I'm sitting in the National Burger King Franchisees room at the University of Miami Business School, where the We Media Nonprofit Journalism panel is getting started, facilitated by John Bracken.
3 types of nonprofits that do journalism:
1) Groups that do journalism per se (NPR, CPI).
2) Advocacy organizations (Human Rights Watch, World Votes, Brave New Films)
3) Citizen, participatory media
Ellen from the Sunlight Foundation's opening remarks: "It's remarkable, both the diversity and the success of what's happening."
Sunlight projects:
Minnpost.com is a site for laid off journalists.
Someone asked about the how the Wikileaks situation affects her work. Ellen says that she has human curators vetting the material before it is published.
John Sawyer, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is talking about Pulitzer's response to media consolidation and the shrinkage in the professional journalists pool, as well as the decline of readership.
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"To be sure, [society] cannot exist except through the individuals who serve as its substratum; it is, however, something more than a collection of individuals. A whole is not identical to the sum of its parts, even though without them it would be nothing. In the same way, by coming together in a definite structure..., men [sic] form a new entity which has its own nature and its own laws." -Emile Durkheim, A Course in Sociology
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Why do wars and revolutions happen? We do not know. We know only that to produce the one or the other men [sic] form themselves into a certain combination in which all take part; and we say that this is the nature of men [sic], that this is the law" -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"A phase transition is a sudden, global change in behaviour arising from the interactions of many constituent particles" -Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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About Me
- Nathaniel James
- Washington, DC, United States
- In my professional life, I'm the Campaign Coordinator at the Media and Democracy Coalition. Beyond my commitment to advancing the values of justice and democracy in the media sphere through policy change and advancing community media, I have an intense interest in the social structure and process of intra and inter-organizational collaboration; social networks and social network analysis; network theory; complex systems; and emergent phenomenon. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect the positions of any organizational entity.