still didn\'t quite really understand what it is they needed to be saying and who\'s out there they should be pitching to. The second year we raised the bar. Going into 2013, our fourth year, we\'re looking at three startup camps. One at <a href=\"http://www.nabj.org/?Convention2013\" target=\"_blank\">NABJ</a>, one at <a href=\"http://nahj.org/tag/convention-2013/\" target=\"_blank\">NAHA</a> and the other at the <a href=\"http://journalists.org/conference/ona13/\" target=\"_blank\">Online News Association conference</a>, We\'re going to charge $30 pre-registration fee, and we\'re actually going to have participants build something in front of us. Hands on, actually creating something on the spot. Get them judged, get them set, and then we\'ll have people competing for money.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>\"Look out, 2013!\"</h3>\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15886\" title=\"Cynthia Liu\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CynthiaLiuHeadshot.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Liu\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><a href=\"http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/\" target=\"_blank\">K-12 News Network</a> founder and CEO Cynthia Liu still has half of the $10,000 New U 2012 seed grant she won; she’s been bringing in revenue by selling advocacy and social media services to education-focused clients. Liu says developing that business gives her a double payback. “I\'ll be able to take everything I\'ve road-tested and learned about my clients\' use of online organizing and plow it back into the prototype. As a result, I\'ve pulled back a bit from pitching VCs as right now I\'m income self-funded, though the VC route could be a path for me further down the road. Look out, 2013!”\n\n</div>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What are they going to build?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> They can build their company. They could come with an idea. Another part of what we\'re going to rollout in 2013 is a monthly webinar series. We\'ll start with the mentors that we\'ve been working with pretty much since day one, a guy named <a href=\"https://twitter.com/tsar\" target=\"_blank\">Kaizar Campwala</a>, who now works for <a href=\"http://stitcher.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Stitcher Radio</a>. He\'s worked on the business side of a couple of startups. He\'ll talk about how to put a pitch deck together. Another guy runs digital news ventures through the <a href=\"http://www.mdlf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Media Development Loan Fund</a>. His name is <a href=\"https://twitter.com/syedkarim\" target=\"_blank\">Syed Karim</a>. He came up to me at the Online News Conference in San Francisco and said I have money. I\'m looking to invest. I figured if he has money he\'s looking to invest, we should be the conduit to helping him find those people who are looking for money. He’ll do a webinar. And <a href=\"http://www.harrylin.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Lin</a>, who is the executive in residence at <a href=\"http://www.idealab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Idealab</a>, will talk about entrepreneurship and such. By doing this from January into the summer, those who are truly interested in what we\'re doing will be the ones who want to pay the $30, build something in front of us and compete for a seed grant. We need people who are committed to put their own skin in the game. We provide an opportunity for them to get identified. The judges decide who moves to the next round, and then there\'s the competition for the money.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What’s the fellowship part this year?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> This is all sort of preliminary, but if the fellows are selected during the camp or toward the end of the camp, they\'ll also have a mentor.  They\'ll get coaching through the process of competition for the seed grant money. The three fellows that were awarded $10,000 <a href=\"http://unityjournalists.org/news/newu2011winners/#more-2174\" target=\"_blank\">this past year</a> have now moved into a business accelerator called the <a href=\"http://www.nmanetwork.com/\" target=\"_blank\">National Minority Angel Network</a>. It\'s like handing a baton to the next runner in the relay. We found them, groomed them, got them awarded, got them set into a particular position in business development. Now they\'re handed over to the next person who\'s running the race, which is a higher level of business development and coaching. That\'s also part of what we\'re looking at doing this year; once people get identified and they\'re awarded seed grant money, we hand them to the National Minority Angel Network. And they move on to another part of the scale.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>“Test the idea”</h3>\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15894\" title=\"Jason Frazer\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/JasonFrazerHeadshot.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Frazer\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />\n\nJournalist entrepreneur Jason Frazer founded the <a title=\"Wealth Empowerment Network\" href=\"http://www.wealthen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Wealth Empowerment Network</a> to help news organizations connect with and educate audiences about building wealth. He told the JA that New U 2012 helped him ask the right questions. “How scalable and profitable is your business, how many months or years will it take for you to get there and who are your customers? New U provides time to outline, research and test the idea among peers and media executives. This is crucial for any business to succeed.” The seed grant money he’s spent so far went to marketing and promotion, including launching test products.