Mark Glaser of PBS’ MediaShift has read 600 ideas for how to best serve community information needs, and has distilled them into an eight-step plan to get the job done.
Step One: Crack open government data and access.Glaser’s project is in connection with a big effort from the Knight Foundation to identify community news and information needs in an era when legacy news organizations may be greatly diminished.
You can read Glaser’s article on PBS’ MediaShift.
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