Hello West Virginia University

This is one of 134,134,653,324 ideas• We can experiment with networked

reporting, new editorial structures, storytelling tools, p data base journalism and more.

Why Experiment?

• Rule of the Internet: Cheaper/Easier to try than to debate about trying.

• Stems from “Agile and Iterative” Fail early, fail often - try again.

Community Funded Reporting

• The act of distributing the cost of reporting across many different people.

Required

• Transparency and participation in the process of journalism.

Collaboration• Content is King and is the most important.

• Collaboration is Queen and is the most powerful

What does it look like?

The Theory of Donating• People donate to NPR all the time. What’s the big deal?

Throwing money over a wall

vs......

Transparency and Control

Community-focused sponsorships

The water is fine

What YOU can do.

• Get involved.

• Journalism is not passive.

• Start small

You can steal this idea!

THE GOOD NEWS

Lisa Williams

LET’S STAY POSITIVE!!!!!

“Journalism will survive the death of its institutions.”

J-Schools + Students Have New Obligations

Experiment!!!!!!• There’s a million things we can try.

• We can experiment with networked reporting, new editorial structures, storytelling tools, participatory journalism and partnerships between professional and amateurs.

(go crazy and have fun with it)

Here Comes Everybody

• Figuring out success on the web is like predicting the weather. It’s not an exact science - but we are getting better all the time.

• Journalism will only succeed on the shoulders of its failures. (May a thousand flowers bloom).

• The law of numbers says we will figure this out.

The Web Isn’t Going Away• Story time....... How does a four-year-old

interact with the world?

Thank You!!!

• www.spot.us

• www.digidave.org

• ROCK ON!!!!!!