You’ve got a staff of about 200. Your task: to create a newsroom for the 21st century. Where do you put your staff? Where do you invest your resources? How many reporters do you need? What about editors, copy-editors, photographers, programmers, web producers, and technical support? How much do you focus on your website and [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about a recent episode of the World Technology Podcast on the so-called death of foreign correspondance and Paul Steiger’s recent front page reflection on the history and future of the newspaper industry in the Wall Street Journal just happens to set the context of what I have to say perfectly.
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It was social entrepreneur day at Stanford University on two Sundays ago as part of “Entrepreneurship Week” at Stanford. I wanted to go for a number of reasons. Global Voices is in the process of incorporating into its own Non-Governmental Organization. There are lots of NGO’s with weblogs, but I think we’re probably the first [...]