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Birmingham wasn’t – and still isn’t – a city of loft living and canalside bars, yet

“organisations” only seemed comfortable with that little bit of it. To cover the bits of Brum that real people recognise and care

about is still the main thrust of the site. - Jon Bounds

Birmingham wasn’t – and still isn’t – a city of loft living and canalside bars, yet “organisations”only seemed comfortable with that little bit of it. To cover the bits of Brum that real people recogniseand care about is still the main thrust of the site. - Jon Bounds

Putting the story up on top

Excavating the story of a place

Instead of traveling farther,

traveling deeper

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• We have a group of commenters, equivalent to a small motorcycle gang, which proudly calls itself the “eight trolls” and likes to snarl at soft-hearted liberals. -- Debbie Galant, Baristanet

“We Refer to it as your local daily Newspaper Meets The Daily Show.”

-- Debbie Galant, Baristanet

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• So much different from all my years in citywide/regional news, when we managers/producers would sit in a room and often wind up having to send someone off to whatever the most shocking crime du jour in the region happened to be, parachute in, parachute out, on to the next Big Story. -- Tracy Record, West Seattle Blog

So much different from all my years in citywide/regional news, when we managers/producers would sit in a room and often wind up having to send someone off to whatever the most shocking crime du jour in the region happened to be, parachute in, parachute out, on to the next Big Story.

Tracy Record,

West Seattle Blog

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Ushahidi

• “The idea was to at the very least capture the stories and offer witnesses a place to tell their stories. That is where the name Ushahidi comes from, it's Swahili and it means testimony." Ory Okolloh

“The idea was to at the very least capture the stories and offer witnesses a place to tell their stories. That is where the name Ushahidicomes from, it's Swahili and it means testimony."

Ory Okolloh

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When we started looking in 2006,

1 in 8Americans lived in a city or town served by

an independent, grassroots local news site

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Now it’s 1 in 2.

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We track 7,000+

online, local grassroots

news sites

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Local has become a laboratory for the future of journalism

and that future is about startups

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But wait, I don’t want to be part of a startup

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Journalism will survive the death of its institutions

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Why that’s important

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Our problems are distributed and global

Our media are consolidated and local

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Penguins

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Turn stories into signals

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Veterans battlefield injuries

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Apple’s stock price

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What that’s like for journalists

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Shorter job tenuresProjects, not companies

Careers aren’t hierarchical anymore

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How to tell the good startup ideas from the bad ones

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Don’t do anything for free that you wouldn’t do for free indefinitely.

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WHAT CAN I DO

WITHOUT ANYONE’S

ASSISTANCE OR PERMISSION?

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Everything about something

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Thanks!Lisa on LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/in/lisawilliamsLisa on Twitter: @lisawilliams

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Why that’s important

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Our problems are distributed and global

Our media are consolidated and local

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Penguins

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Turn stories into signals

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Veterans battlefield injuries

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Apple’s stock price

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Thanks!Lisa on LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/in/lisawilliamsLisa on Twitter: @lisawilliams