The Boston Globe is the latest Top 30 newspaper to use alternative methods to gathering news. For the Sunday Globe it was eight journalism graduate students from Northeastern University for a Page One piece "advocating for senior citizens." Neither the content nor the level of reporting is at issue; what is is the experimentation we […]
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Silicon Valley conclave to draw innovators
The Public Press will make a prominent showing at the Journalism That Matters conference at the headquarters of Yahoo Inc. at the end of the month. More than 150 high-tech and media pioneers from a range of industries are meeting for a “concept/design mashup” as part of a nationwide conversation — one aimed at making […]
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New journalism business models
Media reformers across the country have long complained that the current print media paradigm is in need of an overhaul. The Public Press concept is one effort to make up for inadequacies in the business model that has, until recently, supported robust print journalism. Approaching those new — and as yet unknown — business models […]
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The Public Press on Marin community radio
Bit by bit, the Public Press project is getting noticed. I just got off the air from an hourlong interview with Jonathan Rowe, host of the talk show "America Offline" on KWMR, the community radio station in West Marin County. Rowe, a former reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, has a keen understanding of the […]
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Gaps in Bay Area coverage
Though the Public Press team is looking to construct a local news organization that’s innovative in its business model, production, design, financing, management, technology and distribution, the raison detre of this exercise is to cover stories that traditionally have been ignored in the press. This is the fun part: pushing the boundaries of what professional […]
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Seeking solutions to the media meltdown
Even as vital Bay Area journalistic institutions seemed to crumble before their eyes, a panel of media reformers at the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley, sounded almost optimistic Wednesday night. Just a day after the Bay Area News Group, which gobbled up the San Jose Mercury News a year and a half […]
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The Public Press on the Web begins
This is our first foray into a new electronic platform for a global discussion about kick-starting a noncommercial press. We are about 70 years behind broadcasting, but it’s never too late.