Chris Busby of the Portland, ME Bollard on local online journalism

Chris Busby, Publisher and editor of the Portland Bollard talks about his online venture, The Bollard, its role in filling in gaps left by mainstream media, in providing a different perspective to local issues, and the challenges and opportunities of running a local journalism site.

Busby was interviewed in 2006 by Bill Densmore, the director of the Media Giraffe Project.

For more information visit http://www.mediagiraffe.org or http://www.thebollard.com/

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News & Politics

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• journalism
• hyperlocal
• media
• citizen
• local
• community
• maine
• portland
• bollard
• chris
• busby
• giraffe
• project

[ayrellen]

This is a great local publication. It is immaculately well organized, the writers are fascinating - their story titles grab the reader's interest. Just another fabulous thing about Portland, ME.