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Highlights from the 2011 journalists engagement survey

What happens if I click the ThankThis button? You are shown an exclusive local deal or a sponsored message, which rewards you and the content sharer with Patron Points, which you can donate to your favorite charities, and also pays the content creator. What is ThankThis? http://www.thankthis.com/r/Q606Fq6aT02bsRvwnIATaQ:3u3bDdqox05ed5jgsXoj0lx9d2D4YvI_wxWLC3uJiXA
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Nick Diakopoulos » News Commenting Systems

During my stay at the Sacramento Bee in 2009 I began studying the commenting system that the online paper was using, called Pluck. I became interested in how the newsroom dealt with quality issues in the online comment discourse.

‘Comments are content’ for local news sites: 8 tips to build community, coverage |

What types of stories get comment traction on hyperlocal sites? http://www.blockbyblock.us/2011/06/23/%e2%80%98comments-are-content%e2%80%99-for-local-news-sites-8-tips-to-build-community-coverage/
http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/121664/a-5-minute-framework-for-fostering-better-conversations-in-comments-sections/

A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections

Last week, my news organization announced we were evolving our online commenting practices a bit to improve the quality of discourse on NPR.org.
What happens if I click the ThankThis button? You are shown an exclusive local deal or a sponsored message, which rewards you and the content sharer with Patron Points, which you can donate to your favorite charities, and also pays the content creator.

Three kinds of engagement: outreach, conversation, collaboration

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http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102622/Community-A-New-Business-Model-for-News.aspx A few years ago, Public Radio International coaxed its most popular host, Ira Glass of " This American Life ," into digital cinema. Ira had already expanded his famed radio program into a traveling stage show that toured a dozen cities a year. With this new idea he would perform one show and beam it live to hundreds of movie theaters around the United States at the same time.

Community: A New Business Model for News

Rockville Central drops website for Facebook, offers eight lessons on Facebook news publishing

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/social-media/135825/rockville-central-drops-website-for-facebook-offers-eight-lessons-on-facebook-news-publishing/ A little over 100 days ago, a community news blog in Rockville, Md., took a big leap .
This week, we're excited to kick off our first local Truthsquad on NewsTrust Baltimore . Truthsquad is our community fact-checking service, where our community helps us research controversial claims from politicians, pundits and public figures. For the next two weeks, we'll fact-check a claim by Maryland Gov. http://bmoreblog.newstrust.net/2011/06/truthsquad.html

Baltimore NewsTrust - Blog: Join the Truthsquad and fact-check O'Malley's claim about Maryland schools

http://mashable.com/2010/09/13/future-social-media-journalism/

The Future of Social Media in Journalism

This series is supported by Gist .

Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process

As part of a “social media summit” this week, the BBC posted an overview of how its user-generated content desk handles reports from the field — verifying and curating them in much the same way that Andy Carvin of NPR has been doing for the past few months during the upheaval in the Middle East. As I’ve written before, there is a growing need for this kind of curation , but there is also the need to start looking at news as a process and not as a pristine, finished product.