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Help us in our "Ben Franklin Project"
I've requested that readers submit letters to me in conjunction with the Journal Register Corporation’s Ben Franklin Project. The Oakland Press is owned by the corporation.
The project is an innovative effort to utilize the online high-tech resources available and put out a newspaper. The Oakland Press and its sister publications will produce such an edition for July 4.
While the goal is to provide readers with a newspaper that will hopefully look pretty-much the way it usually does, the behind the scenes activities, particularly from a production standpoint, are harried and new.
The project has a number of aspects but basically there are two features. One is to produce a newspaper using available online technology. The second is an attempt to get the reader more involved in the newspaper. We not only want reactions to stories but we’re also trying to get direction from the readers as to the types of stories they would like covered. In some cases, readers might even be able to suggest some questions during the interview process in writing a story.
Getting the readers more involved has been generally called “crowd-sourcing,” a new catch word that can include any number of activities and efforts where an audience or group of people are asked for input.
That’s why I’m asking, for the Opinion Page, for readers to write a letter on one of two topics:
A. In your opinion, who is the most patriotic citizen you know or have heard about? The person can be a living or deceased local, state or national figure or an historical one; OR
B. Is the Fourth of July Holiday celebrated in true, patriotic fashion? What do you like about it and what would you do to improve or enhance it?
Please keep your letters to about 250 words or less. However, participation in this special project will not preclude you from writing another letter for the month of July.
Please send your letters by e-mail to me at “allan.adler@oakpress.com.” Any questions, please call me at (248) 745-4626.
Help me and The Oakland Press make this experiment a success. But time is getting short. Because of the different production processes, I need the letters by Thursday, June 17.
The project is an innovative effort to utilize the online high-tech resources available and put out a newspaper. The Oakland Press and its sister publications will produce such an edition for July 4.
While the goal is to provide readers with a newspaper that will hopefully look pretty-much the way it usually does, the behind the scenes activities, particularly from a production standpoint, are harried and new.
The project has a number of aspects but basically there are two features. One is to produce a newspaper using available online technology. The second is an attempt to get the reader more involved in the newspaper. We not only want reactions to stories but we’re also trying to get direction from the readers as to the types of stories they would like covered. In some cases, readers might even be able to suggest some questions during the interview process in writing a story.
Getting the readers more involved has been generally called “crowd-sourcing,” a new catch word that can include any number of activities and efforts where an audience or group of people are asked for input.
That’s why I’m asking, for the Opinion Page, for readers to write a letter on one of two topics:
A. In your opinion, who is the most patriotic citizen you know or have heard about? The person can be a living or deceased local, state or national figure or an historical one; OR
B. Is the Fourth of July Holiday celebrated in true, patriotic fashion? What do you like about it and what would you do to improve or enhance it?
Please keep your letters to about 250 words or less. However, participation in this special project will not preclude you from writing another letter for the month of July.
Please send your letters by e-mail to me at “allan.adler@oakpress.com.” Any questions, please call me at (248) 745-4626.
Help me and The Oakland Press make this experiment a success. But time is getting short. Because of the different production processes, I need the letters by Thursday, June 17.
posted by Allan Adler at
1:23 PM
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