Call For Community Board Bloggers
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about the decline of newspapers and whether blogs will be able to pick up the slack as newspapers cut back in general and on their local coverage in particular. We’d like to try to take one step to address this issue by increasing our coverage of…
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about the decline of newspapers and whether blogs will be able to pick up the slack as newspapers cut back in general and on their local coverage in particular. We’d like to try to take one step to address this issue by increasing our coverage of what’s happening at the community board level. To that end, we’re putting out a call for people who would like to cover their community boards. All we’d expect is that you’d make it to the general meeting every month plus the odd land use, transportation or parks & recs committee meetings when there’s something particularly juicy on the agenda. No formal journalism skills are required. Reliability, attention to detail and some common sense should be all you need. You could be in grad school or a grandparent, we don’t care; and you should own a digital camera. There will be a modest stipend for each report but don’t expect to retire on it. If you’re interested, please email brownstoner@brownstoner.com with “Blogger: CB #” in the header (substitute whatever community board number you want to cover for the “#” symbol). Let’s see how this goes…Update: Thanks to everyone who’s emailed already. Keep ’em coming! We’re going to let the dust settle before getting back to everyone directly in the next couple of days.
LOL, the MAB is summering in the Hamptons. Yes, I think it is — haven’t summer prices collapsed there?
FYI, the local free weeklies pay $25 or $35 an article. I know someone in my area who used to cover community board meetings for one.
How sad that a good idea proposed by Brownstoner is met with such inane drivel. If you naysayers think that the news reported by the local newspapers is top quality reporting, think again. I can’t count how many times I have been at a meeting or event and when I read the report it looks like I’ve been at a different meeting. On the other hand, some local reporters are very good – and report exactly what transpired. So it will be with these community based reporters – some will be good and some will be bad – and it will be up to the readers to figure out the real story. But it will at least bring some attention to community issues faced at the community board level.
You can be sure that those issues which merit further action are likely to be picked up on by ‘real’ (or at least professional) reporters who do scrutinize Brownstoner.com for stories.
> “I will be glad when summer is over so I can watch the expressions on your
> faces in the collapse of the Mutant Asset Bubble!”
Whay after the summer is over? Is the MAB summering in the Hamptons, only to resume collapsing after Labor Day?
Does your bitterness ever end, The What? Why don’t you get off your ass and “do” something if you’re so critical of everyone else.
Couldn’t be worse than reading to another one of your boring attack rants.
“Being locally involved and knowledgeable pays off – this blog shows that.”
Man you guys are so clueless! Who around here have knowledge about Clinton Hill??
Jon No! Newly transformed Retarded transplants no! Faux-Snoob Assheads no!
Now we get “NEWS” from a uninformed brigade of Retards for 25 bucks???
I will be glad when summer is over so I can watch the expressions on your faces in the collapse of the Mutant Asset Bubble!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Being locally involved and knowledgeable pays off – this blog shows that.
8 people have expressed interest so far.
All this discussion but I haven’t seen a volunteer yet.