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Seeking Sustainability: Presentation on engagement and community-building from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
This spring, the Knight Foundation hosted a roundtable discussion exploring a crucial issue in journalism: the sustainability of nonprofit news organizations. This week, we’re passing along some videos of the conversations that resulted (and, as always, we’d love to continue the discussion in the comments section). We posted Part 1 of the series, a talk focused on business-model viability over time, on Monday, and Part 2 — on revenue-generation — yesterday.
In today’s pair of videos, Scott Lewis, CEO of Voice of San Diego, leads a discussion on the crucial topic of community engagement: how to leverage limited resources to build community, how to develop meaningful comments boards and conversations, how to use new technologies to develop audience affection, how to translate loyalty into money — and how to measure the murky issue of “audience engagement” in the first place. Scott’s introduction is above; the video below features a conversation among Knight’s panel of heavy-hitters.
Among them, in general order of appearance: the Center for Investigative Reporting‘s Robert Rosenthal, Texas Tribune‘s Evan Smith and Higinio Maycotte, The Bay Citizen‘s Lisa Frazier, the St. Louis Beacon‘s Nicole Hollway and Margaret Wolf Freivogel, the Chicago News Cooperative‘s Peter Osnos, Voice of San Diego‘s Buzz Woolley and Andrew Donohue, the New Haven Independent‘s Paul Bass, the Gotham Gazette‘s Gail Robinson, the FCC‘s (and formerly Beliefnet‘s) Steven Waldman, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund‘s
Seeking Sustainability: Discussion on engagement and community-building session from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
