Report of Journalism That Matters Breakout session
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==Session: Locating and Financing the Next Newsroom (with Chris Peck)==
Finding a place where there is viable underserved overlap between between successful legacy media (circle left) and new media/citizen media which shows signs of sustainability (circle right)
This 2 p.m. breakout session hosted by Chris Peck, editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, includes an active discussion of potential locations for The Next Newsroom Prototype launch, including consideration of demographics, financing and ownership.
Among participants were Vikki Porter of the University of Southern California, Bob Giles of the Nieman Foundation, Jim Shaffer of the Univ. of Southern Maine, Russ Okamoto of PublicPress.org, George Huges of Paulding.com, Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project and others.
Reporter’s notes from this session are pending. However, streaming audio of the session is available from: http://newshare.typepad.com/jtm2007