\n\n</div>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Does the startup have to have any relationship to journalism?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> They\'re journalists, but they\'re not necessarily journalism startups. The requirement is that they are either a current or former journalist. Mostly they\'re members of the minority journalist associations. Some of them are pitching content; some of them are pitching technology. Ultimately it always does relate to journalism. Because if you go into an ecosystem that is full of journalists, guess what you\'re going to get? But what we\'re looking for is scalable business. Most investors do not want to spend money on journalism. We all know this. They think it\'s an expensive hobby. And so they\'re not going to put any money into it because they won\'t get any return on their investment; they don\'t think so anyway. I\'ve managed to convince a couple of people to have a process in which we develop people who maybe have an arm that is content and it\'s not for profit, and then they have a section that is maybe online education or it\'s an app. We\'re still trying to figure out how we get people to fund content.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What are the big specific obstacles that people that you see face?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> We are not business people. You know, back in the siloed days, which were not that long ago, we were the journalists, we told the stories. However they paid for it is however those people paid for it. Now we have to think: how much does that really cost? Where do we spend our money? While the cost to entry has come down a lot, it still costs money to do something. So we all have to become better educated in how businesses work. We don\'t have to go all-in. But I think it\'s very important for journalists today going forward to have a real understanding of how you take an idea from conception to development to public. And second, the big problem is the percent of investment money that goes to <a href=\"http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capital-demographics-87-percent-vc-backed-founders-white-asian-teams-raise-largest-funding\" target=\"_blank\">people of color</a>. Why are we not in the mix? Why are we not in the network? Do we need to develop our own networks? Where are the people of color who have access to capital and do they know about the journalists trying to start companies? It’s a large, festering issue that we\'re trying to take a section of it and solve.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> Do you do market assessments?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> That\'s another problem, everybody thinks their idea is the only idea that ever existed. But chances are somebody else is doing that too. Most people in this realm have never done any market assessment. They don\'t know who their competition is. They don\'t know who\'s out there. They don\'t know what other people are doing. We want to demystify the process to entrepreneurship.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>“I found MY tribe”</h3>\n<img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15898\" title=\"Ashley Cisneros\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/AshleyHeadshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Cisneros\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />\n\nAshley Cisneros used her New U 2012 seed grant to do many things: get office space, attend conferences and secure a range of contractors (designers, journalists, videographers) to help build <a href=\"http://www.chatterbuzzmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Chatter Buzz Media</a>, her new digital marketing firm. Coaching through the National Minority Angel Network starts in January. She called the training so far a game-changer. “I kept joking that I found MY tribe ... finally. Without the the New U program, I would have never had access to insider knowledge about what new media ventures need in order to attract necessary capital investments.”\n\n</div>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What\'s the rough calendar for people who are interested?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> Webinars launching next month, January. We\'ll do a series of five, six webinars, as part of the runway to the first startup camp, which I think is the last week of July. Before that, we will use every opportunity to say we\'re going to be doing these projects, if you\'re members of the association, or not, because we\'re going to sprinkle it around everywhere, come to the conference, $30 registration fee, that way we know you\'re serious. And here\'s what we\'re going to offer and we\'ll have some bullet points on coaching, mentoring, pitching, product development, you\'ll do all that and more over a two-day period. And then, toward the end, you\'ll get an opportunity to pitch to judges to be part of a competition for $10,000.\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #23996b;\">JA:</span> What do you expect people to do with $10,000?