The future of journalism is in Las Vegas — or at least that’s what Rob Curley, multimedia extraordinaire and tech consultant for The Las Vegas Sun, imbued into a large group of entrepreneurs and media folks at Stanford business school Tuesday night. “What if a newspaper could start over?” he began his presentation by asking. […]
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The Public Press at the Web 2.0 Expo
In early April, The Public Press attended the Web 2.0 Expo at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, and was flooded with interest from technologists and entrepreneurs. Steering committee member Lila LaHood had the chance to speak with a reporter from KRON 4 News.
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NPR’s Vivian Schiller addresses ‘buzz’ on expanding public-media model
The new CEO of National Public Radio, Vivian Schiller, spoke on video recently with Knight Pulse, a journalism blog from the Knight Foundation. She said she’s encouraged by the proliferation of public-media startups around the country. The "buzz" around the notion that newspapers try to live off endowments is misleading, she argued, because it […]
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Alert: Help us fund a story about the closure of Stacey’s Bookstore
UPDATE 3/4/09: This story was fully funded in less than 24 hours! Thanks to all the contributors, listed here: http://spot.us/pitches/139 * * * As part of our ongoing collaboration with the journalism microfunding project Spot.us, we’ve put up a "pitch" for a daily story we think needs to get covered … Can you help us […]
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KQED interviews Public Press project director
In the wake of Hearst Corp.’s announcement Tuesday that it will impose extreme budget cuts at the San Francisco Chronicle and possibly sell or shutter the paper, KQED’s Kelly Wilkinson interviewed Public Press Project Director Michael Stoll about developing models for sustainable news organizations. The interview first aired on Feb. 25, 2009. You can listen […]
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Forum focuses on ‘Crisis at the Chronicle’
KQED’s Forum devoted an hour to discussing the possibility that San Francisco could lose its only major daily newspaper. Host Michael Krasny led a conversation with Carl Hall, local representative of the California Media Workers Guild; Louis Freedberg, director of the California Media Collaborative; and Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for […]
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San Francisco Chronicle could close. What will fill the void?
The announcement by the Hearst Corp. that it is considering closing the San Francisco Chronicle is a defining moment for startup local journalism projects like The Public Press. Cuts in the newspaper business across the country have astounded journalists and readers as we’ve contemplated the effects of a vanishing press. The possibility that the San […]
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Fitzhugh-Craig Joins The Public Press as News Editor
Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, the former city editor of the Oakland Tribune, is joining The Public Press as news editor. As the project’s first editorial appointment, Fitzhugh-Craig will coordinate a growing pool of volunteer and freelance journalists who have converged to bring important and under-covered news stories to broad audiences in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fitzhugh-Craig […]
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Spot.us and The Public Press on NPR
Martina Castro, a reporter for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day," produced a recent story exploring the notion that the audience can help fund independent reporting. The piece, "Is Community-Funded Journalism the Answer?" focuses on David Cohn’s Spot.Us project, as he asserts that small donations spread over a large group can be immune […]
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Seeking solutions to ailing media business
The San Francisco Bay Guardian printed an interesting piece this week on the need to encourage more independent local voices. The article, which cites The Public Press as a hopeful example of media innovation, points to the source of the crisis in journalism: economic sustainability. While there’s no shortage of good coverage ideas, there are […]