Author Archives: Jessica Durkin

Scranton and Seattle: A Contrast in Modern News Media Environments

By Jessica Durkin | Published: May 20, 2010
This article is cross posted on the New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative website here, where it was originally published. Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Seattle, Washington, have little in common.  Scranton is landlocked, tucked in a valley 120 miles away from the nearest major city in the Northeast, with a population [...]
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Local news color, flavor go a long way

By Jessica Durkin | Published: March 23, 2010
AOL’s aggressive push into the hyperlocal news space with Patch.com is looking a lot like the traditional media chain newspapers in markets across the country. Whether this expansion will prove financially successful or popular remains to be seen, but AOL is up against a growing, independent body of community sites that offer a unique take [...]
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Spring, summer journo conferences

By Jessica Durkin | Published: March 21, 2010
Here are some journalism and new media events of note. (Disclosure: I am either attending them or otherwise involved in them.) 4/09-10, NEW YORK CITY, Society of Professional Journalists, Region 1 Spring Conference 4/24. PHILADELPHIA, Barcamp NewsInnovation Philly 6/3-6, DETROIT, Journalism That Matters, “Create or Die.” Gathering of new media and journalism bloggers, academia, technologists, etc. This JTM un-conference will [...]
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The New News

By Jessica Durkin | Published: March 1, 2010
I run a sister site to NewsRedux, InOtherNews.us, which I started in June 2009 as a place to notate the expanding online, local news and information landscape. The site has 65 news outlet listings in 24 states (and I have a backlog of about 20 more sites that need posting). I am led to new [...]
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