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The National Civic Review, the quarterly journal of the National Civic League (“Now in its 98th year of publication”), has its Winter 2008 issue out. The issue has a 6-page article by Julie Fanselow titled Community Blogging: The New Wave of Citizen Journalism (PDF). The article includes the Northfield projects I’m involved with, Locally Grown and [...] I don’t know the Nieman Journalism Lab guys personally but Mathew Ingram’s blog post today, “Locally grown” news gets a boost acknowledged the good stuff happening with Locally Grown, the group blog and podcast that I co-host in my hometown of Northfield. The ‘boost’ to hyperlocal sites like ours that he’s referring to is [...] Representative Journalism (RepJ) creator Leonard Witt (professor at KSU in Georgia, Public Journalism Network blogger) arrived in Northfield last night for a series of meetings (through Saturday) on the Northfield RepJ project at its six-month point. I took this photo of Len and RepJ reporter Bonnie Obremski having breakfast this morning. I first blogged [...] In today’s Wall St. Journal: All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper; Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists. Paul Mulshine, opinion columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, misses the point when he argues that citizens aren’t likely to voluntarily ‘cover,’ for example, city council meetings for their blogs in the same way that a [...] Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalism (PIJ) project hosted a moderated discussion last Friday night in their UBS Forum. A group of about 20 citizens selected from their PIJ database were invited to discuss the topic: The Press and the Public: What’s the new relationship? A group of about 10 attendees from the Journalism That [...] What is twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Like my colleague Michael Fraase, I tried Twitter a few times when it was first introduced but it didn’t ‘take hold’ for me. But [...] The community blog and podcast that I co-host in my hometown, Locally Grown, has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism, led by Communication Chair and Associate Professor Leonard Witt and colleagues at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. See Len’s blog post for details, as well as this press release (PDF). Over [...] I teamed up with the folks from the Sitting Bull College Horizons Project to teach a community blogging class in Minot North Dakota yesterday. We had about a dozen people from both the Spirit Lake Nation and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation communities (also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes). [...]
I teamed up with the folks (David Isham, Susan Beaulieu, Al Nygard, and Deborah His Horse is Thunder) from the Sitting Bull College Horizons Project to teach a community blogging class in Bemidji yesterday. It was my largest class to-date, 15, with people from Red Lake, White Earth and Leech Lake communities. With that [...] Jessica Peterson and I teamed up for another Horizons community blogging class last night, this time in Wabasha, MN (“home of The National Eagle Center and Grumpy Old Men“). We also had participants from Hokah. Click the photos to enlarge. Also joining us, like he did last week in Floodwood, was Martin Wera [...] I was the trainer last night for a Horizons community blogging class in St. James, MN – with participants also from Mountain Lake and Elmore. Click the photo to enlarge. (We also had three high school students in the class but they had to depart early.) I teamed up with fellow Northfielder Jessica Peterson (right) who’s [...] Lori Rothstein and I teamed up for another Horizons community blogging class last night, this time in Floodwood, MN at the Floodwood School, courtesy of Floodwood Schools Superintendent Palmer Anderson. This time, however, class participants were from surrounding communities, too, including Chisolm, Eveleth and Mountain Iron. Those Eveleth bloggers (center photo, center two [...] I was the trainer last night for a Horizons community blogging class in New York Mills, MN, home of the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center and the Great American Think-Off. Lori Rothstein (right) is the Horizons coach in northern Minnesota and we teamed up to whip the gang of troublemakers (left, click to enlarge) [...] I’ve created eleven screencasts for the Northwest Area Foundation’s Horizons Community Blogging Project. The topics: Why blogWhat to blogHow to blog effectivelyHow to promote a blogHow to use WordPress basicsHow to embed imagesHow to embed videoHow to customize a blogHow to manage blog commentsHow to set up new bloggers Although these community blogging screencasts are specific [...] Today’s Star Tribune South section has a piece on me and my Locally Grown colleagues. They’re not citizen journalists so much as “three citizens shooting our mouths off,” Wigley said. Swearing and faux news happen on Locally Grown, and the co-hosts rarely miss a chance to make fun of their own work, or [...] |
  
  
 
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