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Poynter Holds Conference on Navigating News in Digital Era
Published on Poynter.org: March 31, 2009
By Bill Mitchell
With fewer and fewer journalists on the job, who will pick up the slack? Who will produce the news Americans need to govern themselves in their communities? And what skills would be helpful to news consumers as they sort through reports from fellow citizens as well as journalists?
A group of 23 entrepreneurs, bloggers and journalists gathered at Poynter last week to explore these and other critical questions about the evolution of news...
The conference is among several elements of a yearlong project designed to help both creators and consumers of journalism make sense of news in the digital era. The Sense-Making Project is funded by a $125,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
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