Required Reading for Friday 5 October

For Friday’s class, please read two short articles from Nieman Reports about online community and journalism. Be sure to visit the “related web links” in each story:

• Community Building on the Web: Implications for Journalism, by Craig Newmark
• The Challenge of Community Building, by Gary Kebbel

Nieman Reports is Harvard University’s quarterly journal about issues in journalism. In their Winter 2006 issue, Goodbye Gutenberg (from which the assigned readings come), they look at challenges and opportunities facing journalism in the new information technology era. You may wish to browse this issue, or other issues.