Open Park: a model for collaborative online news production
The Open Park project looks to define an 'ideal' or at least improved model and practice for online collaborative news-reporting and -writing.
As newsrooms across the country and beyond are grappling with the new economic realities of reduced budgets and news media professionals are busy drafting and testing plans for new models of news production and distribution, the little-explored practice of 'Don't compete, collaborate!' is well worth considering.
Collaboration and the sharing of skills and resources have already proved in other professional spheres that it is a winning formula--one especially well adapted to these economically demanding times. It is thus only logical to explore what this new practice could do for the future of journalism.
At what stage of development is it?
Currently being developed, with field-testing due to start in the fall '09 semester with journalism students. Further development of online collaborative news-reporting tools for OP users, selection of candidates [journalism schools] for testing OP, building of journalism students' teams, development of four case studies for them to cover.
Related Tools & Resources:
Ellen Hume on the Future of JournalismProject team:
Florence GallezProject team:
Nadav AharonyFor more information about using this tool, contact:
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I've been flirting with the idea of a dot news domain registrar as a way of validating journalists who meet certain standards of quality with their news content. I very much look forward to the Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism that your project produces, and wholeheartedly agree that a collaborative model is desperately needed in the otherwise-anarchic journalism craft.
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I've been flirting with the idea of a dot news domain registrar as a way of validating journalists who meet certain standards of quality with their news content. I very much look forward to the Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism that your project produces, and wholeheartedly agree that a collaborative model is desperately needed in the otherwise-anarchic journalism craft.
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I've been flirting with the idea of a dot news domain registrar as a way of validating journalists who meet certain standards of quality with their news content. I very much look forward to the Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism that your project produces, and wholeheartedly agree that a collaborative model is desperately needed in the otherwise-anarchic journalism craft.
Heroes of Newerth
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