</strong>\n\n<strong>DM:</strong> Most of them don\'t have $10. So $10,000 means they can probably use it to get a very nicely designed website. When they move to the next round of business development, that\'s not free. So they can use that to defray the costs of their next round. After $10,000 it moves to six- and seven-figure competition. These people are different in some way from the regular journalists who are trying to get a job in a newsroom. These are people who left, who are not going back. And they want to do their own thing. And especially people of color need to be supported in this area.', 'JA Interview: Building a pipeline for minority journalist entrepreneurs', 'A pipeline for journalists with entrepreneurial ambitions, UNITY New U teaches business basics, awards seed grants, then connects startups with an angel network for deeper guidance and mentoring.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ja-interview-building-a-pipeline-for-minority-journalist-entrepreneurs', '', '', '2012-12-14 17:25:03', '2012-12-15 01:25:03', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15848', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(15928, 3, '2012-12-14 12:03:16', '2012-12-14 20:03:16', 'Secrets to local news sharing, how liveblogs draw in daytime news readers, what journos really need to know about cell phone use. Plus paywalls, plagiarism and inspiring moves out of media.\n\n<a title=\"A Journalist’s Quick Primer on Who Uses Cell Phones (and How)\" href=\"http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/cell-phone-owners-usage-statistics-research-2012-journalism_b16282\" target=\"_blank\">A Journalist’s Quick Primer on Who Uses Cell Phones (and How)</a>\n\"A big push in journalism right now? Mobile. An important piece of information for knowing how to make a good journalism strategy for mobile? How people actually use mobile.\"\n\n<a title=\"Guest post: Why liveblogs outperform other online news formats by up to 300%\" href=\"http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/why-liveblogs-outperform-other-online-news-formats-by-up-to-300-per-cent/s2/a551273/\" target=\"_blank\">Guest post: Why liveblogs outperform other online news formats by up to 300%</a>\nDaytime news readers – many of them office workers – favor liveblogs of news events over a later write-up. An emerging audience seeking information or distraction for you to tap into.\n\n<a title=\"What kinds of local stories drive engagement? The results of an NPR Facebook experiment\" href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/what-kinds-of-local-stories-drive-engagement-the-results-of-an-npr-facebook-experiment/\" target=\"_blank\">What kinds of local stories drive engagement? The results of an NPR Facebook experiment</a>\nWhat makes people share specific local news stories? Nine types of tales found to boost sharing – and caring.\n\n<a title=\"Paywalls are a short-term fix, not a long-term solution\" href=\"http://www.emediavitals.com/content/paywalls-are-short-term-fix-not-long-term-solution\" target=\"_blank\">Paywalls are a short-term fix, not a long-term solution</a>\nTo paywall or not to paywall, that is one question. But a yes/no answer isn\'t simple. Read this to up your business thinking on ad, app and paid content strategy.\n\n<a title=\"Media Experts Dan Okrent, Jack Shafer, and David Carr Discuss ESPN’s Plagiarism Problem: “If I Were Them, I Would Be Embarrassed”\" href=\"http://deadspin.com/5963235/media-experts-dan-okrent-jack-shafer-and-david-carr-discuss-espns-plagiarism-problem-if-i-were-them-i-would-be-embarrassed\" target=\"_blank\">Media Experts Dan Okrent, Jack Shafer, and David Carr Discuss ESPN’s Plagiarism Problem: “If I Were Them, I Would Be Embarrassed”</a>\nYou know not to cut and paste from Wikipedia, but what’s your plan if a contributor does? Check out this dissection of ESPN’s response to significant plagiarism for handy dos and don’ts.\n\n<a title=\"Deborah Blum, Master of Reinvention!\" href=\"http://www.newspaperalum.com/2012/11/deborah-blum-master-of-reinvention.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Blum, Master of Reinvention!</a>\nCountless journalists continue to move to other careers, reluctantly or not. Many have found success. Insight and inspiration to reinvent yourself if you leave the media biz.', 'Journalism Accelerator Featured Links: November 30 - December 14, 2012 ', 'Secrets to local news sharing, how liveblogs draw in daytime news readers, what journos really need to know about cell phone use. Plus paywalls, plagiarism and inspiring moves out of media.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'journalism-accelerator-featured-links-november-30-december-14-2012', '', '', '2012-12-14 12:03:16', '2012-12-14 20:03:16', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15928', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15977, 3, '2012-12-18 09:59:48', '2012-12-18 17:59:48', 'Scholarships, clues to reach news junkies via mobile, why statistics — egad! — are vital for journalists, hope for freelancers, and how to vet demand, vital for startup success.