Finding new people to tell the stories: '... progress in democratizing journalism doesn't necessarily translate into more or better news coverage--at least not yet.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)

Late in July, when a former member of the Minneapolis City Council went on trial in a high-profile bribery case, I received an e-mail from a local community activist alerting me to a woman who was determined to sit through the entire proceedings and describe the finer points of a trial that was headline news in the Twin Cities media.

I went to the blog site where she was filing her report and spent the next half hour or so riveted by the excruciating detail she was providing. For better or worse, her words were the closest thing to a court transcript the public would ever see. ...

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