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- CopyCamp is postponedApril 17
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For various logistical reasons, we have decided to postpone the CopyCamp we had planned for this coming Saturday, April 19th. We apologize to those of you who had made plans to join us. However, we intend to re-schedule the event for some time in May on a date we’ll announce shortly. So please stay tuned and we’ll be back in touch.
Please pass this along to anyone you think may have been planning to attend.
- Join us for CopyCamp on April 19thMarch 26
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We’d like to announce our first CopyCamp scheduled for April 19th at the San Jose Mercury News. We’ll be gathering folks from our newsroom and the community to discuss our coverage of race and demographis. I’m pasting the invitation below. You can RSVP at our conference wiki. Or can email me.
San Jose CopyCamp
Saturday, April 19, 2008
750 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, California 95190
The San Jose Mercury News invites you to the first ever Copycamp at their Newsroom on April 19th, 2008 at 9 a.m.RSVP at our wiki: http://copycamp.pbwiki.com/San+Jose+Mercury+News
CopyCamp is a one day un-conference that brings community members into the newsroom to meet and discuss important issues with local journalists. After an initial meet and greet, reporters from the San Jose Mercury News and active members of the San Jose community will suggest topics they believe will benefit through an open dialogue in the hopes of improving the quality of journalism in the Bay Area and figuring out how the SJMN can better cover und
- Ha ha! Your medium is dying…March 19
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Even Nelson is piling on…
- Has it really changed so little?March 18
- MediaNews’ BANG-East Bay launches NewPaper ProjectMarch 13
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Kevin Keane of the Bay Area News Group - East Bay, sent a memo to his staff announcing the start of the NewPaper Project. It’s a comprehensive look at everything those papers do in terms of news gathering, storytelling, and the business:
Keane writes:
“We’re calling it NewPaper, but we’ll focus on every facet of newsgathering, both in print and online. No examination of the news business in 2008 would be complete if it failed to look at the impact changing reader habits and new technologies were having on our ability to deliver the news. Content needs to be provided when people want it and in formats they find useful and convenient, and our newsrooms need to adjust to these challenging reader demands.”
“…I will ask you to challenge your assumptions on what readers expect of us and how to best use our time. You should consider the NewPaper Project a unique opportunity to re-examine everything, from what we find front-page worthy to how our news pages are designed and presented. Ask yourself how you would put together a locally focused news operation of our breadth and size if you were to start one from scratch.
For the sake of the NewPaper discussion, we must assume that the business model of newspapers has been permanently altered, and that we will never be able to support a fulltime news operation larger than what we have now.”