Rex (who, for the record, is one helluva cool guy), is someone who really gets it when it comes to online journalism. Lots of good stuff in this interview, but I was especially liking this part:
Looking at the online media landscape right now, I see one sector that no one has really figured out: local. There are good publications around every single vertical market imaginable, but there are only a handful of good local blogs. If you follow this industry, you’ve read about some of the attempts at local citizen journalism. American Journalism Review recently had a story about the failure of the more prominent citizen journalism sites. But all of those failures have one common characteristic: they were started by former Big J newspaper people.
Good stuff.
001 // Brian Ford // 06.22.2007 // 4:41 PM
You’re not on Newvine “that” often — but have you noticed that they now include a “local” tab?
It’s pretty nifty.
002 // Jeff Croft // 06.23.2007 // 12:05 PM
Yeah, I have seen that. Definitely pretty nice. Right now, it doesn’t cover Lawrence, though. It covers KC, but I prefer my local news to be really local. I suspect I’ll make a lot more use of Newsvine once I move to Seattle.