Mackenzie Zimmer, a student in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College, has written a piece titled A Small Town with Big Ideas on Citizen Journalism (PDF - full text below).
A Small Town with Big Ideas on Citizen Journalism
By Mackenzie Zimmer
On any given day at the Goodbye Blue Monday coffee shop [...]
I update my Northfield civic blogosphere directory every few months… and did so again yesterday.
See the current version and let me know if there are changes needed.
Over the past week or two, there have been a couple of comments indicating that Locally Grown is, or is perceived to be, a “liberal blog”. I find this both interesting and amusing.
One of the things I’ve always appreciated about local politics is that the issues we deal with are non-partisan, and [...]
Coordinators Julie Bubser and Zach Pruitt are now bloggers at the newly revamped Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) website.
Right photo: Mary Nelson, Julie Bubser, Zach Pruitt, and Curt Benson at a recent WordPress training session at the Bittersweet Eatery Tea Room. (Mary and Curt will be working on the new Northfield Mayor’s Task Force [...]
Doug McGill, visiting instructor in English at Carleton, invited me and Northfield Citizens Online/Northfield.org board member Doug Bratland to his Truth vs. Power: A Journey in Journalism class this week to talk about our local experiences with citizen journalism, community media, and Northfield’s civic blogosphere.
There’s a good possibility that [...]
First United Church of Christ pastor Sandy Johnson started blogging on the First UCC home page back in March and has been keeping it up — due, no doubt, to the superlative blog coaching she received. heh. You can subscribe to the blog via its RSS feed or via email (sidebar signup box), or [...]
I was explaining our LoGroNo discussion guidelines to RepJ reporter Bonnie Obremski on Sunday. It was on my mind in part because of the Sunday StarTribune commentary by editor Nancy Barnes on their recent experience with opening up comments on their stories. They’ve now shut down comments on some stories and have had to remove [...]
Our guest today was Randy Jennings, local citizen, long time Northfielder, and eloquent critic of Locally Grown. We mostly discussed his criticism of the recent controversial blog posts and comment threads about the 6/2 Council meeting and the CVB’s performance, with an occasional tangent about citizen journalism.
The Twins broadcast bumped us from our normal 5:30pm [...]
Northfield’s civic blogosphere got a boost in the summer of 2004 when a group of government leaders from the U.K. visited Northfield. (We hosted them at the Contented Cow, naturally. They were starved for British beer and bangers and mash.)
It encouraged more local citizens and leaders to try blogging, including those running for local [...]
Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalis (PIJ) project hosted a moderated discussion last Friday night in their UBS Forum. A group of about 20 citizens selected from their PIJ database were invited to discuss the topic: The Press and the Public: What’s the new relationship?
A group of about 10 attendees from the Journalism [...]
I’m heading to the Minnesota Journalism Center at the Univ. of Minnesota later this morning for a conference titled New Pamphleteers/New Reporters: Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs. It’s one of a ongoing series of national conferences from the Journalism That Matters team.
The RepJ team will be attending, too, and [...]
Randy Jennings added this comment to the discussion thread attached to my blog post in which I was critical of the CVB.
Hey Griff,
Since you have such strong opinions about how city government and affiliated agencies and organizations should operate, why don’t you run for mayor or city council?
Heck, you already attend a [...]
In Sunday’s Strib: Citizens Kane & Jane: Grass-roots “citizen journalism” is taking off in Minnesota’s online communities as moonlighters report on issues they say the mass media are missing. (See also the sidebar on Citizen Journalism resources.)
Okay, I admit it. If Locally Grown had been mentioned in this piece, I probably would’ve blogged it on [...]
Ross’ post on Tuesday, Highlighting Other Local Blogs (in which he managed to highlight only one), prompted us to do a show on the local civic-oriented bloggers whose feeds we currently aggregate on our right sidebar.
It also prompted us to move up the aggregator widget, as well as shrink the number of/character count of the [...]
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.
See the complete listing of all her stories here, most current ones first.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski
Bruce Anderson Bill Ostrem David Bly, State Rep. 25B Ross Currier, NDDC Exec. Director Kevin Dahle, State Senator, D25 Bruce Morlan/Politics and a Pint League of Women Voters Northfield Calendar of events via Northfield.org