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Journal Register Company ideaLab: 30 Days of Problem Solving

The members of Journal Register Company‘s ideLab huddled up at the company’s corporate office for a day-long summit this week. It was the first time most of the 18 members (15 members and 3 honorary if you’re counting) met, though … Continue reading

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Ben Franklin 2.0: Independence and the ideaLab

By John Paton Our successful Ben Franklin Project ( http://bit.ly/apHRbA ) has shown the world that in an industry that can be bereft of good ideas that smart people with the willingness to take a risk can produce revolutionary results. … Continue reading

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Start the clock!

From the blog of Journal Register Company CEO John Paton: The Ben Franklin Project – We Are On Our Way Folks, I am happy to tell you we have two teams who are taking on The Ben Franklin Project. In the … Continue reading

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Video, photo and other tools still needed

Since the announcement of the Ben Franklin Project by Journal Register’s CEO John Paton, we have received some tremendous interest and some wonderful feedback spurred by those watching and those helping. To date we’ve received suggestions of about 100 tools … Continue reading

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From Nieman Journalism Lab’s This Week in Review …

Journal Register Co. head John Paton details his company’s plan to have one newspaper produce one day’s paper with only free web tools. (Jeff Jarvis, an adviser, shows how it might work and why he’s excited.)

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Comments from John Paton’s blog on The Ben Franklin Project

Sam Piroton Says: April 13, 2010 at 9:16 pm | Reply Here is another good link; topic “a google newsroom”. really worth reading; was written by Benoit Raphael, director of lepost.fr. http://owni.fr/2010/02/12/towards-the-google-newsroom-a-revolution-for-media/ Thanks to my friend @davanac for the alert. … Continue reading

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Getting Started

From John Paton: The Ben Franklin Project: A Bold New Experiment If going forward, we are going to be part of the new ecological system for news then we need to learn how to harness the power of that system … Continue reading

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