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The point of the summit was to think about membership at news organizations well beyond subscriptions and to really expand the idea of what membership programs could look like. As Jeff Jarvis said in his opening remarks, “Membership is not just about revenue — it’s about resetting the relationships we have with our public.”</p> <p>I think <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/putting-the-public-into-public-media-membership/">a lot about membership</a>, particularly as it relates to building communities, and I thought I would share some of the most interesting takeaways from the Summit, since my head has been swirling with ideas for the past week — and most of the projects I learned about didn’t come from inside the news business.</p> <p><strong>1. From Kickstarter,</strong> I learned that experiential rewards are just as exciting to people as physical ones. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371231/what-harley-davidson-can-teach-us-about-membership/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media Innovation</a></div> <dl class="article-tools"> <dt>Tools:</dt> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371231/what-harley-davidson-can-teach-us-about-membership/#disqus_thread" class="comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="371231 http://www.poynter.org/?p=371231">0 Comments</span></a></dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371231/what-harley-davidson-can-teach-us-about-membership/" class="permalink">Permalink</a></dd> <dd> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371231/what-harley-davidson-can-teach-us-about-membership/" addthis:title="What Harley-Davidson can teach us about membership">Email</a> <a class="addthis_button_compact" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371231/what-harley-davidson-can-teach-us-about-membership/" addthis:title="What Harley-Davidson can teach us about membership">Share</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016js_/http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4ccb31260be55b75"></script> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <div id="acm_ad_zones-11" class="widget acm_ad_zones"> <div id="acm-ad-tag-1426872050403-5" style="width:728px; height:90px;"> <script type="text/javascript"> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('acm-ad-tag-1426872050403-5'); }); </script> </div> </div><h3 class="edition">Thursday, Sep. 03, 2015</h3> <div id="post-371052" class="entry-content post-feature-secondary excerpt-1"> <div class="article excerpt"> <div class="image-right"><img width="160" height="102" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016im_/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/slackfeatured-160x102.jpg" class="attachment-article-medium wp-post-image" alt="slackfeatured"/></div> <h2 class="article"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/?post_type=post&p=371052" title="Permalink to The Slack bot trend continues, this time with Al Jazeera English" rel="bookmark">The Slack bot trend continues, this time with Al Jazeera English</a> </h2> <p class="article-meta"> <span class="meta-byline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/author/gurman-bhatia/" title="Posts by Gurman Bhatia" rel="author">Gurman Bhatia</a></span> <span class="meta-datetime"> <span class="meta-date">Sep. 3, 2015</span> <span class="meta-time">1:56 pm</span> </span> </p> <div class="excerpt"><p>When the Virginia shooting happened last week, the staff at Al Jazeera English didn’t get the news from a wire service. It wasn’t Twitter either. Instead, they got an alert on Slack.</p> <p>That’s right, Slack, the trendy real-time messaging app that has quickly become ubiquitous in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/how-7-news-organizations-are-using-slack-to-work-better-and-differently/" target="_blank">so many newsrooms</a>.</p> <p>Al Jazeera has a custom bot that is constantly on the lookout for breaking news. When it finds something that’s ‘breaking’, it sends a Slack message to the team.</p> <p>Reuters tweeted out the news before sending an alert on its wire, and that’s when Al Jazeera’s breaking news Slack channel received an update.</p> <p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot" target="_blank">bot</a> was built around two weeks ago by Alaa Batayneh, producer and data analyst at Al Jazeera English’s online department.</p> <p>“People aren’t always looking at email or news wires. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371052/the-slack-bot-trend-continues-this-time-with-al-jazeera-english/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media Innovation</a></div> <dl class="article-tools"> <dt>Tools:</dt> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371052/the-slack-bot-trend-continues-this-time-with-al-jazeera-english/#disqus_thread" class="comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="371052 http://www.poynter.org/?p=371052">0 Comments</span></a></dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371052/the-slack-bot-trend-continues-this-time-with-al-jazeera-english/" class="permalink">Permalink</a></dd> <dd> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371052/the-slack-bot-trend-continues-this-time-with-al-jazeera-english/" addthis:title="The Slack bot trend continues, this time with Al Jazeera English">Email</a> <a class="addthis_button_compact" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/371052/the-slack-bot-trend-continues-this-time-with-al-jazeera-english/" addthis:title="The Slack bot trend continues, this time with Al Jazeera English">Share</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016js_/http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4ccb31260be55b75"></script> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <h3 class="edition">Friday, Aug. 28, 2015</h3> <div id="post-368767" class="entry-content