1. User Content: Andrew Chavez Associate Director / Digital Initiatives Texas Center for Community Journalism New Media for the News Media Workshop March 11 to 13, 2009 at the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism Meeting the user halfway

2. Why do it? “ Nobody would tolerate if, at the end of ‘Meet the Press,’ a bunch of weirdos stormed the studio and started screaming weird racist stuff. They’d call the police.” — Ken Layne , editor of the Wonkette

4. Commenting and User Feedback A good newspaper is “ a nation talking to itself.” — Arthur Miller

8. Social Networks

9. Who is using them Source: Pew Research Center for People and the Press

11. User Content “ User-generated content is all the rage, but most of it totally sucks.” — Jonah Peretti , co-founder of the Huffington Post