Submitted by montgomeryl on Wed, 03\/04\/2009 – 6:07amin<\/p>\n
Session Convenor:<\/strong> Mark Briggs, Serra Media LLC<\/p>\n Session Reporter:<\/strong> Leigh Montgomery<\/p>\n Discussion Participants: <\/strong> Attendees: Barbara Iverson, Columbia College Chicago; Karen Duffy, the Daytona Beach News-Journal; Barbara Kantrowits, Hechinger Institute on Education & the Media, Columbia University; Tom Stites, Banyan project; Anne Anderson Freelance writer; John Hamer, WA News Council, Jeremy Iggers, TCDailyplant.com, Jay Young, Jenn Hemmigsen, Ronnie Lovler, Tracey Durkin, Sara Justicia, Leslie Fishburn Clark, Hannah Miller and Leigh Montgomery, The Christian Science Monitor<\/p>\n Independent startup journalism introduced by Mark Briggs, of Serra Media LLC that has a startup: Newsgarden, that has at a few newspaper clients.\u00a0 The app allows mapping of news stories as well as microtargeted advertising:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.serramedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n Mark spoke about examples of startups with VC funding<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.gigaom.com<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.politico.com<\/a><\/p>\n These have become national players due to the significant investment of funding, planning & staff. \u00a0 Techcrunch has actually changed the way high tech sector is reported; MSM now liveblogging at industry events, where high tech leaders are speaking etc.<\/p>\n Others:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.barista.net<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.pegasusnews.com<\/a> – has been bought & sold<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org<\/a><\/p>\n Mark also gave examples of startups by former newspaper journalists, include<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.myballard.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Husband and wife reporting team that covers their Seattle neighborhood of Ballard<\/p>\n As well as another reporting team:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.westseattle.com<\/a><\/p>\n Jeremy Iggers was attending this session, from\u00a0http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n This features original reporting by city journalists, others to feature what is happening, best of the neighborhoods, community press, ethnic press, workday Minneapolis.\u00a0 They also train potential journalists.\u00a0 This had startup funds of $12K.<\/p>\n There is another news site called Minnpost run by Joel Kramer.\u00a0 This is staffed by former Minneapolis Star Tribune journalists.\u00a0 Kramer does not believe in ‘citizen journalism’ and is doing\u00a0 ‘old style journalism.’<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.minnpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n The group spoke about eventually syndicating this content, making it available to aggregators etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Submitted by montgomeryl on Wed, 03\/04\/2009 – 6:07amin Session Convenor: Mark Briggs, Serra Media LLC Session Reporter: Leigh Montgomery Discussion Participants: Attendees: Barbara Iverson, Columbia College Chicago; Karen Duffy, the Daytona Beach News-Journal; Barbara Kantrowits, Hechinger Institute on Education & … Continue reading