Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Newsmakers




While the project was making the news (Front page of last Friday's Times-Picayune!), I was with a class from the Cal-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The instructors - Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media, and Bill Gannon, director of online operations for Lucasfilm Ltd - brought 6 students.
They have audio/video of individual interviews with about 36 Gentilly residents, and they took photos of blocks throughout Gentilly. Their intention is to post all the content on a Google map, working in concert with this project to show what's happening in New Orleans and how the progress can vary house-to-house and block-to-block.
And this is just the first step. The next is finding people in Gentilly to serve as citizen journalists!

2 Comments:

Blogger Quintus Jett said...

The photo shows Dan and Bill with several students talking to Lynn Lee (left corner), president of the Indian Village neighborhood association in Gentilly.

10:32 AM  
Blogger Quintus Jett said...

And my colleage Xun Shi and his research assistant Ben Wilson were on WWL 870 AM in New Orleans this morning!

10:35 AM  

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