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On March 23, readers of the Tahoe Daily Tribune received a unique offer from the University of Nevada, Reno graduate fellows journalism program. With the help of a new media tool called the TahoeNotebook, citizens could help report environmental news alongside reporter Adam Jensen.
Each story written by Jensen carries a link that connects to this new media tool allowing readers to offer Jensen facts, tips or sources.
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<b>To add to this story click here for the TahoeNotebook</b>
http://www.ourtahoe.org/addnotebook.php?url=630 ]http://www.ourtahoe.org/addnotebook.php?url=630
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The Tahoe Daily Tribune agreed to host the TahoeNotebook without knowing if it would actually work. Nothing like the TahoeNotebook had been used in a newsroom before. On the first day the Notebook appeared with one of Jensen’s stories, everyone involved with the creation of the TahoeNotebook waited to see how the community would respond.
Tahoe Daily Tribune City Editor Jeff Munson, who gave the green light on the TahoeNotebook, wasn’t as anxious.
“I didn’t have high hopes at first that it would change the world. It would take some time to grow and become an integral part of the Tahoe environmental community,” Munson said.
But Munson and others involved with the TahoeNotebook didn’t have to wait long. The first story to ever carry the TahoeNotebook received a post. It was a tip.
Since then, readers have posted questions, links to Web sites, thoughts and opinions. For Jensen, the more useful contributions through TahoeNotebook are those with a name.
“A comment with a name on it makes it ten times more significant. That person could be a new source,” Jensen said.
Jensen is excited about the possibility of new community-member sources.
“With the Notebook, I could see what the average community member thinks,” Jensen said.
Editors at the Tahoe Daily Tribune said they envision a role for the TahoeNotebook in the community.
“We decided to host the TahoeNotebook because there are enough serious-minded readers in the community who take environmental issues to heart and want to contribute. The TahoeNotebook is friendly to (reader contributions),” Munson said.
The TahoeNotebook will be with the Tahoe Daily Tribune for a long time. Through its lifetime with the Tribune, Munson said he thinks it will become an effective platform for readers to contribute to the news.
“I see this as something for the long haul,” Munson said.
Jensen agreed.
“If we can inspire people to participate (in public life) who didn’t participate before, then I think we’ve accomplished a lot.”
The TahoeNotebook was a project inspired by University of Nevada, Reno, school of journalism dean Cole Campbell, who died in January in an automobile accident. Campbell was and advocate of technology and citizen-based journalism.
Each story written by Jensen carries a link that connects to this new media tool allowing readers to offer Jensen facts, tips or sources.
<hr>
<b>To add to this story click here for the TahoeNotebook</b>
http://www.ourtahoe.org/addnotebook.php?url=630 ]http://www.ourtahoe.org/addnotebook.php?url=630
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The Tahoe Daily Tribune agreed to host the TahoeNotebook without knowing if it would actually work. Nothing like the TahoeNotebook had been used in a newsroom before. On the first day the Notebook appeared with one of Jensen’s stories, everyone involved with the creation of the TahoeNotebook waited to see how the community would respond.
Tahoe Daily Tribune City Editor Jeff Munson, who gave the green light on the TahoeNotebook, wasn’t as anxious.
“I didn’t have high hopes at first that it would change the world. It would take some time to grow and become an integral part of the Tahoe environmental community,” Munson said.
But Munson and others involved with the TahoeNotebook didn’t have to wait long. The first story to ever carry the TahoeNotebook received a post. It was a tip.
Since then, readers have posted questions, links to Web sites, thoughts and opinions. For Jensen, the more useful contributions through TahoeNotebook are those with a name.
“A comment with a name on it makes it ten times more significant. That person could be a new source,” Jensen said.
Jensen is excited about the possibility of new community-member sources.
“With the Notebook, I could see what the average community member thinks,” Jensen said.
Editors at the Tahoe Daily Tribune said they envision a role for the TahoeNotebook in the community.
“We decided to host the TahoeNotebook because there are enough serious-minded readers in the community who take environmental issues to heart and want to contribute. The TahoeNotebook is friendly to (reader contributions),” Munson said.
The TahoeNotebook will be with the Tahoe Daily Tribune for a long time. Through its lifetime with the Tribune, Munson said he thinks it will become an effective platform for readers to contribute to the news.
“I see this as something for the long haul,” Munson said.
Jensen agreed.
“If we can inspire people to participate (in public life) who didn’t participate before, then I think we’ve accomplished a lot.”
The TahoeNotebook was a project inspired by University of Nevada, Reno, school of journalism dean Cole Campbell, who died in January in an automobile accident. Campbell was and advocate of technology and citizen-based journalism.