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>List of scholarship sources for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a> students, from @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/cunyjschool\">cunyjschool</a>: <a href=\"http://t.co/g3qR7tsY\" title=\"http://bit.ly/121BDCc\">bit.ly/121BDCc</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23jschool\">#jschool</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/277458911135674370\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-08T17:05:34+00:00\">December 8, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What are the best strategies for news outlets to reach news consumers on mobile devices? <a href=\"http://t.co/Yx4JpyW1\" title=\"http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5470\">ajr.org/Article.asp?id…</a></p>&mdash; AJR Magazine (@AmJourReview) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AmJourReview/status/275997933474828288\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-04T16:20:09+00:00\">December 4, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A case for why <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalists\">#journalists</a> should learn <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23statistics\">#statistics</a>, from @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/eklucas\">eklucas</a> on @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/ire_nicar\">ire_nicar</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/cb9RqIzC\" title=\"http://bit.ly/XddZhM\">bit.ly/XddZhM</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23ddj\">#ddj</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/279285145163423744\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-13T18:02:22+00:00\">December 13, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A freelance report pegs copywriting as a source of major demand. <a href=\"http://t.co/LkZnGQft\" title=\"http://www.awaionline.com/2012/12/the-antidote-to-unemployment/\">awaionline.com/2012/12/the-an…</a></p>&mdash; SPJ Freelance (@SPJFreelance) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SPJFreelance/status/278328519585570817\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-11T02:41:04+00:00\">December 11, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>RT @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/wsj\">wsj</a>: How can you gauge market demand for your startup? What CEOs have to say: <a href=\"http://t.co/KOE0qahQ\" title=\"http://on.wsj.com/YwdtBC\">on.wsj.com/YwdtBC</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Accelerators\">#Accelerators</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23jpreneur\">#jpreneur</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/278546196958691328\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-11T17:06:03+00:00\">December 11, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: December 8 - December 14, 2012', 'Scholarships, clues to reach news junkies via mobile, why statistics — egad! — are vital for journalists, hope for freelancers, and how to vet demand, vital for startup success.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-december-8-december-14-2012', '', '', '2012-12-18 09:59:48', '2012-12-18 17:59:48', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15977', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(15983, 24, '2012-12-19 15:12:28', '2012-12-19 23:12:28', '[caption id=\"attachment_16018\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"198\" caption=\"Writer Calvin Trillin visiting the University of Oregon\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-16018   \" title=\"Trillin\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Trillin1-250x249.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin Trillin\" width=\"198\" height=\"197\" />[/caption]\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3508\" title=\"Journalism Accelerator\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ja-bug.png\" alt=\"Journalism Accelerator\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" />\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>The evolution of news media means journalists can tell stories <a href=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/pew-state-of-the-news-media-2012/\">many ways quickly</a>: through tweets, posts, live chats, short video takes or breaking-news blogging that’s refreshed by the minute.</em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>But with the advent of 140-character updates, the future of 3,000-word long-form stories is uncertain. </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Last week, the JA listened in as Calvin Trillin, a modern master of long-form narrative nonfiction, spoke with journalism professionals, students and scholars from nearby universities at the University of Oregon’s <a href=\"http://journalism.uoregon.edu/turnbull\" target=\"_blank\">Turnbull Center</a> in Portland. </em></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 65px;\"><em>Moderated by author and professor <a href=\"http://laurenkessler.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Kessler</a>, the conversation held gems for journalists and publishers looking to keep a place for deeply told stories in our fast-take, short-form world.</em><!--more--></p>\n<strong>Gone are the days when a newspaper reporter easily gets 200 inches for an in-depth feature.</strong> But multimedia may bring a new demand for and new ways of experiencing long-form narrative stories. <a href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed</a>, a website known for “breaking buzz” and tracking viral memes, recently <a href=\"http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/03/buzzfeeds-latest-is-this-the-future-of-magazines/\" target=\"_blank\">dove into the long-form world</a> with an in-depth story on the history of videogames, presented with bright pictures and old-school animation. Other outlets, such as <a href=\"https://www.atavist.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atavist</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=2486013011\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Kindle Singles</a> sell long-form, magazine-style stories for as low as $0.99.