The first panel on day two of the ISOJ tackled one of the big questions in journalism – is nonprofit journalism online sustainable? “We don’t know,” said Lisa Frazier, President & CEO, The Bay Citizen, one of the new startups in this area. The Bay Citizen has a clear civic mission to provide local news and, secondly, to stimulate innovation in journalism, with 27 people working in editorial and innovation. Since its
I’m very pleased to announce that the UBC Graduate School of Journalism has joined the DocumentCloud project. We’re the first first Canadian j-school to sign up for the project designed to help share, find and deal with the mounds of documents that investigative reporters unearth. I discussed working together with project co-founder Aron Pilhofer, and editor of interactive news technologies at The New York Times, at the ONA conference last