Comments on: Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state

By: Retraining Wire and Feature Editors to Be Web Curators - Publishing 2.0

Retraining Wire and Feature Editors to Be Web Curators - Publishing 2.0 — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:22:33 +0000

[...] from the editors in Washington State who have been practicing collaborative curation, whether for a statewide flood or a flu [...]

By: Announcing Digital Sunlight: Publish2’s Platform for Collaborative Journalism » Publish2 Blog

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:36:32 +0000

[...] among journalists and newsrooms using Publish2, all arising from big news events, e.g. floods in Washington state, Obama’s inauguration, the Blagojevich [...]

By: Announcing Digital Sunlight: Publish2’s Platform for Collaborative Journalism - Publishing 2.0

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:35:17 +0000

[...] among journalists and newsrooms using Publish2, all arising from big news events, e.g. floods in Washington state, Obama’s inauguration, the Blagojevich [...]

By: Why local-news aggregation is useful information, not information overload - Publishing 2.0

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:55:09 +0000

[...] post on the Washington state linking project focused on the awesome innovation involved and on the benefits of collaborative linking in general. [...]

By: Sarah (GenMom)

Sarah (GenMom) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:47:45 +0000

This is AWESOME! I am teaching a Convergent Journalism class at a local college and this is exactly what we are talking about. In fact, a student brought it to my attention. You are on my class blog now!

http://www.genesismoments.com/writing_for_the_media/

http://www.twitter.com/GenMom

By: Collaborative journalism in action plus, any spare change for Twitter? « Sarah Hartley

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:54:30 +0000

[...] As Josh Korr starts in his post A revolution begins quietly begins in Washing State. [...]

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:01:19 +0000

This is a great example of people putting their heads together to make something happen.

By: DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Blog Archive » Link Drop Contextd for the Week Ending in Friday the 23rd (January 2009)

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:01:15 +0000

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By: Une presse qui meurt, un journalisme qui renaît et quelques ovnis qui passent… | Enketi

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:33:23 +0000

[...] Networked link journalism : A revolution quietly begins in Washington state [...]

By: chuckl

chuckl — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:54:33 +0000

Brilliant, but why stop there? Why not mash it up with pictures, video, audio, and the types of information available on everyblock.com. Newspapers all have these resources available. The cost of media online is miniscule and its value inestimable.

By: Dziennikarstwo 2.0, czyli “Real-Time Journalism”? | Human after all

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:03:16 +0000

[...] i ostatnim gwo?dziem do trumny dla upadaj?cej prasy. Edwin Bendyk napisa? ostatnio o “networked link journalism“, opisuj?c przypadek, gdy dziennikarze ró?nych gazet podj?li wspó?prac? za pomoc? [...]

By: Dziennikarstwo 2.0, czyli “Real-Time Jurnalism”? | Human after all

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:55:48 +0000

By: Chapel Hill: Let’s try covering breaking news collectively at The Water’s Fine

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:48:31 +0000

[...] by the recent efforts in Washington state following flooding, I’m really interested to see what Chapel Hill’s [...]

By: Eadaoin

Eadaoin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:56:49 +0000

@Josh Korr – ‘there’s no reason the process behind the collaboration couldn’t be applied to many other topics’. Can you suggest some? That this kind of collaboration works very well for a local weather story is indisputable, but I’m not so sure it’s a really useful future model for journalism beyond this – but I’d be very interested in other examples of where and how it’d work to prove me wrong.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:33:18 +0000

Oops. I included a link, but apparently your blog software automatically deleted it. Here: tinyurl dot com slash 88s69l

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:28:58 +0000

@Tammi: What I’m referring to is this: “Particularly fascinating was the piece in which the managing director of Northwestern’s Media Management Center, Vivian Vahlberg, explained how newspapers that cram their sites with every possible bell and whistle are misinterpreting what their youngest readers want; millennials prefer online offerings that are lean, curated and respectful of their limited time.”

I do not see this approach in the project here described. It’s great collaboration, no doubt, but the outcome is that news websites throw a couple of dozen links at their readers for them to choose from. The fact that they are commented does not mean I have the time to read even a third of the stories behind those links.

By: Mis lecturas en Google Reader - 16/1/2009 | Vida Vacia

Mis lecturas en Google Reader - 16/1/2009 | Vida Vacia — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:00:57 +0000

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By: Josh Korr

Josh Korr — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:52:22 +0000

@Ryan, I’m also usually a cynic about basic weather stories. But I don’t think there’s any way a major regional disaster (or potential disaster) like last week’s floods could be considered just an average cliched weather story.

Even if it had been “just” another weather story, there’s no reason the process behind the collaboration couldn’t be applied to many other topics — whether allegedly frivolous or good and substantive.

Also, everyone should check out this Paul Balcerak post about the collaboration and the response to the collaboration (including my post). I especially like this bit:

“The old mentality of being hostile toward your competition or ignoring them has got to go. By all means, be competitive, but understand that essentially, you’re all trying to do the same thing. It also doesn’t hurt to remember that the business is mostly tanking and if there were ever a time for teamwork, it’s now.”

By: Tammi

Tammi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:58:16 +0000

@Matthias, Links with summaries of what is in the story, why one should read it, and relevant tags are all options to include. In fact, links have a much higher editorial value when the journalists take the time to say why a story is relevant and important to the readers.
You have a list of “required reading” links on your blog. Is that somehow different that what these reporters are doing?
As blogs and now many major media sites show, at the very least, a well-curated set of links offers a nice benefit to readers who are interested in a topic or the person who is recommending the content.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:02:14 +0000

Ryan, I like how you minimalize our plight at the hands of cruel mother nature’s destructive wrath that spanned several counties. (Just kidding, just kidding. ) You shouldn’t get so hung up on the little details like subject of coverage.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:54:46 +0000

I like the idea of collabrative journalism across companies, like CSM and McClatchy on a micro level. But the main problem is the subject, you just can’t expect newspapers to be around to really explore Web 2.0 stuff if weather stories are the only thing they can come up with. Don’t mean to be a downer and I realize for local breaking news its nice, but a weather story is still a weather story, no matter who tells it or how.

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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:50:04 +0000

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By: cnawan

cnawan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:34:19 +0000

Nicely done. You’re almost at the stage of the citizen journalists during the Mumbai attacks, with their delicious.com shared bookmarks, flickr photos and wikipedia article/clearing house.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:01:09 +0000

Hi there, interesting. But amidst all the enthusiasm I’d like to ask whether a list of links is what readers expect from journalists. In my opinion it’s more important to provide roundups with relevant information. I don’t have the time to read through 25 different stories to get a picture of the situation.

By: Rob Darrow

Rob Darrow — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:58:39 +0000

Althought I am not a journalist, but am a Web 2.0 user, I think it is important to note that the cost of this was not “0″. Although the technology used may have been free, these people’s time and knowledge to make this all happen has a value.

By: Site O Rific

Site O Rific — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:10:36 +0000

I have many business associates that I have never met. I kind of prefer it that way now!

By: Tom Salzer

Tom Salzer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:35:31 +0000

This has been fascinating to observe as tweets emerge in real time (or nearly so…there have been a few Twitter hiccups along the way). One problem that surfaced, at least from my perspective, is Twitter spam (for lack of a better term) in which information not related to the #waflood tag/topic keeps filling up the search results. I’m curious if other readers have ideas on how to deal with this. Wallowing through unrelated information to get to the contextual information is, at best, a distraction. …Oh, and by the way: great idea, and great work!

By: Michael Becker

Michael Becker — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:24:54 +0000

This is a fantastic example of what can happen when you have just a few Twitter-savvy reporters working on a big story spread out across a region. It almost makes me want to go back to daily journalism, wait for a big story to happen, and then get to work with other journalists around the state!

Yay for the future of journalism!

By: Notes from a Teacher - Saturday squibs

Notes from a Teacher - Saturday squibs — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:06:32 +0000

[...] Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state. This is one of the most significant things that happened in journalism last week. I’m not kidding. Go read about how four newspapers collaboratively covered Washington State’s weather mess. Four newspapers owned by four different companies. Driven by the folks on the ground. [...]

By: lovable liberal

lovable liberal — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:20:10 +0000

Cheap and fast, so probably this will be popular, but it looks to me like a way to share the conventional wisdom (perhaps the biggest public service problem of modern journalism) without even having to go to a bar together after filing the first day’s stories. Skipping the bar? I’m not sure that’s progress.

By: O futuro do jornalismo colaborativo : Ponto Media

O futuro do jornalismo colaborativo : Ponto Media — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:39:02 +0000

[...] no Twitter de manhã e à tarde já era um projecto sólido. O futuro do jornalismo colaborativo pode estar [...]

By: jardenberg kommenterar - 2009-01-10 | jardenberg unedited

jardenberg kommenterar - 2009-01-10 | jardenberg unedited — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:00:46 +0000

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By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:26:09 +0000

Excellent idea. And I love the fact that because Publish2 is only open to journalists, it eliminates spammers from taking over the waflood tag. Spectacular.

By: IowaLiz

IowaLiz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:21:45 +0000

Natural disasters tend to bring out the best in collaboration and innovation. Let’s hope it can be sustainable.

By: Link Journalism - eclecticism

Link Journalism - eclecticism — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:55:13 +0000

[...] 2.0 (which I found via a #waflood tagged tweet from Evan Calkins this morning) looking into the creation, evolution, and use of the #waflood tag over the past few [...]

By: Watching Our Water Ways » Blog Archive » Online technology means up-to-date weather info

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:39:02 +0000

[...] story of this week’s collaboration was featured today in the online publication “Publishing 2,” which reports on developments regarding an online system that helps connect journalists together. [...]

By: Marshall King

Marshall King — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:27:37 +0000

Wow. Very cool. Thanks for the information and analysis. It shows how innovation can help the communities journalists cover and how journalists can be relevant.

A reporter who left here and just started at Medill said only 2 of the 20 in her class are on Twitter. That surprised me, but others reminded me that it’s a new technology and not mainstream.

This shows how journalists can use it well.

By: Elaine Helm

Elaine Helm — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:40:39 +0000

Thanks for the great post on our collaborative efforts to cover flooding in Washington state.

My newspaper’s Web site is now featuring RSS feeds for the waflood tag from both Publish2 and Twitter on a special flood page we whipped up this afternoon: http://www.heraldnet.com/flood.

I hope this inspires other journalists to jump in and try these new tools. It’s easy and rewarding.