SiliconBeat

In addition to my work at the Mercury News, I’m also part of a group blog hosted by PBS called IdeaLab. It’s a place where various folks working on projects related to the future of journalism write about their progress. Today I have a post over there about an event we held this weekend at the Mercury News called CopyCamp:

“This past weekend, as part of my day job at the San Jose Mercury News, we took a stab at that question by holding our first CopyCamp. What is CopyCamp? You can get the full background here from the idea’s author, David Cohn, who now has his hands full with his Knight project, Spot.Us.

But here’s the concept in a nutshell: Invite members of the community into the newsroom for an unconference to have a conversation about our news coverage. In our case, we decided to focus this particular CopyCamp on issues related to our coverage of race and demographics, one of the core stories at the Mercury News (the other being technology, of course).”

We had a good turnout from the newsroom and the community and I’m looking forward to continuing the discussion. You can read the full post here.