On Grassroots Journalism

One of the things that came up at the first meet-up earlier in the month was that the grassroots media efforts should be horizontal rather than vertical. Maybe that's one of the differences. For purer journalism, you want at least some trained in traditional reporter/writer/editor type of (vertical) management. Grassroots journalism will work better,though, with a horizontal distribution of power. The trick is in how to combine just enough of the two styles for the new product the next generation will fall in love with.

Concentrate on the now. Double the numbers one more time. Then another.

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