More on Journalism-as-Collaboration
We are not the first newspaper to begin regularly posting readers' contributions online. That honor, so far as I know, belongs to The Bakersfield Californian, whose Your Words section posts reader-written stories online. Some of those stories also have been printed in the newspaper.
We launched YourNews almost a year ago and continue to receive and publish contributions. But we're also hoping to team professionals in our newsroom with interested people in the community to produce stories of general interest that are intended, from the git-go, to be published both online and in the print edition of the News & Record.
Since we launched the Town Square initiative 13 months ago, we've tried to make journalism more of a conversation and more of a partnership/collaboration with the communities we serve. Those concepts can be understood metaphorically, but we're talking about literal, meatspace partnerships, too. If you're interested in taking part, or have a story idea, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.
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I would contribute if I didn't live so far away but on a different note, what happened to Blog on the Run? It seems to have disappeared.
Posted on February 2, 2006 10:13 PM
I took it down. I'm going to take a little (personal) blogging break and catch up on my offline reading (i.e., the foot-tall stack of books on my night table, plus another dozen-plus on my to-buy list) before deciding what else to do online as a hobby ... possibly something involving audio/video, but I'm not sweating the details right now.
Posted on February 6, 2006 5:19 PM