Online Journalism Review has found new funding and rises from the dead! The topic areas that Geneva Overholser proposes are right on target:
“1. Reporting and writing in a conversational environment. How can, and should, we report the news when publications are now a two-way conversation, instead of a single-direction monologue?
2. Investigative reporting in the Internet era. How can news organizations, and individual journalists, harness the power of modern computing and networking (including crowdsourcing) to investigate public data?
3. Entrepreneurial journalism. The old business model for news is broken. How do we prepare journalists to develop new ones?
4. “Guerilla-marketing” the news. This builds from topics 1 and 3, and addresses how journalists ought to be thinking about making their content “viral,” optimizing for search engines and using promotional techniques to draw audience to their content, at minimal financial expense.”
