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Crowdsourcing – tracking the rise of the amateur

How will crowdsourcing impact on the production of news and current affairs, particularly at the local level.

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The Politico: multimedia and niche, a model for future newspapers?

The Politico is the new, multimedia, Capitol Hill, political news title. The Editors Weblog spoke to executive editor Jim Vandehei. He describes Politico’s multi-platform structure, and how it could be a working model for newspapers in the future, which he foresees as being both niche and expertise-backed.

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Despite the predictions, blogging is here to stay, argues Margaret Simons

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Dinah Arndt

Fairfax community newspapers were established in 1865 and currently publish 28 community papers.  The online pages of the newspapers were first published in August 2000 and are still a work in progress.   As Dinah Arndt explains in this interview, there are pilots currently underway which will ensure that the online pages are more accessible and include more newspaper content. We began by asking Dinah about her background.

What kind of web presence has Fairfax Community Newspapers had in the past?

What are they planning for the future?

Will the new pages have any interactive elements?

 


Biography


After completing a university degree in journalism, Dinah Arndt started a traineeship at Fairfax.  She is now one of two news editors based in the Airport West Office, which looks after 10 community newspapers in the Northern and Western suburbs. 


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