post- excerpt-2"> <div class="article excerpt"> <div class="image-right"><img width="160" height="78" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016im_/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-28-at-2.18.40-PM-160x78.png" class="attachment-article-medium wp-post-image" alt="Screen shot, The Washington Post"/></div> <h2 class="article"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/?post_type=post&p=368767" title="Permalink to The Washington Post’s homepage redesign was inspired by print" rel="bookmark">The Washington Post’s homepage redesign was inspired by print</a> </h2> <p class="article-meta"> <span class="meta-byline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/author/kristenhare/" title="Posts by Kristen Hare" rel="author">Kristen Hare</a></span> <span class="meta-datetime"> <span class="meta-date">Aug. 28, 2015</span> <span class="meta-time">2:53 pm</span> </span> </p> <div class="excerpt"><p>On Wednesday, The Washington Post unveiled the last piece in a site-wide redesign – the homepage. </p> <p>“The new homepage marks a key milestone in the site-wide reboot led by The Post’s engineering and news teams, one that has been driven by the in-house development of a new publishing platform called Arc,” the Post said <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2015/08/26/the-washington-post-unveils-dynamic-new-homepage-completing-its-site-wide-reboot/">in a press release</a>.</p> <p>So what’s different about it now?</p> <p>“We actually tried not to make it super different,” said Joey Marburger, director of digital products and design.</p> <p>The homepage is now more modern, he said, easier to scan and more visual. And what you can’t see may be one of the more important changes.</p> <p>“The term people use a lot is more dynamic,” Marburger said. “Really what that means for us is we can manipulate and change the homepage faster, at the true pace of news.”</p> <p>The old homepage was rigid and production-heavy. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/368767/the-washington-posts-homepage-redesign-was-inspired-by-print/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media Innovation</a></div> <dl class="article-tools"> <dt>Tools:</dt> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/368767/the-washington-posts-homepage-redesign-was-inspired-by-print/#disqus_thread" class="comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="368767 http://www.poynter.org/?p=368767">0 Comments</span></a></dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/368767/the-washington-posts-homepage-redesign-was-inspired-by-print/" class="permalink">Permalink</a></dd> <dd> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/368767/the-washington-posts-homepage-redesign-was-inspired-by-print/" addthis:title="The Washington Post’s homepage redesign was inspired by print">Email</a> <a class="addthis_button_compact" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/368767/the-washington-posts-homepage-redesign-was-inspired-by-print/" addthis:title="The Washington Post’s homepage redesign was inspired by print">Share</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016js_/http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4ccb31260be55b75"></script> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <h3 class="edition">Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015</h3> <div id="post-368029" class="entry-content post-feature-primary excerpt-3"> <div class="article excerpt"> <h2 class="article"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/?post_type=post&p=368029" title="Permalink to ‘Framed by WDET’ takes public radio out in public" rel="bookmark">‘Framed by WDET’ takes public radio out in public</a> </h2> <p class="article-meta"> <span class="meta-byline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/author/melody-kramer/" title="Posts by Melody Kramer" rel="author">Melody Kramer</a></span> <span class="meta-datetime"> <span class="meta-date">Aug. 26, 2015</span> <span class="meta-time">7:58 am</span> </span> </p> <div class="excerpt"><div id="attachment_368599" style="width: 750px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unnamed-1-1.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016im_/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unnamed-1-1.jpg" alt="Photo by Kenny Karpov " width="740" class="size-full wp-image-368599"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://kennykarpov.tumblr.com/">Kenny Karpov </a></p></div> <p>More than 60 percent of people in Hamtramck, a city in Detroit, Michigan, speak a language other than English at home. Many of those people are from Bangladesh. In Hamtramck’s 2.1 square miles, there are more than a dozen dress shops that cater to the predominantly Muslim community.</p> <p>When WDET’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://wdet.org/author/2/">Courtney Hurtt</a> and photographer Kenny Karpov decided to tell the story of Hamtramck’s Bangledeshi in 2014, they set out along Conant Street — where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zVJvyLywEhjQ.kSVTrj3olj5E">many of the city’s cultural dress shops are located</a>. But the story they told didn’t end on-air or online, where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://medium.com/@wdet/faith-wear-95dab90942a1">the piece now lives</a>.</p> <p>They secured a location, a store-front art gallery located only blocks from the dress shops, and set up an audio and visual exhibit, which featured 16 portraits and scenic images, accompanied by eight oral vignettes and displays of traditional Bangladeshi wear. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/368029/framed-by-wdet-takes-public-radio-out-in-public/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media 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class="excerpt"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/08/24/for-publishers-mobile-readers-abound-the-ads-not-so-much/">The Wall Street Journal</a></p> <p>The mobile conundrum persists with traditional and online publishers: nice audience growth, sluggish revenues.