Zagreb

These links accompany a Nov. 21, 2009 presentation by Bill Densmore of the Reynolds Journalism Institute, Prof. Norman Sims of the Media Giraffe Project and Martin Langeveld, of CircLabs Inc. to participants in a regional conference on southeastern Europe media hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia on Nov. 19-21, 2009.

For-profit hyperlocal

• Village Soup Commons MGP profile
• BaristaNet MGP profile
• West Seattle Blog Home Page
• Paulding.Com MGP background

Nonprofit hyperlocal

• MinnPost MGP Profile
• Voice San Diego MGP profile
• St. Louis Beacon MGP profile
• New Haven Independent MGP profile
• The Tyee MGP profile
• The Texas Tribune Home Page

Watchdog journalism -- non-profit

• Center for Public Integrity MGP profile
• Pro Publica home page
• Center for Investigative Reporting home page
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting homepage
• TruthOut.org home page

Watchdog journalism -- for-profit

• Huffington Post MGP profile
• Huffington Post home page

Recent studies/research

• Downie report CJR
• Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities

Case study of new news ecosystem: Williamstown, Mass. (USA, population 8,000)

• The Williamstown Mass. (USA) official town website
• Independent aggregation site/Williamstown
• Quasi-professional news site for Williamstown region
• Legacy daily site / Williamstown/North Adams

Addressing the "demand" problem -- news literacy

MIT news literacy conference home page The Stony Brook news-literacy curriculum

VIDEO: Online entrepreneurs talk about "the passion of place"

• VIDEO: Passion for Place

Research projects

• CircLabs Inc.
• The Information Valet Project
• The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute / Missouri School of Journalism

The demand side -- this generation cares

• FOUR-MINUTE VIDEO: Ventura Technology High School
• Rebooting the News conference
• Consensus statement