“I don’t have the time to keep that thing going. It was a good idea.” – Dennis Anderson | Managing Editor, Lawrence Journal-World The Lawrence Journal-World joined the Net-J project as an added starter only in early 2011 after J-Lab efforts to work with another news organization ended. Ten months and three significant staff departures

“I believe these emerging news organizations are performing a valuable news service, reporting news I don’t see elsewhere, or reporting more deeply than our general-interest newspapers.” – Bruce Koon | News Director, KQED Public Radio KQED, the most-listened-to station in the San Francisco area, was the only public broadcaster to spearhead a Net-J partnership. News

“We will always do our brand of verified, deeply reported journalism—that’s what we know—but we believe journalism can and should include a much broader range of coverage, and we don’t necessarily think only our journalists can do that work.” – Peter Bhatia | Editor, The Oregonian The Oregonian was invited to join the second round

I was enthusiastic about this, but I had no idea how transformative this would be for us. It changed the center of gravity for our whole organization. – David Shribman | Executive Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In early 2010 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was invited to participate in a Networked Journalism pilot project. It didn’t take long

“I really felt like [the newsroom was] in a ton of stress while we were doing this. They still are.” – Angie Newsome | WNC LINC Project Manager The Asheville Citizen-Times (AC-T) got off to a strong start on building tools and recruiting partners for a network of news sites in the Blue Ridge Mountains

“If you do hyperlocal, be realistic about how often someone wants to write about something.” – Suzanne Levinson | Director of Site Operations, The Miami Herald From the very start, The Miami Herald baked advertising opportunities into its Community News Partners project. In some respects, this was easier to do than at the other Net-J

“Our modest success . . . proved that a major news provider in Arizona, either the Star or the Arizona Republic, could have great success creating a sports news network.” – Mark Evan | Editor, TucsonCitizen.com In May 2009, the afternoon Tucson Citizen newspaper shut down and its website was converted to a blogging site

“This has been hugely, hugely paradigm-changing for our newsroom, and for me individually… This whole notion that we would feature someone else’s content on our website and drive traffic off the site, that was such an alien notion at the time we took the leap on this.” – David Boardman | Executive Editor, The Seattle