</p> <p>“News and information outlets ranging from the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to Business Insider and About.com all can point to rapid growth in mobile usage,” The Wall Street Journal writes Monday. “Time spent on publishers’ mobile offerings jumped 40% in the 12 months through July and now accounts for 55% of total time spent on their properties, up from 42% two years ago, according to estimates by measurement specialist comScore.”</p> <p>But reports, earnings calls and interviews all underscore how “revenue isn’t keeping pace—by a long shot—creating what industry executives are calling a ‘mobile gap.’”</p> <p>The act of hawking ads on mobile devices is no 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excerpt"> <h2 class="article"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/?post_type=post&p=367599" title="Permalink to Fun at work? It’s tougher than it looks" rel="bookmark">Fun at work? It’s tougher than it looks</a> </h2> <p class="article-meta"> <span class="meta-byline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/author/kattiehawk/" title="Posts by Katie Hawkins-Gaar" rel="author">Katie Hawkins-Gaar</a></span> <span class="meta-datetime"> <span class="meta-date">Aug. 24, 2015</span> <span class="meta-time">10:22 am</span> </span> </p> <div class="excerpt"><div id="attachment_350575" style="width: 750px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016im_/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/happynewsroom.split_.jpg" alt="happynewsroom.split" width="740" height="450" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-367861"/> <p class="wp-caption-text">There are lots of ways to help create a happy newsroom. We’ll go with the donuts. (Katie Hawkins-Gaar/Jordan Kranse/Hannah Leyva) </p> </div> <p>Earlier this month, we spent an entire week at Poynter focused on the topic of fun at work. The concept was born out of a conversation during a work trip. It was the kind of idea that seems interesting but would require a lot of work, the type that often gets thrown around and rarely sees follow-through.</p> <p>But this idea was different. It was something I couldn’t shake.</p> <p>I worked at CNN for seven years, from 2007 to 2014, and watched morale rise and fall during that time. I listened to seemingly endless complaints from colleagues and did more than my fair share of complaining. I struggled with growing amounts of work and stress. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/367599/fun-at-work-its-tougher-than-it-looks/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media Innovation</a></div> <dl class="article-tools"> <dt>Tools:</dt> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/367599/fun-at-work-its-tougher-than-it-looks/#disqus_thread" class="comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="367599 http://www.poynter.org/?p=367599">0 Comments</span></a></dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/367599/fun-at-work-its-tougher-than-it-looks/" class="permalink">Permalink</a></dd> <dd> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/367599/fun-at-work-its-tougher-than-it-looks/" addthis:title="Fun at work? 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The money will be aimed toward helping the investigative non-profit improve on an existing crowdsourcing platform, in addition to offering a two-week training program for journalists.</p> <p>ProPublica will offer training to 10 to 12 people through a two-week Knight-ProPublica Summer Institute next year. It will be focused at helping the participants learn to become visual data journalists. The organization is still not sure how it will select people for the training program. 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The event features 100 journalists and leaders from several organizations.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/poynter-and-macarthur-foundation-to-host-mobile-news-summit-at-columbia-graduate-school-of-journalism-to-explore-the-future-of-mobile-news-300129108.html"> According to a press release</a>, journalists can apply to attend the event:</p> <blockquote><p>Participation is by invitation only and will be at no cost to invitees. A limited number of journalists also will be invited to apply to attend the summit. Media leaders and journalists who wish to apply for the summit may obtain an application by emailing Poynter at: sregister@poynter.org. A video recording of the summit will be posted on Poynter.org following the event. </p></blockquote> <p>People participating at the event come from BuzzFeed, The New York Times, Fusion, AJ+ and other news organizations. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/366659/poynter-will-host-a-mobile-news-summit-at-columbia-journalism-school/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media Innovation</a></div> <dl class="article-tools"> <dt>Tools:</dt> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/366659/poynter-will-host-a-mobile-news-summit-at-columbia-journalism-school/#disqus_thread" class="comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="366659 http://www.poynter.org/?p=366659">0 Comments</span></a></dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/366659/poynter-will-host-a-mobile-news-summit-at-columbia-journalism-school/" class="permalink">Permalink</a></dd> <dd> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/366659/poynter-will-host-a-mobile-news-summit-at-columbia-journalism-school/" addthis:title="Poynter will host a Mobile News Summit at Columbia Journalism School">Email</a> <a class="addthis_button_compact" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/366659/poynter-will-host-a-mobile-news-summit-at-columbia-journalism-school/" addthis:title="Poynter will host a Mobile News Summit at Columbia Journalism