Local Conversations

A few weeks ago I was able to attend one of NC State’s “Leadership in Technology” Executive Speakers Series. The topic was “The Power of Corporate Culture” with guest speaker Tom Mendoza of NetApp (http://www.netapp.com).
After the session I was able to chat with Tom on how he values success, his thoughts on starting a […]

With my last video from the Next Newsroom conference, I had a chance to interview Kara Andrade who is a Social Media Strategist and Web Editor at Maynard Institute. Kara also trains journalist to use social media tools, mentions how it’s a journalist job to filter signal from the noise, and gives advice for journalist/newsrooms […]

After the Next Newsroom conference Local Conversations sits down with Gary Kebbel of the Knight Foundation to talk about the future of the news and information industry.
Gary talks about how blogs launched citizen journalism and has created the opportunity for everyone to be a publisher.
I asked Gary for advice for existing and future journalist, […]

If you haven’t heard of citizen or community journalism take a look at http://carrborocommons.org. Local Conversations talks with UNC student and community journalist Katie Spencer on how blogs plays a role with starting http://carrborocommons.org, how local communities feel being apart of reporting news to generate content and some of the outcomes of hyper-local reporting in […]