December 17, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
In my ongoing quest to help find ways to assist local newsrooms in saving money and continuing good journalism, I’m trying to take full advantage of my time as a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow. So far I was able to complete a major collaborative effort between four newsrooms on election night and three newsrooms leading [...]
November 12, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
The end of the 2008 election season wrapped up a piece of my online obsession – SmartDecision08.com. Along with helping keep that site running with content from KOMU.com, KBIA.org and the ColumbiaMissourian.com I also decided to turn the partnership up a notch and produce a multi-newsroom webcast. We ended up also including a new internationally-focused [...]
April 7, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
We officially launched smartdecision08.com last week and I’ve found my audience is not quick to sign up. I have teams of people trying to go out into our communities and encourage participation — And I’ve found when local organizations are introduced to the idea of blogging or video blogging, they are not interested. I wonder [...]
January 8, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m working on a collaborative project where I’m hoping we’ll have multiple sources for video, audio and images. The Splashcast player seems to be our best bet. Here’s what I’ve worked on so far:
Add Smart Decision Coverage to your page
October 25, 2007
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m working towards a massive project. I’m trying to find a way to collaborate with three different newsrooms (one NPR station, one local paper and my NBC affiliate station). I’d like to give my market the most thorough election site possible for November 2008. Content from all three would feed into the website [...]