\n<div class=\"underwrite\">\n<h3>The Turnbull Center</h3>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15988\" title=\"University of Oregon: School of Journalism and Communication\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/UO-upper-logo-green-250x73.jpg\" alt=\"University of Oregon: School of Journalism and Communication\" width=\"250\" height=\"73\" />\n\nThe University of Oregon is based in Eugene, but its George S. Turnbull Center brings an academic journalism center to the Portland waterfront. The center is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/George-S-Turnbull-Center-UO-Portland/157598907613122?sk=info\" target=\"_blank\">intended to be</a> “an incubator for innovative ideas about the future of journalism and strategic communications...a forum where communication educators, students, researchers, practitioners, and citizens mix.”\n\nTurnbull is home to the U of O’s new Masters in Multimedia Journalism program. It also plays host to programs connecting undergrads to journalism professionals in Portland and holds discussions, workshops and other events for the public and the journalism community.\n\n</div>\nAt an evening with writer Calvin Trillin last week, Lauren Kessler, who directs the University of Oregon’s Master’s in Multimedia Journalism program, based at the Turnbull Center, said <strong>there is so much noise in the media now that people “hunger for” and “immediately glom on to” writers who offer a distinct voice.</strong>\n\n“The intelligent but not high-falutin’ voice,” she said in her introduction to Trillin. “The witty but not snarky voice. The quirky-but-not-insistently-so voice. I think we listen to that voice regardless of subject. We might, in fact, read an <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/books/for-trillin-parking-is-an-end-not-a-means.html\" target=\"_blank\">entire book about finding parking spaces in Manhattan</a> just to listen to that voice.”\n\n<a href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/calvin_trillin/search\" target=\"_blank\">Trillin</a> wrote a 213-page novel about the New York parking life of a man dubbed Murray Tepper. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, prolific contributor to The Nation and the author of nearly 30 nonfiction books, Trillin may well have written something on possibly close to everything.\n\nTrillin sipped a microbrew as he spoke to journalism students, professors and practitioners at Turnbull. <strong>Kessler praised his focus on the “narrative line” over the “dramatic story” and his ability to create journalism that is “both important and entertaining simultaneously.” </strong>We mined the conversation for tidbits valuable to writers and publishers with perhaps less time, but similar values. Or for anyone interested at a peek inside one great writer’s head.\n\n<strong>Trillin on technology:</strong> “I’m not really a good person to ask about technology. I’m always three technologies behind. I have a cassette deck in my car.\n\n\"When I did that <a href=\"http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-395-59367-7\" target=\"_blank\">series around the country</a>, I thought the biggest technological breakthrough for me was when places started to have copy shops, which are now gone. A place where I could take in a trial transcript or a bunch of clippings and say, ‘I’ll be back in a few hours to pick them up.’”\n\n<strong>Trillin on \"parachuting in\" for a story:</strong> “In these 3,000-word pieces I tended to stay roughly a work week (in a city) working on the story. I think there are advantages to coming in from the outside, in what used to be called ‘parachute journalism.’ But, there’s some disadvantages, obviously. In certain ways, you’ll never know as much as the local beat reporter. … You’re always a stranger. On the other hand, you’ll catch things that other people have sort of absorbed.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_16017\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"250\" caption=\"University of Oregon journalism students were among those hearing wit and wisdom from writer Calvin Trillin. Credit: Lisa Skube\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-16017\" title=\"Trillin Audience\" src=\"http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Trillin-audience-250x128.jpg\" alt=\"Trillin Audience\" width=\"250\" height=\"128\" />[/caption]\n\n“I don’t think I ever left thinking, ‘There’s really an important part of this story I’m not getting.’ And I don’t think I’m that aggressive of a reporter, but I think if you talk to enough people … In the first place, everyone has a different idea of what part is secret. So if you talk to enough people, you generally know enough to write the story.”\n\n<strong>Trillin on fact-checking:</strong> “I’m very big on the fact-checkers, even when they irritate me. There are reporters who are dismissive of fact-checking departments, and I think they’re either lazy reporters or liars. Because why would anybody be anything but grateful for somebody cleaning up after you?\n\n“The point...is to get things to the best of your ability right....After that, you can be poetic if you want to.”\n\n<strong>Trillin on the future:</strong> “I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to happen to long-form journalism. Certainly, it doesn’t seem to be a good period for magazines.\n\n“I’ve always thought reporters were sort of the last to know about the global issues of journalism.”\n\n<em>Are you writing long-form stories these days? How do you present them? What brings the most response from your community?