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Journal Register Company: Hurricane Irene meets Ben Franklin 30 Aug 2011 | 03:47 pm
New Haven Register staff members file reports after The Register's newsroom lost power. By Jon Cooper, @jemersoncooper About 14 months ago the Journal Register Company’s Ben Franklin Project ch...
Journal Register Company ideaLab: 30 Days of Problem Solving 27 Aug 2010 | 06:01 pm
The members of Journal Register Company‘s ideLab huddled up at the company’s corporate office for a day-long summit this week. It was the first time most of the 18 members (15 members and 3 honorary i...
Editor & Publisher on Journal Register’s Ben Franklin Project 13 Jul 2010 | 01:52 am
“It’s like saying, ‘Everything will be better when we move into the new building.’ No newspaper can wait to make those fixes.” — Journal Register Company CEO John Paton in the July 2010 edition of Edi...
More great ideas on free tools for your sites 10 Jul 2010 | 12:25 am
This list comes courtesy of Lisa Bu, New Media Content Director at Wisconsin Public Radio. PhD candidate in Journalism at UW-Madison. We haven’t met Lisa but her compilation is pretty impressive. We...
What needs to continue … by former Journal Register Company reporter 7 Jul 2010 | 12:20 am
If you haven’t read the blog post by former Kingston Daily Freeman reporter Steve Earley on the Ben Franklin Project it’s surely worth a read. Steve highlights some of the stories sites tackled but, ...
The Possibility of a Company-wide FREE Ad Tracking/Editorial System 6 Jul 2010 | 04:05 am
By Karl Sickafus, Daily Local With the Ben Franklin exercise came many questions and surprising answers. Can we do “what we do” with freeware? Well, the answer was a profound “yes-we-can”! We proved ...
Let Freedom Ring and Let Change Continue 4 Jul 2010 | 06:29 pm
By Jon Cooper, Vice President of Content, Journal Register Company This weekend Journal Register Company’s 18 daily websites and newspapers were published using free tools and crowdsourced journalism...
Ben Franklin … The Movie 4 Jul 2010 | 04:40 pm
A number of Journal Register Company newsrooms developed video promos and reports tied to their work as part of the Ben Franklin Project. Here is a sampling of a few: The Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant, M...
Editors changing their crowdsourcing approach 25 Jun 2010 | 05:15 am
The Ben Franklin Project is, among other things, an opportunity to re-imagine the newsgathering process. Part of the re-imagining is a focus on crowdsourcing. By placing the audience — the news consu...
The story of Scribus (free desktop publishing) 10 Jun 2010 | 12:11 pm
As part of the Ben Franklin Project most of our newswrooms are utilizing Scribus to build ads and paginate pages for the July 4 edition. Staffers at various sites have already produced live Scribus pa...
