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Hanson Hosein - http://www.hrhmedia.com/page3/page11/page11.html
Hanson Hosein - http://www.hrhmedia.com/page3/page11/page11.html
-Canadian reporter who left producer job at NBC for entry-level SOJO position in rural Canada. He now teaches multimedia reporting at the University of Washington. We can look at Hosein himself or CBC program as case study.
-Canadian reporter who left producer job at NBC for entry-level SOJO position in rural Canada. He now teaches multimedia reporting at the University of Washington. We can look at Hosein himself or CBC program as case study.
=====[http://www.silobreaker.com Silobreaker]=====
Silobreaker bills itself as “more than a news aggregator”  and, well, it is and it isn’t. Silobreaker does aggregate  news stories – from approximately 10,000 news blog and multimedia sources-  but it also has powerful search and visualization features.
Registered users (registration is free) gain access to four types of searches – 360, network, hotspots, and trends. 
For example, I did a 360 search for Maxime Bernier, the Canadian foreign minister who resigned last week after his scorned ex-girlfriend, Julie Couillard,  returned secret documents he had left at her apartment. I was presented with a fact sheet on Bernier, a YouTube video of Couillard’s television interview, top stories featuring Bernier, and an extensive list of other stories and blogs. Impressively, the sources were both national and foreign, mainstream and obscure.
A network search for Bernier presented me with an interactive nodal graph linking Bernier to other relevant people, places and organizations in the news; for example, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ottawa, and the Hells Angels bike gang (to which Couillard had once been connected).
Similarly, a hotspots search brought up a map marked with places mentioned in various stories concerning Bernier. Clicking on the hotspot brought me to the relevant story.
Finally, a trends search graphed media attention on Bernier, Couillard and Harper over a given time.
While it certainly doesn’t fall under the rubric of citizen reporting, Silobreaker can be seen as an example of individualized and editor/gatekeeper-free news consumption.
The company is a joint venture between Infosphere AB, a Swedish commercial intelligence and knowledge strategy consultancy, and Elucidon, a U.K.-based holding company for companies providing intelligent search and analytics technology. It is privately funded but [http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40852 will soon introduce ads].

Revision as of 16:44, 9 June 2008

Pegasus News

editorial structure -- produces original news -- DFW area -- local -- some UGC -- some from Topix

Local news for the Dallas / Fort Worth area. Produces original content from an editorial structure covering different fields -- managing, neighborhood, film, theater, photography/design, research, more. Pulls content with permission from 59 local "content partners". Registered users can add stories, events, photos, band profiles, lost pet notices, garage sale info. Users' ability to add stories is not particularly highlighted, especially in contrast to some other participatory sites. Users can comment on stories. Some news comes from Topix.

"Hyperlocal": Box on top of page where registered users who enter their addresses receive "headlines and events in a tight radius around your home."

Registered users can also customize their home pages based upon their reading habits -- good example of relinquishing editorial control.

Some advertising is local. For example, the lost pet section has a banner for Adopt A Dallas Pet. Some, oddly, is of the "save on your RX" variety.

A feature called the "Daily You" presents news that is geographically relevant across generic site sections ("business," "sports" ...)

Bought by Fisher Communicatons in 2008.


Classic examples: Slate and Salon. Huffington Post is more recent. (from pages 6-7 of A Typology for Media Organizations)

Village Soup

Local news. A "portal to community goods and services." Content is divided by design into news from affiliated local newspapers, news from local businesses & organizations, and user-submitted stories and blogs. Members can post comments on all sections of the site, including "bizBriefs" and "bizOffers", which are posted by local businesses on subjects like the day's dinner specials.

8000 unique visitors a day. http://www.villagesoup.com/about/


Solo Journalists (SOJOs)

Kevin Sites - http://www.kevinsites.com -well-known SOJO for Yahoo! News

Vagabond Reporters International - http://vagabondreporters.com -young freelance foreign reporters operating mostly out of Burma. One of the co-founders had story run on front page of WAPO after cyclone last month. -Can also be categorized as an agency??

Hanson Hosein - http://www.hrhmedia.com/page3/page11/page11.html -Canadian reporter who left producer job at NBC for entry-level SOJO position in rural Canada. He now teaches multimedia reporting at the University of Washington. We can look at Hosein himself or CBC program as case study.

Silobreaker

Silobreaker bills itself as “more than a news aggregator” and, well, it is and it isn’t. Silobreaker does aggregate news stories – from approximately 10,000 news blog and multimedia sources- but it also has powerful search and visualization features.

Registered users (registration is free) gain access to four types of searches – 360, network, hotspots, and trends. For example, I did a 360 search for Maxime Bernier, the Canadian foreign minister who resigned last week after his scorned ex-girlfriend, Julie Couillard, returned secret documents he had left at her apartment. I was presented with a fact sheet on Bernier, a YouTube video of Couillard’s television interview, top stories featuring Bernier, and an extensive list of other stories and blogs. Impressively, the sources were both national and foreign, mainstream and obscure.

A network search for Bernier presented me with an interactive nodal graph linking Bernier to other relevant people, places and organizations in the news; for example, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ottawa, and the Hells Angels bike gang (to which Couillard had once been connected).

Similarly, a hotspots search brought up a map marked with places mentioned in various stories concerning Bernier. Clicking on the hotspot brought me to the relevant story.

Finally, a trends search graphed media attention on Bernier, Couillard and Harper over a given time.

While it certainly doesn’t fall under the rubric of citizen reporting, Silobreaker can be seen as an example of individualized and editor/gatekeeper-free news consumption.

The company is a joint venture between Infosphere AB, a Swedish commercial intelligence and knowledge strategy consultancy, and Elucidon, a U.K.-based holding company for companies providing intelligent search and analytics technology. It is privately funded but will soon introduce ads.