School">Share</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016js_/http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4ccb31260be55b75"></script> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <h3 class="edition">Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015</h3> <div id="post-365933" class="entry-content post-feature-primary excerpt-8"> <div class="article excerpt"> <div class="image-right"><img width="160" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016im_/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0729-1-160x120.jpg" class="attachment-article-medium wp-post-image" alt="Photo by Shadi Rahimi, AJ+"/></div> <h2 class="article"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/?post_type=post&p=365933" title="Permalink to Ferguson: On parachuting in and breaking news on Twitter" rel="bookmark">Ferguson: On parachuting in and breaking news on Twitter</a> </h2> <p class="article-meta"> <span class="meta-byline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/author/shadi-rahimi/" title="Posts by Shadi Rahimi" rel="author">Shadi Rahimi</a></span> <span class="meta-datetime"> <span class="meta-date">Aug. 13, 2015</span> <span class="meta-time">11:36 am</span> </span> </p> <div class="excerpt"><div id="attachment_365949" style="width: 750px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0729-1.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016im_/http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0729-1.jpg" alt="Photo by Shadi Rahimi, AJ+" width="740" class="size-full wp-image-365949"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Shadi Rahimi, AJ+</p></div> <p>Four months after Michael Brown was killed, activist <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://twitter.com/deray">Deray Mckesson</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://twitter.com/deray/status/545903060586082304">tweeted</a>: “We exist in a tradition of erased histories. Twitter has helped us tell our own story. We are sitting in history and making it. #Ferguson.” </p> <p>Watching from afar as Ferguson first erupted in protests, I messaged on Facebook with a friend overseas regarding how similar the imagery looked to what we had witnessed during the Arab Spring. The words being used by critics and some media to describe protestors also echoed those we’d heard in Egypt; “thugs” and “violent,” and the police response was just as forceful, though less deadly. A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/https://twitter.com/ifalasteen/status/499819258373623808">split screen meme</a> went viral, depicting mirroring poses struck by two young men, one in Ferguson and one in Palestine, their lunging bodies tossing back sizzling tear gas canisters. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/365933/ferguson-on-parachuting-in-and-breaking-news-on-twitter/" class="read-more">Read more</a></p></div> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/" title="View all posts in News">News</a> <span class="arrow-right">→</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/category/news/media-innovation/" title="View all posts in Media Innovation">Media Innovation</a></div> <dl class="article-tools"> <dt>Tools:</dt> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/365933/ferguson-on-parachuting-in-and-breaking-news-on-twitter/#disqus_thread" class="comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="365933 http://www.poynter.org/?p=365933">0 Comments</span></a></dd> <dd><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/365933/ferguson-on-parachuting-in-and-breaking-news-on-twitter/" class="permalink">Permalink</a></dd> <dd> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/365933/ferguson-on-parachuting-in-and-breaking-news-on-twitter/" addthis:title="Ferguson: On parachuting in and breaking news on Twitter">Email</a> <a class="addthis_button_compact" addthis:url="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/365933/ferguson-on-parachuting-in-and-breaking-news-on-twitter/" addthis:title="Ferguson: On parachuting in and breaking news on Twitter">Share</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016js_/http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4ccb31260be55b75"></script> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <div id="post-365867" class="entry-content post- excerpt-9"> <div class="article excerpt"> <h2 class="article"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/?post_type=post&p=365867" title="Permalink to Knight-VICE Innovators Fund winner: In Africa, ‘We need our own BuzzFeed, our own Huffington Post…’" rel="bookmark">Knight-VICE Innovators Fund winner: In Africa, ‘We need our own BuzzFeed, our own Huffington Post…’</a> </h2> <p class="article-meta"> <span class="meta-byline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://www.poynter.org/author/gurman-bhatia/" title="Posts by Gurman Bhatia" rel="author">Gurman Bhatia</a></span> <span class="meta-datetime"> <span class="meta-date">Aug. 13, 2015</span> <span class="meta-time">10:00 am</span> </span> </p> <div class="excerpt"><p>When Farahnaz Mohammed started her fellowship at the Northwestern University’s Knight Lab, Joe Germuska, the lead at the lab, asked her, “If you could pick one thing that you can do about journalism, what would you pick?” She had an idea – she wanted to build a network for journalists from developing countries. </p> <p>Starting January 2016, Mohammed will spend three months in New York to work toward that idea.</p> <p>Mohammed is one of the four winners of the <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160016/http://knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/vice-media-knight-foundation-and-cuny-innovators/">first batch of the Knight-VICE Innovators Fund</a>. The fund is the result of a collaboration announced in December 2014 between VICE Media, the John S. and James L. 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