Link: PressThink: More Undercurrent: Action in Greensboro on Open Source Journalism.

This article from Pressthink is about the evolving blogging scene in Greensboro, NC which is part of the Piedmont Triad along with Winston-Salem and High Point.

Seems that what the editors at the Greensboro News & Record are trying to do is unique in the newspaper business.  As the article says:

With the local blogging scene rapidy coalescing
on its own, the local newspaper, led by a blogging boss, decides to
act. He wants to remake the site as "an online community or public
square."

And later they cite an email from the paper’s Lex Alexander:

…in many ways we’ve waited 10 years to do this and aren’t going to
wait any longer. My report is due next Friday, and we intend to begin
changing things on Jan. 3. And my editor has made it clear that even
though this effort will have to come out of existing resources, he’s
willing to divert to make this happen. He’s not looking for marginal,
incremental change, but transformative, revolutionary change.

It’s going to be very interesting to see how this local experiment affects the rest of the newspaper universe.

This article from Pressthink is about the evolving blogging scene in Greensboro, NC which is part of the Piedmont Triad along with Winston-Salem and High Point.

Seems that what the editors at the Greensboro News & Record are trying to do is unique in the newspaper business.  As the article says:

With the local blogging scene rapidy coalescing
on its own, the local newspaper, led by a blogging boss, decides to
act. He wants to remake the site as "an online community or public
square."

And later they cite an email from the paper’s Lex Alexander:

…in many ways we’ve waited 10 years to do this and aren’t going to
wait any longer. My report is due next Friday, and we intend to begin
changing things on Jan. 3. And my editor has made it clear that even
though this effort will have to come out of existing resources, he’s
willing to divert to make this happen. He’s not looking for marginal,
incremental change, but transformative, revolutionary change.

It’s going to be very interesting to see how this local experiment affects the rest of the newspaper universe.