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Some of you may be interested to know that a somewhat similar association has been created at the beginning of the year in Paris, France, "jliste.net". It actually has a wider scope since it is meant to address any issue related to "journalism in the Internet age" ("le journalisme à l'heure d'Internet"). It also has a more narrow audience: mainly French - but also french-speaking Europeans, and *one* American member too.
The origin of this non-profit association is a mailing list which has been created two years ago about this very subject, called JLISTE - about 400 subscribers and half a dozen posts a day. Subjectwise (is that English?), Jliste is somewhere between CARR-L and Online-news. Role models, of course.
Jliste is unmoderated and open to anybody professionally interested by this subject. And so is the jliste.net association: unlike the Online News Association, our members are not only online journalists and researchers, but also "traditional" journalists or non-journalists (who nevertheless create news content and sites on the Net), etc. We feel the diversity of the members of the association (and of the subscribers of JLISTE) is our main asset: everybody has something to learn from the others' experiences.
I understand he situation is different in the States, where online journalism is more mature and online journalists may need a lobby to help them be recognized (so said Rich Jaroslovsky last year when he first expressed the idea of this association, if I remember well). Maybe we'll have to come to that too someday...
Good luck to Rich and the Online News Association. Does anybody know of other "journalism-and-the-Internet" associations in the world? Maybe we could do something in common - respecting each other's identities. Do let me know.
(Could someone please forward this post to online-news and online-newspapers - I am not a subscriber at the moment.)
Best,
Herve Cassagne PS: jliste.net web site is at www.multimania.com/jliste (in
French only). Soon: www.jliste.net. *Please* wait a few weeks if you're interested: the web site is currently in the middle of a major change - and my summer holidays are in August!
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