US: Newspaper veterans in Baltimore see the future online
Posted by Jodie Hopperton on December 12, 2006 at 10:54 AM
Unusually it’s the veterans of the newspaper world that are putting together an online newspaper to attract a younger audience in Baltimore. They hope to gain contributions from citizen journalists and will use various forms of media including audio and video.
Fern Shen, formerly of The Washington Post, Marc Steiner of WYPR and Sean Carton, an executive with id5, a Baltimore interactive marketing consultancy, hope to launch the site in the spring with the aid of a $5,000 grant from the Abell Foundation.
"People know how much our society is moving to the Internet," Shen wrote Friday in an e-mail. "For better or worse, that's where our kids will be getting their news. There's got to be some kind of entity that will actually be healthy and viable in the Internet age and yet serve the important role newspapers traditionally filled."
"This city is really ready for it," said Shen, who has lived in Baltimore since the mid-1980s and also worked at The Evening Sun. She said people she has spoken with say they want "an alternative to The Sun."
Source: Baltimore Sun
"People know how much our society is moving to the Internet," Shen wrote Friday in an e-mail. "For better or worse, that's where our kids will be getting their news. There's got to be some kind of entity that will actually be healthy and viable in the Internet age and yet serve the important role newspapers traditionally filled."
"This city is really ready for it," said Shen, who has lived in Baltimore since the mid-1980s and also worked at The Evening Sun. She said people she has spoken with say they want "an alternative to The Sun."
Source: Baltimore Sun
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