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Wars and Waves: Sri Lanka's internally displaced on Groundviews
The 28 minute documentary "Wars and Waves: Sri Lanka's internally displaced" that was produced by COHRE, and directed and written by Sam de Silva, is available online.

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Learning from the Backfence Experience
There has been a lot of speculation about what went wrong at Backfence. Mark Potts reflects on the lessons learned from the failed hyperlocal news project that should have taken the world by storm.


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Covering Communities Blog

What does it take to produce meaningful journalism?

The Harwood Institute has discovered four key insights to covering communities that will help you consistently produce meaningful journalism and fulfill your own aspirations and goals.

These insights are based on more than 15 years of research and work with journalists and communities. In this section, you will find detailed frameworks, tools and resources to help you make use of these insights in your own work.

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The worldwide spread of journalism convergence
Stephen Quinn and Deidre Quinn-Allan
Convergence is a likely destination for news media in many parts of the world, though the duration of the journey will vary from country to country. This paper defines convergence as well as it is possible to do so, traces its spread around the world, and describes some of the most common business models.

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Convergent Commons

The following are materials in both raw and edited form that can be used in the production of news stories.

[Video/Audio Materials] [Text Materials] [Images]


[Video/Audio Materials]

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Interview with James Farmer - Former Community Blogs Editor at The Age
Now the founder and administrator or edublogs
Interviewer - Lisa Gye

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Interview with Adrian Miles - Academic and Video Blogger
Adrian miles is coordinator labsome honours studio RMIT university, where he specialises in videoblogging, networked literacies and pedagogies.
Interviewers - Tony, Jane and Meg

Part One Click to play or Right Click and Save MOV file >>>
Part Two Click to play or Right Click and Save MOV file >>>


Interview with Garry Barker - The Age Technology Editor
Garry reflects on life as a journalist, citizen journalism and hyperlocal journalism

Interviewers - Barry and Yin
Available at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6SWTwG8w_c [edited]
Click to play or Right Click and Save MOV file >>> [unedited]

Log of interview [http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/barker_shotlist.doc]


Interview with Darren Sharp - Senior Researcher Smart Internet CRC
Darren talks about hyperlocal journalism

Interviewers - Pol, Siripun, Oil and Nathinee

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Interview with John Schwartz - Senior Researcher Smart Internet CRC
John Schwartz talks about blogging and new media

Interviewers - Pol, Siripun, Oil and Nathinee
Available on You Tube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe17Eh29AVw]
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Vox Pop on hyperlocal journalism

Interviewers - Meg and Tony
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Interview with Matthew Ricketson - Media and Communications Editor The Age
Matthew talks about the impact of convergence on news media and publications like The Age newspaper

Interviewers - Dipanjali and Trent
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Interview with Tom McKendrick - multimedia journalist from THE AGE
Tom talks about his role as a multimedia producer for online content at the theage.com.au

Interviewers - Gayathri, Selva and Komal
Available on You Tube - Part One [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlF45PvMDgw]
Available on You Tube - Part Two [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWfg3tZ7MK4]


Ellie Rennie on Convergence in Community Media - Ellie Rennie is a Research Fellow in the ISR, working in the areas of media policy and community communication.

Interviewers: Dave and Jane

Ellie Rennie on Convergence in Community Media(part1)
Available on You Tube - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Fe4m7NLj4]

Ellie Rennie on Convergence in Community Media (part2)
Available on You Tube - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Spj80kJyQ]

Ellie Rennie on Convergence in Community Media (part3)
Available on You Tube - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqs58HVzzMA]


Interview with Lisa Gye on Hyperlocal News

Interviewers - Kelvin, Moon and Felicia
Click to play or Right Click and Save MOV file >>>

Log file [http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/interviewlog_lisagye.doc]


Interview with Diana Bossio - Lecturer in Media and Communications
Interviewers - Arabel, Julia and Shalu

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Vox pop on Blogging
Interviewers - Arabel, Julia and Shalu

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Vox pop on Citizen Journalism
Interviewers - Isabel and Kate

Click to play or Right Click and Save
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/audio/citjournvoxpop.m4a]
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/audio/citjournvoxpop.wav]


Interview with the Editor Pacific Times
Interviewers - Kelvin, Moon and Felicia

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Log file [http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/interviewlog_pacifictimes.doc]


[Text Materials]

Timeline Key Moments in the History of Blogging - from Kate, Isabel and Steph
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/Timeline_Blogging.doc]

Timeline of Citizen Journalism - Jane Curtis
[http://jane.uniblogs.org/2007/09/25/history-of-citizen-journalism/]

Citizen Journalism Links - Yin
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/CitizenJournalismLinks.doc]

Interview with Eric Beecher - Julia Milesi
[Click here to Open this interview]

Introduction to blogging - Raisha, Tony and Meg
[Click here to Open this introduction]

Links for pocasting media - Siripun and Pol
[http://siripun.edublogs.org/2007/10/03/top-ten-interesting-links-to-podcasting-media/]

Introduction to Crowdsourcing - Oil and Nathinee
[http://oilly.uniblogs.org/2007/09/05/crowdsourcing/]

Hyperlocal Journalism Timeline - Arabel, Shalu and Julia
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/HyperlocalJournalismTimeline.doc]

Blogging Links - Kelvin, Moon and Felicia
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/blogginglinks1.doc]
[http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/docs/blogginglinks2.doc]


[Images]

There are images that can be used in projects at

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/convergentjournalism/]