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Archives for May 7, 2009

May 7, 2009 By Michelle V. Rafter

Can the techies save the news?

If you think reporters, editors, newspaper pundits, Sam Zell and the Sulzberger family are the only ones worried about the fate of the media business, you haven’t spent a Saturday morning with a room full of geeks. At last weekend’s BarCampPortland III meetup, the assembled developers, programmers and Web 2.0 entrepreneurs were just as concerned […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Media Business, Newspapers, Online news, Oregon, Technology, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Abraham Hyatt, BarCampPortland, BarCampPortland III, digital media, hyperlocal news, John Hill, Neighborhood Notes, OurPDX.com, Steven Walling, The Columbian, the future of news, the media business, The Portland Sentinel

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