[...] But across the pond, Poynter's Amy Gahran is one of several bloggers to examine how community newspapers can use citizen journalism to stay afloat. Notes Gahran: "Community papers tend to be slower to embrace online media than metro dailies, especially since they have considerably less financial and technical resources for new initiatives." Citizen media/networked journalism proponent Jarvis joins Gahran in pointing to Douglas Fisher's "cookbook" for citizen journalists and local media hubs alike, a 75-page report based on, (Gahran:) "the first year of a South Carolina citizen journalism project, Hartsville Today. This community-driven news site received a New Voices grant from J-Lab in 2005." [...]
[...] But across the pond, Poynter's Amy Gahran is one of several bloggers to examine how community newspapers can use citizen journalism to stay afloat. Notes Gahran: "Community papers tend to be slower to embrace online media than metro dailies, especially since they have considerably less financial and technical resources for new initiatives." Citizen media/networked journalism proponent Jarvis joins Gahran in pointing to Douglas Fisher's "cookbook" for citizen journalists and local media hubs alike, a 75-page report based on, (Gahran:) "the first year of a South Carolina citizen journalism project, Hartsville Today. This community-driven news site received a New Voices grant from J-Lab in 2005." [...]
You might also find interesting perhaps what could be described as the “anti-cookbook” for local sites where I wrote about a post “Sidewalk: Insider’s view of why & how it was killed (aka sold) and why Steve Ballmer now regrets it”
http://marketvelocity.blogspot.com/2007/02/sidewalk-insiders-view-of-why-how-it.html