I took the 6am flight to NYC and made it just in time for the start of the Network Journalism Summit. The first panel was about how traditional newspapers are interacting with citizen journalists by creating sites that give them a voice. The most interesting point to me is that most of these organizations reverse-publish content from the community participants in the print version of the paper. They all say that this strategy is the main carrot that drives participation in the communities.
John Wilpers of BostonNow.com said that of the 500 community bloggers they have, at least half of them have been published in the paper itself. He even said that they are looking into ways to compensate these bloggers monetarily, based on traffic, clicks or some other measure of their impact.
My panel went well...I think...but we will have to see what the people say. You can follow the conference through the tag Netj. Here is the technorati link that I am tracking the conversation with.
More to come later...
Jeff,
Nice segment today on BlogTalkRadio. Interesting conversation about online ads. I'm going to have to go back and listen again because I missed a few bits. Speaking of which, your fans can find the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/njs. Have a great rest of the conference.
Posted by: Luke Armour | Oct 10, 2007 at 11:54
Wish I can be there. Sounds very interesting over there at the Summit.
Posted by: vrempire | Jan 07, 2008 at 10:23