Comments on: Politico parent’s new local news site prepares for launch with audience and conversation at the forefront

By: My blogging themes for 2010: job change, Twitter, business models … « The Buttry Diary

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:51:36 +0000

[...] mentions and links by Gerri Berendzen, Amy Gahran, Gina Chen, Bryan Cubbison, Rachel Kaufman, Laura McGann, Josh Stearns, Denise Graveline, Joy Mayer, Christian Burkin, Tyler Dukes, Craig Silverman, Mark [...]

By: Hyper-Local News Site TBD Launches to Much Fanfare

Hyper-Local News Site TBD Launches to Much Fanfare — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:16:43 +0000

[...] in place before the website even launched, and before it had filled out its roster of reporters, the Nieman Lab notes. TBD also launched with an Android app, and its iPhone app is waiting for approval by Apple, [...]

By: 4 Questions for TBD « Leap Media Partners

4 Questions for TBD « Leap Media Partners — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:24:51 +0000

[...] unveiling, you know that the site will rely heavily on aggregation, geolocation and community engagement, through social media and outreach to local bloggers. But Friday’s talk provided further [...]

By: Six reasons to watch local news project TBD’s launch next week » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:21:15 +0000

[...] editorial team. This spring I noted that their director of social media, Steve Buttry, would have a seven-person engagement team in place before reporters had even been [...]

By: interesting

interesting — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:06:27 +0000

Politico works in traditional spaces and uses standard approaches. I don’t see its success as easily translating but it does speak to the capabilities of its management. But local? It’s different. The rules and motivations of local bloggers don’t map to anything.

There’s a lot of energy in DC’s blogging community, and for organizations, like TDB apparently, to believe they can harness some of it all I can say is good luck to that.

But money can accomplish a lot and an ad network that actually provides a fair return for the effort might may well help some bloggers. But no system helps or wants to help everyone. For many people, corporate is corporate and many local bloggers are indifferent to Leviathans.

By: JTech Weekly » Blog Archive » Episode #2 – ProPublica’s Pulitzer, AppStore Rules, Anonymity, and Gizmodo

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:38:00 +0000

[...] Nieman Journalism Lab: Politico parent’s new local news site prepares for launch with audience and… [...]

By: CollegeJourn Talks Mobile [Chats] | Building the J-Future

CollegeJourn Talks Mobile [Chats] | Building the J-Future — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:45:47 +0000

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By: Jim Long

Jim Long — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:37:20 +0000

Jim Brady is a smart guy and it appears he has put together an equally strong team. This could be an actual game changer in terms of local media. Wonder how other locals will respond.

By: Steve Buttry

Steve Buttry — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:58:30 +0000

As promised, I have nearly finished hiring the team. We have six people (including me) in place, with one to go. http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/loryn-wilson-joins-us-as-a-community-host/

And the name should be coming soon.

By: Loryn Wilson joins us as a community host « Pursuing the Complete Community Connection

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:39:29 +0000

[...] cringed when Laura McGann of the Nieman Journalism Lab quoted me Wednesday as saying that I’d have five of my community engagement jobs filled by [...]

By: Lost Remote | Allbritton’s local site in D.C. prepares to launch

Lost Remote | Allbritton’s local site in D.C. prepares to launch — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:52:22 +0000

[...] but they’re hiring like crazy with a launch date of “June-ish.” Nieman Lab has a few details of their first hires, which will include a team of four “community hosts” who will be [...]

By: Mandy Jenkins joins us as social media producer « Pursuing the Complete Community Connection

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:35:01 +0000

[...] staff announcements should be coming soon. The Nieman Journalism Lab reported my desire to finish most of my hiring this week, and I hope to make that report true. But [...]

By: Jeff Sonderman

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:26:53 +0000

Thanks for the post, Laura. Love the illustration too.