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Hope you have been well. I started my new gig yesterday. I am the Executive Producer of The Michael Eric Dyson Show, a new Corporation for Public Broadcasting multicultural news/talk initiative. Please pitch me your story ideas directly at da...@dysonshow.org. I am hoping to do a feature on Joe Grimm and Emilia Askari's Dearborn High School project. Also, we are looking for News & Social Media interns and I was hoping you can help me spread the word? Thanks much, Davar

Great stuff!
Also, all, I will get an update within the next day or so of the Innovate
100 event Joe, Amelia and I attended at the Reynolds Institute for
Journalism this week. Wow! It was awesome. I was blown away at the pitches
provided and some of the ideas that are out there!
Two kids (sophomores in high school) won runner up for their idea of

Dear JTMers,
I follow a discussion group called Locals
Online<%20[link]>that brings
together a lot of people who study or practice building
community through internet sites. I thought you would find one item from a
recent study really interesting. You can look for the entire thread on the

If you're interested in what Patch.com is doing, but want to own your own business at the end of the day...
LocallyGrownNews.com has been enjoying a growth spurt this past summeras we launched sites in Greensboro and Winston-Salem. And we've beencultivating larger visibility for the project at several regionalconferences. Now, it's time for us to reach out to those who'veexpressed interest in the site and see if you're interested in jumpinginto this project.

I cross-posted this link on the Digital Journalism Task Force (NABJ) listserv, but thought it was most appropriate for our intrepid group of entrepreneurs. Don't be disheartened...let's find and create our own angel/venture capital networks for the North Carolina conference!
Mike Green posted this summary on the DJTF listserv as an introduction:

Chris Hedges will be at a journalism event August 6, 2010 in Dearborn.
Giving Voice to Our Youth, is a scholarship banquet dinner that will be held
at Byblos Banquet Center at 6:30 p.m. to award a few journalism students and
talk about where Islam and Muslims stand when it comes to the media.
The event will be hosted by The Muslim Observer Foundation.

The Information Super-Sewer
[link]
Posted on Feb 15, 2010
By Chris Hedges
The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests
to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great
promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural

Part of ³sense-making² for me is the discovery of what the people need to
know as society navigates away from Fourth Estate form of journalism.
Citizens ranging from college students to engineers to physicians and
educators told me they want to produce their own stories.
Early this year I began to offer training sessions in video production to

Hi all,
I went off on vacation without bringing to closure what I know about the conversation on the culture we are creating among us that was sparked by Cambrey's message asking for support.
In the midst of the exchange on the list, I had a conversation with the person who called Cambrey. I provided some direct feedback on the inappropriateness of his tone when he spoke with Cambrey. Based on his response, I don't think he realized how he came across. I do believe he heard me, though that doesn't guarantee it wouldn't happen again.

Thanks for pointing this out, Latoya. In my work with legacy journalists moving into new media and NPO management, that is lesson number one they need to learn.
I've found this in my work as a fundraising coach to new NPO managers. A journalist ED new to his or her role running an NPO might have no problem asking for money, nor indeed even telling a story of what they will do with the money. Funders also might have some trust in the journalist ED earned over time by doing good journalism. But still, ultimately, the funders will judge the success of their investment in an ED through his or her execution and delivery of the job that needs to be done.

Attached is a job description for a part-time community engagement assistant.  Please circulate within your networks and also let me know if you know someone who might meet be interested in apply.  Feel free to share my contact information.
 
Thank you.
 
Brenda
Brenda Williams-Butts
Director of Community Engagement & Audience Development

Latoya crystallized what I was thinking. I am also of two minds. Cambrey,
you have guts, but you need a better argument to for us to donate other than
you want to attend your dream school.
My big question after seeing the "ask" was: Why choose such an expensive
school -- and city -- for a journalism masters degree? There are other

I'm of two minds on this situation.
I understand the need for dialogue - after all, everyone who came to JTM
participated for a reason. However, this person did choose to remove
themselves from the list-serv, and air their grievances privately instead of
publicly. That said, perhaps Peggy or Linda may want to reach out to this

Again - It was not the person's reaction to the "ask" - the person has every right to that.
Had the person posted the reaction, that would be their right.
Instead, the person tracked down her phone number, and called her.
The receiver considers the call to have been harassing as her "apology" email clearly demonstrates.

I'm w/ Melissa. As has been mentioned already, that person was prob not alone in his or her reax to the request. I don't think we should be censorng anybody for their honest & not unusual response. At the very least, it's stimulated a very interesting discussion.
Linda
Take care, Melissa

I wanted to let the group know about a media conference that the
Citizen Media Law Project and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at
Kennesaw State University are organizing in Atlanta, GA on Saturday
September 25, 2010.

There will be topics to help journalists transitioning to independent

Well, I've finally gotten my chance to write my thoughts on this at
Going Meta - Student Speech, Education, Sharks, Lady Gaga, Richard
Blumenthal, Linda McMahon and Colin McEnroe
[link]
Besides Ms Wojcicki's article, it also links to Paul Farhi's artice in AJR
about 'Traffic Problems'.

This line blew me away this morning:
"Far too many of our future
journalists, citizens and leaders unquestioningly accept that school
administrators -- government officials -- should have the authority to
dictate what they read, write and talk about. "

But the more I think about my own 20-year-old daughter and some of my

The Media Consortium are collaborating to run "Open Journalism & the Open
Web," a FREE, six-week interactive online course that will bring together
journalists and programmers. Registration is now open. Limited space is
available -- there are spaces for twenty programmers and twenty journalist
-- and registration is first-come, first-served.

[link]
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Bill Densmore
CircLabs / RJI
617-448-6600
Wpdensm...@gmail.com