Stewards

Hi, all.

Our next Stewards call is Thursday, March 19.
Pacific, 9 a.m.
Mountain, 10 a.m.
Central, 11 a.m.
Eastern, noon
Phone number: 641-715-3200
Access code: 132888

Possible agenda items (suggestions encouraged):
* Poynter follow-up
* Web site
* Possible future events, need to consider both themes and sites

Summary about events from last call:
- Communities losing papers, etc. – Newsout
- Investigative journalism
- Regional in general and
- Seattle – still being looked at
- Baltimore – young activists

Food for thought from Maurreen:
* Canada to grow more internationally
* Piggyback with another event.
* More participant variety – Maybe with focus, such as:
- broadcasting
- business & economy
- education
- environment
- ethnic
- government
- regional
- medicine
- nonprofits
- public safety and courts
- community solutions
- underserved
- visual
- youth

Steve Hanson

Steven Silha

Michelle Ferrier

Brief discussion about the cold, the hacking of SoapBlox, etc. while waiting for people to show up.

Michelle discusses things happening in Florida and the difficulty of producing blogs to fill the gap left by newspaper bankruptcy.  Content production, legal issues, technical requirements as part of the difficulty, people who refuse to use digital media. This ties into the discussion on what is needed to support local journalism efforts.

Bill thinks that a print component is essential -

How can new media operate when the model for journalism in that world requires a huge commitment of time, and very little commitment of money.

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