Knight Pulse
About this original series
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# Episodes
22 episodes -
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Episodes of Knight Pulse
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How do you build community with Chicago news?
Founding Editor of Chi-Town Daily News (a Chicago non-profit online newspaper and Knight News Challenge winner) Geoff Dougherty talks with Daniel Honigman, Social Media Strategist at Tribune Interactive about building community with Chicago news. Find out who Colonel Tribune is, how Chi-Town does outreach on public housing, an idea about associating actions with a story, the importance of SEO (search engine optimization), and why to organize offline events for online readership. Other ways to ...
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Release date
Apr 29, 2009
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Runtime
11:45
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How does hardware relate to the future of news?
Nick Bilton of the New York Times R&D Lab shows us the Interactive Living Room, the 1', 2', 10' experience, and why sensors could be important to reporting.How would you like to receive news on devices? Thoughts on the 1', 2', 10' model?
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Release date
Apr 22, 2009
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Runtime
07:24
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What happens when we aggregate journalists' twee...
Gregory Galant (@gregory) and Adam Varga (@varga) of Sawhorse Media tells us about their new site, MuckRack.com, that aggregates Twitter (the popular microblogging site) streams from journalists.Find out why they built the site, how they are limiting the feeds and given context, a possible new feature, and their message to Oprah.Are all of a journalist's tweets journalism? What do you think about aggregating Twitter updates from journalists and news organizations?Shot 4.17 at Sawhorse Media of...
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Release date
Apr 17, 2009
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Runtime
06:06
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How can public access stations being local commu...
Tony Shawcross of Denver Open Media Project (denveropenmedia.org), a Knight News Challenge (newschallenge.org) winner, talks about the suite of open source Drupal tools his team has developed for public access stations to automate tasks and let viewers determine the broadcast schedule.
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Release date
Apr 1, 2009
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Runtime
06:46
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Knight Pulse/GOOD L.A. Community Leaders Tapped
Introducing six community leaders and five projectsKnight Pulse has partnered with GOOD Magazine to tap six community leaders in L.A. who are building community through five different projects (a recent LAist post on these projects gives more details).The six community leaders, who will host events later this year (more information on Pulse and the GOOD blog soon) are:Alissa Walker, Design LA (Pulse project page)Eric Steuer, Communicating Creative Commons (Pulse project page)Sonja Rasula, Comm...
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Release date
Mar 26, 2009
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Runtime
05:30
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Can online comments encourage reader action and ...
Nick Aster, Media Architect for Mother Jones magazine tells us two ways readers can take action through comments on the new motherjones.com and what the redesigned site means for their overall strategy.
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Release date
Mar 9, 2009
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Runtime
04:58
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Should local news sites use wikis?
Ryan Sholin of reportingon.com (a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner) and Brad Flora of windycitizen.com debate the merits of using local wikis (sometimes called "knowledge databases") in newsrooms. This started with Ryan's blog post here: http://ryansholin.com/2009/02/02/wiki-what-wiki-who-wiki-why/ What do you think about using niche wikis? Who should be the editor/moderator of this type of wiki? Is this serving a local information need?
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Release date
Feb 2, 2009
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Runtime
07:43
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What is the future of public media stations?
Margaret Rosas of Radio Engage, a Knight News Challenge project, talks about public radio stations and working with KUSP on being "the digital heart of a community."She also shares why the Radio Engage is using Drupal, how the Santa Cruz, California co-working space NextSpace has been a good fit for her company, Quiddities, and how public media is "perfectly positioned" to help communities come together offline.What do you think public radio and broadcasting stations can do to better connect w...
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Release date
Jan 28, 2009
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Runtime
08:31
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How do we generate more loyalty and passion for ...
Carol Coletta, CEO of CEOs for Cities talks about why copycat city planning is dangerous, why most cities shouldn't pursue a headquarters city strategy, and the what's interesting in the new Knight/Gallup Soul of the Community report. What do you think makes a city successful? What's the most important factor for you in deciding where to live?
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Release date
Jan 19, 2009
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Runtime
13:41
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Can you save snow with a Web site?
One of many new grant winners in the Knight Community Information Challenge, Katie Wright of the Park City Foundation tells Pulse how their new project will use a community site to impact climate change.What do you think about this green project?
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Release date
Jan 14, 2009
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Runtime
04:55
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