Finding the passion of place -- the new pamphleteers

What motivates people to launch a local online news community -- a
"placeblog" and what are their challenges, their successes, the
opportunities, vision and passion which accompany this work? Twelve
citizen-journalists -- "placebloggers" -- gathered on Friday, June 6,
2008, for a one-hour conversation at Minnesota Public Radio. Watch this
edited, 45-minute version moderated by Bill Densmore, director of the
Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Host:
Bill Densmore

Participants:
Michelle Ferrier

Griff Wigley

Tim Erickson

Tracy Record

Melissa Cornick

Leonard Witt

Cory Heidelberger

Lynn Chakoian

Patrick Phillips

Julia Opoti

Peggy Holman

Cameras:
Nicole Belanger
Melissa Cornick

Editing:
Nicole Belanger

Special thanks to:
Minnesota Public Radio
Blandin Foundation
C.S. Mott Foundation
Minnesota Journalism Center
Minnesota News Council

Filmed at Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minnesota

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