Local Journalism - Grassroots Journalism Sharing

River Country Journal now online

Bruce — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:45:14 -0700

Greetings from Three Rivers, Michigan!

I'm pleased to report that my new venture with "grassroots journalism" is now online. I began populating the River Country Journal on April 25th and have been adding content daily since then. If you'd like to "check in out," go to www.rivercountryjournal.com.

Legal Guide for online journalism

Bruce — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:45:58 -0800

I just ran across information about a resource that may be helpful to all of us interested in "grassroots online journalism." It's a Legal Guide from The Berkman Center at Harvard Law School's "Citizen Media Law Project" (CMLP). Here's some descriptive information about it:

Another helpful resource

Bruce — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:26:57 -0800

Hello, again, from Michigan!

Just a quick note regarding another helpful resource I discovered recently. It's the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It's free and the website provides a good deal of helpful and pertinent information about online journalism. I registered several months ago and have been receiving regular e-mail newsletters about the website. If you'd like to check it out, go to www.ojr.org.

Anyone with comments or experience with Squarespace?

Bruce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:10:38 -0800

Hello, again, from Michigan!

31 Days -- Struggling Forward

Dave Bullard — Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:37:49 -0800

First, sorry it's been so long since I've been on the site. Best of intentions; worst of execution. I just started a part-time job and my wife is battling a health issue that consumes a lot of my extra time.

Here's where we are, two months into a fully redesigned website:

Readership is solid. Format changes often bring reader disruption. Not this time. Numbers stayed steady. We do between 12 and 17,000 visits a day between the two main publictions, fultondailynews.com and oswegodailynews.com.

Website that may prove helpful

Bruce — Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:55:33 -0700

Greetings from Michigan!

I ran across a website today that looks like it could prove quite helpful to those of us involved -- or about to be involved -- in small, local journalism business enterprises. Here's the website address: www.workingsolo.com. See what you think.

Best wishes!

Bruce Snook

Questions for Global Vue

kpaul.mallasch — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:33:45 -0700

Global Vue questions:

Do you measure and track who visits your site? Can you tell how people are finding the site? How? Are your visitors mostly local or do you have repeat visitors from far away? Does Google bring you many visitors? Technorati? Facebook? How many people visit the site weekly?

Are you nonprofit or for-profit? Where does most of your revenue come from (if you feel comfortable sharing)?

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How it went

Dave Bullard — Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:13:53 -0700

So the first live webcast is in the books. I give it an 85.
>> We started late, with just two minutes to go in the first half. We had a "technical issue". A replacement cable was missing and was sitting 15 miles away in the office. So we fired it up as fast as we could and got on...well....not cleanly, but we got on.

Anyone in Google News?

kpaul.mallasch — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:22:04 -0700

Any other independent grassroots journalism websites out there gotten into Google News?
I don't have the link handy, but last I looked they were accepting applications. It's a good way to get your website seen by people who use Google News to scan a whole pile of newspapers (er, websites) at a time.
Maybe a how-to on the submission process is in order? If there's interest, I could write something up.

Live sports update

Dave Bullard — Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:56:50 -0700

A quick update on the live sports broadcast project:
The game's two days away -- a routine game, nothing special. We've already gotten three sponsors for the game without putting a ton of effort into it.