Demonstrations
The following are examples of where Portland Media Lab recommendations are being put into practice or where experiments are occurring.
Portland Media Market
Support to freelancer journalists
Freelancing in the Digital Era
Multi-Media Training/ Networking for journalists
Digital Journalism Portland
Maximizing the social benefits of citizen reporting/crowdsourcing/wiki
Daniel Bachhuber’s wiki report/open notebook on Tualatin Library, Tualatin, Ore.
Portland Sentinel’s coverage of the North Portland “Mystery Plan”
Portland Sentinel’s coverage of a St Johns house fire
Advancing news applications for emergent IT technology
Funnymonkey’s Drupal customization for publications [launch pending]
In other markets
Hyperlocal wire service or co-op editorial support
Guardian MediaTalk USA (this is not implementation but further discussion)