Last Friday our good friend Eve Batey launched her new project, The San Francisco Appeal, a new online newspaper for San Francisco. Laughing Squid welcomes SFAppeal with open tentacles, we’re really looking forward to your coverage of our fine city.
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Nice! Not sure if you know about this; it’s a wiki setup by many Chron journalists and others trying to chart out what future newspaper models should look like. Lots of interesting thoughts:
http://postchronicle.wetpaint.com/
It’s called “The San Francisco Post-Chronicle”. An excerpt:
The Post-Chronicle is a wiki that’s building a model for the daily news organization of the future. It began as a response to the possible demise of the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle. Our city by the bay might soon have no newspaper.
Which is sad. As journalists, our hearts go out to everyone working at the Chronicle right now, particularly the long-time staffers and writers who’ve given everything they have to a dying institution. They deserve better.
But so does our city. San Francisco should have a great daily “paper”. Now, we have the opportunity to imagine what that might look like. In this space — and quite possibly in the real world — people (like these collaborators) can hash out what daily news might look like if we could start over, start fresh, and build for a digital world.
The beautiful thing about building the first new news org here in the Bay would be that you could draw both on the tremendous traditional newspaper talent and all the bloggers and reporters who’ve worked in the online world. You could also pick the latest in open source tools, so you don’t get locked into a crappy content management system that you also overpaid for. (Instead, you’ll probably just get a crappy content management system that was at least free.)
But San Francisco isn’t unique. Other communities have these problems — and are working to come up with solutions. Take, for example, check out the group of Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters who are exploring transforming their newsroom into a co-op via the wiki, the Seattle Post-Post-Intelligencer.