Another day of grassroots journalism today. Barry Welsh, who recently announced at the YearlyKos Convention that he was running against Congressman Mike Pence again, stopped by the ElwoodIndiana.org newsroom for an interview today. Listen and lemme know what you think?

Didn't really prepare any questions - went for a casual 'conversation that might have happened in a diner somewhere' type piece. Almost Hank even get into it, which was cool.

Sold an ad to a Minnesota company today as well. Vibrant Technologies purchased a one month banner and got an advertorial page into the system.

I'm so behind financially that I'm playing a hardcore game of catch-up. Getting there, though, praise the Lord. And things are looking up all the time. I can feel a change coming. There's something in the air.

The title in this post has something to do with that. What we have here in Elwood (The Heart of Hoosierland) is one of the (only?) public newsrooms. We don't have 24/7 hours (yet), but when the doors are open, people are showing up - to give information or get information or share information.

One think I like about Welsh is that he understands the importance of the Internet. I sent a link to the interview to Congressman Pence's office. I want to invite them to our grassroots operation for an interview as well. (Any Libertarians out there have the same offer!)

The newsroom of the future (if journalism is conversation and the audience is important) will include the audience in the newsroom. Now, it may get sticky eventually (especially in bigger cities, but we can keep the same basic idea.)

Anyway, check out the interview if you get a chance.

I'm also thinking about releasing some spoken word audio stuffs I did while still working at The Star Press. Stay tuned. ;)

Barry Welsh Interview

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