</em>', 'Low-tech, high impact: Storytelling with Calvin Trillin', 'With trademark wit and down-to-earth reality, narrative non-fiction icon Calvin Trillin shares tales and tips with students, scholars and working journos.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'low-tech-high-impact-storytelling-with-calvin-trillin', '', '', '2012-12-19 15:12:28', '2012-12-19 23:12:28', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=15983', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(16073, 3, '2012-12-21 12:35:57', '2012-12-21 20:35:57', '<blockquote>The Internet Law Center is a firm dedicated to helping businesses navigate the evolving legal standards for today\'s digital economy.\n\nThe firm was founded by professionals with years of business and legal experience working in-house with internet companies who also have played a leading role in shaping law and policy on emerging internet issues.\n\nToday the firm serves a diverse client base that includes startups and public companies both online and offline across North America and Asia.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.internetlawcenter.net/#!\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Law Center</a></blockquote>', 'Internet Law Center', 'Offering legal help to online businesses, the Internet Law Center also publishes a weekly cyber report blog tracking news on Internet communications that could affect any publisher.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'internet-law-center', '', '', '2012-12-21 12:35:57', '2012-12-21 20:35:57', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=16073', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(16045, 3, '2012-12-21 12:54:47', '2012-12-21 20:54:47', '<blockquote>Three years ago, J-Lab launched the first round of what would turn out to be nine pilot projects in collaborative journalism in the United States. Now, the verdicts – and the lessons learned – are in.\n\nThere is good news and bad news. A majority of the projects delivered success far beyond our expectations and a notable level of creativity; others did yeoman\'s work. And, unfortunately, a couple projects failed. ...\n\nBottom line: At its height, the nine hub newsrooms had grown their networks from 44 partners to 169; 146 partners are still participating. ... The overall score: Five wins, two hits and two losses.\"\n<strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.j-lab.org/publications/net-j/overview/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Lab</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>Commenting on the fluid nature of even the successful networks, [J-Lab Executive Director Jan] Schaffer observed that ‘partners come and they go,’ adding: ‘Some divorce the network, some die in an emerging news ecosystem that is still quite fragile. Indeed, only two of the projects still have the identical partners they launched with.\n\nThe path forward for journalism, she concluded constructively, is ‘iterative.’ But the Columbia team was a bit more blunt: ‘There is no solution to the present crisis…. [T]here is no stable state coming to the practice of news any time soon.’” <strong>Source: </strong><a href=\"http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2012/12/whats-next-for-press-they-dont-know.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alan D. Mutter, Newsosaur</a><strong>\n</strong></blockquote>', 'Networked Journalism: What Works', 'A reflection on nine pilot projects in collaborative journalism, highlighting what worked and what didn\'t. Key takeaways: Content sharing can work; revenue sharing \"a tough nut to crack.\"', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'networked-journalism-what-works', '', '', '2012-12-21 12:54:47', '2012-12-21 20:54:47', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=16045', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(16056, 3, '2012-12-21 12:55:47', '2012-12-21 20:55:47', '<blockquote>In  this discussion paper, we argue for a shift in focus—toward the goal of  scaling entire industry sectors, in addition to individual firms. Our  experience from the past eight years is that impact investors can  massively increase the number of lives they touch by concentrating  investments in specific industry sectors in specific geographies, and by  investing in a range of organizations to accelerate the development of  these industry segments. The need for investment is particularly acute  at the earliest stages of innovation, which provide the foundation in  which entire new sectors can emerge and scale rapidly by tapping  commercial capital markets.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/Priming%20the%20Pump_Omidyar%20Network_Sept_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Bannick &amp; Paula Goldman, Omidyar</a></blockquote>', 'Priming the Pump: The Case for a Sector Based Approach to Impact Investing', 'A strategic vision from an investment firm finds real impact by directing money to entire sectors. How can this help journalism, as an entire industry, thrive?', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'priming-the-pump-the-case-for-a-sector-based-approach-to-impact-investing', '', '', '2012-12-21 12:55:47', '2012-12-21 20:55:47', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=16056', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(16061, 3, '2012-12-21 12:37:24', '2012-12-21 20:37:24', '<blockquote>Mention Mapp is the perfect way to find relevant users by allowing you to discover who interacts the most with what you and they are talking about.