The hard-copy edition of CJR I received today -- Nov/Dec 2009 -- includes
on the front cover (photo attached) a citation to a piece by CircLabs Inc.
Executive VP Martin Langeveld, part of a package: "The Reconstruction of
American Journalism." The end note notes that "He is a partner in CircLabs
and blogs about the news business at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab."
His piece -- listed with pieces by Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger, J-Lab
Director Jan Schaffer and Princeton Prof. Paul Starr -- is entitled:
"Innovation IS the Answer: Why not a Journalism Geek Squad? Or Report for
America?" It already appeared online a couple of weeks ago and is at this
URL: http://www.cjr.org/reconstruction/report_ignores_webs_nimble_nat.php
Report for America is an idea we hatched in January at RJI and which I
posted to Change.GOV, the Obama transition website, on Jan. 16. You can
read about it here:
http://www.reportforamerica.us
I am meeting on Wednesday in Northampton with key folks at FreePress.net
to talk about how to move the Report for America idea forward. I'm doing
so at the suggestion of a contact at the White House, who suggested I talk
to the FTC, and my contact at the FTC said work with FreePress on it
initially.
Northwestern University registered the domain: reportforamerica.org on
Nov. 18, so they may be working in a similar idea. I'll try to find out.
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Bill Densmore, 2008-2009 Fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
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