Photos: The first day of BxB 2012
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View ArticleBlockbyBlock 2012 kicks off: Publishers discuss the art of the business pivot
Rusty Coats, principal of Coats2Coats, kicked off the opening panel of the 2012 BlockbyBlock Community News Summit challenging local indie online news publishers to honestly answer three questions:...
View ArticleKnight Lab Year Two: Progress, use cases and feedback
by Denise Cheng, MIT Center for Civic Media Rich Gordon and his Northwestern colleagues have had a presence at Block by Block for all three years, and under the banner of Knight News Innovation Lab for...
View ArticleThe future of Block by Block
With the Block by Block summit behind us, I want to share next steps and activities for the Block by Block network. I am excited to report that the BxB network will continue to serve independent...
View ArticleSite criteria, lessons learned, LION discussed in BxB12 closing session
In a wide ranging conversation Jay Rosen, journalism professor from New York University, and Michele Mclellan, founder of the BlockbyBlock Community News Summit, discussed the summit’s...
View ArticleBxB publishers united in reporting FOR vs ABOUT their communities
The secret sauce for effective local indie online news easily boils down to choosing between two words: FOR vs. ABOUT. “Reporters elsewhere write ABOUT our communities. We write FOR our communities,”...
View ArticleEleanor Cippel’s tough love on sales for community news publishers at BxB12
At BlockbyBlock,Community News Summit 2012, Eleanor Cippel of E.W. Scripps, gave the 125 publishers in attendance tough love on what commitment to sales looks like in term of time and discipline. Her...
View ArticleSupport Us: How to ask your news audience for money
Indie online news sites can ask their audiences for money by stating very simply: “Support Us.” ”I believe there is value in what we do and readers should pay for it,’ said David Boraks of...
View ArticleHow Knight Lab’s Local Circle could lead to ad revenue
United we stand, divided we fall? Indie news publishers continue to explore what ad revenue sharing could look like. NU's Knight Innovation Lab's Rich Gordon discusses an idea called Local Circle that...
View ArticleBxB moves on
Block by Block: Community News Summit 2012 was the third and final conference. We’re keeping this site as an archive of resources for online community news publishers. There’s more! Independent...
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