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News Leadership 3.0 — Community info building blocks: What do you already have?
Communities need relevant, timely information in order to function well. Traditional narrative-format news is one way to package that information. News stories work great as snapshots, but generally...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Teamwork: Collaborating to build a community dashboard
Driving is much easier—and safer—when you can see the dashboard. It helps to know how fast you’re going, whether your engine is overheating, and how much gas you have left. Plus, if you’re driving a...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Civic topic pages: Boost local traffic, democracy
In most communities, getting up to speed on—and involved in—local civic issues is more work than it should be. In a guest post, Amy Gahran offers one strategy that will enable news organizations to...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Government 2.0: What’s in it for local news?
The fast-growing Government 2.0 movement could create opportunities for news orgs to get more local news and engagement without necessarily having to write more traditional stories. (This is the fourth...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Make key government documents easier to find, understand
“Who will cover city hall?” That’s a common (and valid) lament about the decline of the news business. If shrinking the void of local civic news is important to your news organization and local...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Volunteering widget: Basic gateway to civic engagement
Engaged citizens rarely pop out of thin air. Often, volunteering is the “gateway drug” that gets them hooked on learning about, and working to enhance, their community. If your news organization wants...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Promising community news sites – An update
The list is growing—This week we’ve added “new traditionals” sites that employ professional journalists and rely on relatively big budgets as wells as entrepreneurial “micro local” Here’s the growing...
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News Leadership 3.0 — If news orgs & journos won’t provide local civic news,...
As I read through the Knight Commission report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age,” I was struck by how little it had to say about how professional journalists and...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Partnering with libraries, “natural sites of media...
Libraries and news organizations have much in common. They both seek to keep people informed, and they both have a long history of providing civic information. Thus, they may be well positioned to...
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News Leadership 3.0 — Google’s “Gig” fiber network: Could it help your town?
On Feb. 10, Google announced the initial, experimental roll out of their own high-speed broadband fiber network—initially to “a small number of trial locations” across the US. According to Google’s...
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News Leadership 3.0 — LIVEBLOG Mar 1-2: Community foundations, media/tech...
Community foundations are a growing source of funding for local news and media. By learning how community foundations work, what they want, and how to work with them, journalists can get help launching...
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News Leadership 3.0 — National Broadband Plan: Opportunities for community...
Amy Gahran On March 17, the FCC will deliver to Congress the controversial new National Broadband Plan—and this morning the nation got a preview of what this plan offers at an event co-hosted by the...
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New report examines public library’s growing role as online civic hub
[Re-posted from the News Leadership 3.0 Blog of Knight Digital Media Center.] In the past year, about a third of Americans age 14 and over (about 77 million people) accessed the internet at a public...
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Going on the record: Civic engagement is for journalists, too!
The traditional culture and ethics of professional journalism encourage journalists to hold themselves aloof from the communities they cover; to maintain objectivity through distance. Generally this...
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Seeking sustainability: The business of nonprofit journalism
by Michele McLellan, Knight Digital Media Center Re-posted with permission from Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 Blog. Community connectedness and diverse revenue streams are critical...
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