community journalism

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This proposal will support continued development of the VozMob Drupal distribution, which includes completing the Drupal 7 upgrade of various contributed modules.

VozMob - https://vozmob.net/ - "amplifies the voices of those excluded from the digital public sphere, by appropriating mobile phones for community-based journalism."

This is Jason Cooper, I am a journalist at The Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review in Tiraspol, which is the capital of a new and emerging country (Pridnestrovie or Transnistria, depending of your language) which used to be part of the Soviet Union in the past.

I am one of the two people who are responsible for running the website of the newspaper, www.tiraspoltimes.com, which is updated throughout the day. Runs Drupal 4.7. In addition to the website, we also print a tabloid version of the newspaper (not daily, however) and we have a weekly news magazine called WEEKLY REVIEW.

My name is Gus Austin. I'm a musician, self-taught web designer/developer, and relative newbie to Drupal.

Hi, I'm Lisa Smith, online manager for BlufftonToday.com. I've been taking care of Steve's pet project since this summer when I joined the newspaper world for the first time. Before joining the staff here, I was a freelance web designer/developer.

Bluffton Today is a unique paper in many respects - we are a free tabloid-format paper distributed daily to every household in our town. Our daily circulation is 17,500. The community at BlufftonToday.com is vibrant and outspoken and has taken ownership of both the print product and the web site with amazing fervor.

Hi! By day, I run the community efforts at Network World, a trade publication for people who run computer networks in large organizations (in terms of circulation, content and staffing, we're probably the equivalent of a mid-sized daily paper). One of our most recent efforts was to try to integrate Drupal with our non-Drupal articles, so readers could immediately start discussions on those articles. It proved an interesting challenge - and an education in Drupal theming and authentication.

By night, I run Universal Hub, a sort of community-journalism site for the Boston area (the name is a bad pun on one of Boston's nicknames).