Our Kathy Price-Robinson was part of the team that put together this video for New Orleans singer/songwriter Alexis Marceaux. A little music always lightens the soul ....
Saul Daniels and his own little Patch of Chatsworth
Our Saul Daniels has joined the growing Patch network of hyperlocal news sites, and is now editing the site for Chatsworth, a suburban district within Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley.
The pairing seems a naturalfit. Daniels was a longtime editor at the Los Angeles Times and other papers, and in recent months has been active writing and editing the Chatsworth Roundup.
The Patch network, owned by AOL, is trying to build hyoer local news sites in markets around the country. Other former LA Times staffers have signed on with the project, also.
TJS, and the Knight News Challenge
Co-op co-founder Brett Levy learned this week that a proposal he submitted to the Knight News Challenge cleared the first round of vetting, and he's been invited to submit a full proposal. It's a closed proposal, so we can't go into details, but the overview is that he wants to create an open-source editing system for community journalism sites, which could make it cheaper for such startups and put some underemployed editors to work.
It's a great idea and could do some good good for an industry that, as we all know so painfully, is having massive troubles. So think good thoughts.
The current Knight News Challenge, incidentally, "is the fourth year of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations and information distribution and visualization."
Money well spent, to our minds.
