Portland Media Lab

Portland Media Lab and the Sentinel’s online archive project

Posted in Foundation Building by Cornelius Swart on February 3, 2010

Portland Media Lab is now raising funds to help put all of the Sentinel’s archives online in a searchable, indexed format. These archives would do two things: preserve records of the papers from the past in their original print format, and make the information available to the public at www.portlandsentinel.com

PML is currently investigating ways in which to sustain the Sentinel’s online news service.  If you would like to make a contribution, or get involved in helping keep the Sentinel’s work alive and publicly accessible, please contact go to the Sentinel’s contact page and select “Portland Media Lab” from the pulldown menu. Or simply email portlandmedialab@gmail.com

Checks and donations can be made out to
Portland Media Lab
PO Box 3316
Portland, OR 97208 (more…)

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BarCamp Redefining J School- Oct 25th

Posted in Electron Cloud, Foundation Building by Daniel Bachhuber on October 19, 2009

[Guest Post by Portland Media Lab 'implementer' Daniel Bachhuber]

On Sunday, October 25th, the day after the SPJ Regional Conference, the University of Oregon is hosting the first ever BarCamp Redefining J School.

The idea is simple: to host a solid conversation about how J schools across the country can be catalysts for innovation, experimentation, and positive change in the news industry. Not that they haven’t been in the past; rather, the conversation will be about how they can be at the forefront of the future of news. We’ll cover the latest in digital tools, strategies for finding work, and ideas for how J schools can better prepare students to launch their own projects

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For those who have never attended a BarCamp, there is a method to the madness. A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Another term for it is “unconference.” With a traditional conference, the sessions are planned well in advance and panels selected by the conference organizer. BarCamps give the attendees a bit different of an experience. The sessions are brainstormed in advance, but the schedule isn’t set until the morning of the event and is determined in “open-grid” fashion. If an attendee feels qualified to lead a given session, they’ll write it on an index card and post those on the grid schedule. (more…)

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Statement of Intent: Create a nonprofit news center for Portland, Ore.

Posted in Foundation Building by Cornelius Swart on December 21, 2008


reporter1Dedicated to the support, proliferation and evolution of journalism

MISSION
Portland Media Lab is a nonprofit news center that seeks to promote excellence, innovation and the preservation of quality news reporting in the Portland Metro Area. Portland Media Lab will provide direct support for investigative journalism, establish training and support services to citizen reporters, freelance journalists and new media producers, and establish a laboratory for innovation in emergent news media technology and its many applications.

Over the past six months Portland Media Lab has conducted a series of in- person, online, and group discussions and “salons” aimed at developing a needs-assessment study for the “journalist community” in the Portland, Ore. media market.  The following projects represent services, resources and support that PML believes the media market needs in order to sustain robust public-benefit reporting and journalism. (more…)

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