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bxb2010: Session on community engagement
I’ve been in Chicago today for Block by Block, an RJI event that brought together community news practitioners. A blog for the gathering will over the next day or two reflect the rich conversations...
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What I heard about community news at Block by Block
Last week’s gathering of community news folks, the Block by Block summit in Chicago, left me both psyched about the opportunities I have to make a contribution to the evolution of journalism and...
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Thanks for stopping by … it’s a bit dead around here
If you stumble across this page, allow me to welcome you! For the 2010-2011 year, while I’m a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, this blog is primarily serving as a spot to double post what...
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What “engagement” means to Zach Seward at the Wall Street Journal
Zach Seward is the outreach editor at the Wall Street Journal. When you’re at an organization as large as the Journal, your relationship with your audience is going to necessarily look quite different...
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Data! About conversational journalism!
One of the struggles in talking about relationships between journalists and their audiences is that we too often stay philosophical and talk from our gut. This morning at South by Southwest, Doreen...
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Inside the engagement experiments at the Register-Citizen
Click to view slideshow.For almost a year now, I’ve been reading and learning about a little newsroom in Connecticut making extreme moves (literally and figuratively) on the engagement front. This...
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A published report: Measuring the success of audience engagement efforts
I had the privilege of hosting, along with the awesome Reuben Stern, a workshop at RJI last month on measuring engagement. My motivation for the event was really justifying engagement. We can’t value...
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A journalistic obligation: to identify and attempt to engage the audience
I was honored to be asked to write for the Nieman Reports summer 2011 issue, which is all about community and is jam packed with awesome resources. Here’s the post I contributed: Of the many challenges...
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Three kinds of engagement: outreach, conversation, collaboration
As part of my RJI fellowship, I conducted dozens of interviews with journalists and non-journalists about how a more social culture is changing the relationships between institutions and the people...
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Let’s have practical conversations, in real newsrooms, about focusing on the...
In my community engagement work, I’ve felt too often that I’ve reached only people who have already drunk the engagement kool-aid. I mean, who’s going to seek out research on audience unless they...
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