\n\nMention Mapp works by uploading users’ tweets and displaying data visualizations of discussions between users  in clusters. The lines drawn between nodes [i.e., users, hashtags, images, etc.] become thicker if the users talked about each other more often. This draws the viewer’s attention to big discussions. Hovering over an edge also reveals the exact number of mentions.” <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.cloutmediaonline.com/map-your-twitter-discourse-effectively-connect-with-relevant-users/\" target=\"_blank\">Clout Media</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote>Every Twitter client out there gives you a list of your mentions. But to see the relationships between you and the people that you mention is time consuming and usually involves a lot of scrolling. Go one step further to try to trace the way that other people are connected to you and to other Twitter users by the conversations that they have and it becomes an impossible task.\n\nMentionmap is a sweet tool that not only allows you to see the people that you have the most conversations with but also the way that other Twitter users connect to you. Just enter any Twitter user name to be presented with a sweet interactive map of connections that you can explore. <strong>Source:</strong> <a href=\"http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/05/09/mentionmap-is-a-cool-interactive-map-of-twitter-connections/\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Web</a></blockquote>', 'Mentionmapp', 'An interactive map shows you new tweeps close to your network, helps you see who you interact with most frequently and easily track conversations going on now. Broad audience insight.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'mentionmapp', '', '', '2012-12-21 12:37:24', '2012-12-21 20:37:24', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=16061', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(16110, 3, '2012-12-21 17:28:14', '2012-12-22 01:28:14', 'Big data for crisis maps, guidance for journalists sharing opinions, new opportunities with augmented reality, profitable newspapers (really), and Frontline\'s secrets for successful collaboration.\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Big Data and Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Crisis Mapping <a href=\"http://t.co/Ybbouqlj\" title=\"http://soc.li/4aXOu0F\">soc.li/4aXOu0F</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Analytics\">#Analytics</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23bigdata\">#bigdata</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Socialmedia\">#Socialmedia</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Datamanagement\">#Datamanagement</a></p>&mdash; Christophe Brasseur (@mydatanews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mydatanews/status/280799838294138880\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-17T22:21:13+00:00\">December 17, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Thoughts? Like? Digital First Media\'s guidance for journalists expressing opinions: <a href=\"http://t.co/ZkcgZsRC\" title=\"http://bit.ly/12xUPYz\">bit.ly/12xUPYz</a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism\">#journalism</a></p>&mdash; Society of Pro Journ (@spj_tweets) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/spj_tweets/status/281109715117821952\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-18T18:52:33+00:00\">December 18, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>On @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/training_media\">training_media</a>: A look at ways news outlets are making use of augmented reality <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23tech\">#tech</a> in editorial &amp; <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23advertising\">#advertising</a> <a href=\"http://t.co/RyZcx42X\" title=\"http://bit.ly/XBuft4\">bit.ly/XBuft4</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/281445258506690560\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-19T17:05:53+00:00\">December 19, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>A look at newspapers turning a profit <a href=\"http://t.co/njDmr500\" title=\"http://bit.ly/UY41P9\">bit.ly/UY41P9</a></p>&mdash; Lisa Carricaburu (@lcarricaburu) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/lcarricaburu/status/280717549786783744\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-17T16:54:14+00:00\">December 17, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n<h4><span style=\"color: #469ced;\">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Frontline\'s reporters &amp; editors at partner orgs. work together to produce groundbreaking documentary programming <a href=\"http://t.co/vuxxa4vk\" title=\"http://teeming.trib.al/EPf3l7V\">teeming.trib.al/EPf3l7V</a></p>&mdash; CollaborationCentral (@CollabCentral) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CollabCentral/status/277136580370644993\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-07T19:44:44+00:00\">December 7, 2012</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>', 'Tweets for Keeps: December 15 - December 21, 2012', 'Big data for crisis maps, guidance for journalists sharing opinions, new opportunities with augmented reality, profitable newspapers (really), and Frontline\'s secrets for successful collaboration.', 'publish', 'open', 'closed', '', 'tweets-for-keeps-december-15-december-21-2012', '', '', '2012-12-21 17:28:14', '2012-12-22 01:28:14', '', 0, 'http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/?p=16110', 0, 'post', '', 0);
