January 5, 2009 – 6:39 pm
Len Witt, the person who came up with the concept of Representative Journalism, is visiting Northfield this month. I’m inviting the community to join us at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17 at the Goodbye Blue Monday cafe for an hour of informal discussion. Please email me directly at RepJNorthfield@gmail.com if you think you might [...]
December 29, 2008 – 7:47 pm
Discussions among LocallyGrownNorthfield.org visitors blossom and fade, to resurface another time or never again. Representative Journalism Project stories have had a similar cycle so far, but I’d like to insert a step when conversation about a topic begins to slow.
The goal of the step is to combine reader input and reported information into a single [...]
December 22, 2008 – 9:45 am
Here are the first three paragraphs of RepJ guru Len Witt’s blog post from last Thursday:
I am very pleased to announce that this morning the Harnisch Foundation provided a $250,000 gift to Kennesaw State University to help advance my Representative Journalism concept.
Bill and Ruth Ann Harnisch awarded the check in New York this [...]
December 15, 2008 – 3:11 pm
The Representative Journalism Project is nearing its five-month anniversary and my collaborators and I could not thank the people of Northfield enough for all the support they have offered so far.
We’re hoping those supporters might chime in now and let us know what parts of the project seem to be working and what parts still [...]
December 13, 2008 – 10:57 am
Vivyan Tran, Sung Hyo Kim, Logan Nash and Mackenzie Zimmer are students in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. They produced this 6-minute video titled Representative Journalism: The New Community Reporter.
October 22, 2008 – 12:24 pm
Northfield administrators are offering more money to Greenvale township in an annexation deal than originally offered in August, but still less than what Greenvale supervisors asked for.
Joel Walinski, interim city administrator, and Brian O’Connell, community development director, represented the city in a meeting on Tuesday night in Greenvale’s new township hall on Guam Avenue. O’Connell [...]
October 1, 2008 – 10:40 am
The October Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG) hit the streets this morning, and on page 34 is the new ‘Didja’ Know?’ column by RepJ reporter Bonnie Obremski. NEG publisher Rob Schanilec introduces the column with this blurb (I’ve added the URLs):
Three months ago, reporter Bonnie Obremski drove her Subaru from Massachusetts to Northfield to begin work [...]
September 10, 2008 – 3:03 am
Mayoral Candidate Mary Rossing checks the poll figures on a computer Tuesday night. She and Paul Hager won in the city’s primary election and will face off in the general elections on November 4. For audio coverage of Rossing’s primary election party, click below. Length: 1 minute 57 seconds.
Note: I attended Rossing’s party after she [...]
Since Representative Journalism (RepJ) is a pilot project, there is an ongoing evaluation component. Professor Rachel Davis Mersey (moving from the U of MN to Northwestern U this summer) will be conducting a variety of polls and surveys to assess the project’s impact.
Here’s her intro to the first RepJ survey:
We want your feedback on [...]
Our guest today: Representative Journalist Bonnie Obremski (that links to her bio page here on LG), the reporter for the Northfield Representative Journalist project (new page here on LG for RepJ).
We talked with her about her background, including why she dissed Northfield and its colleges in favor of attending some rinky-dink school out east [...]
Our Representative Journalism colleagues have hired the first journalist for the project, Bonnie Obremski. She’s packing up her stuff in North Adams, Massachusetts where’s she been a news reporter for the The North Adams Transcript the past two years. After a cross-country drive, she’ll arrive in Northfield sometime early next week. We hope to have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has a new white paper out titled Citizen Journalism and Newspaper Sites: The Revolution will be Uploaded.
Locally Grown and the Representative Journalism (RepJ) project are featured on page 11.
And the Ft. Meyer’s Florida Team Watchdog project (being launched by the Northfield News) is featured on pages 9-10.
(I’ve [...]
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.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski