References: Appendices
APPENDIX A: INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD APPROVAL
On March 28, 2013, the Marquette University Institutional Review Board (IRB) granted exempt status for this protocol under Exemption Category No. 2: Educational Tests, Surveys, Interviews or Observations – and thus essentially permitted me to interview up to 20 people as part of my research. Each of my five informants reviewed and signed a copy of my informed-consent form that IRB also approved and stamped.
APPENDIX B: NNS FOUNDING DOCUMENTS
This study includes an analysis of some of the documents created before, during and after the launch of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS). They include a one-page Q-and-A worksheet declaring NNS’ intentions from December 2010, a one-page news release in which news service announced itself in March 2011, and a draft of the narrative questions portion of its grant application to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, updated in March 2012.
APPENDIX C: NNS BYLINES
The NNS experiment relies heavily on recruiting and coaching reporters who may retain on staff for relatively short periods of time. A total of 32 people have bylines on at least one of the 229 news service reports reviewed for this study.
APPENDIX D: MEDIA COVERAGE OF NNS and THE ZILBER INITIATIVE
The news service earned a significant amount of positive media coverage before and during the time of this study – nearly all of which the following was reviewed for this study.
APPENDIX E: NNS ARTICLES AND REPORTS REVIEWED
The study offers a listing of the 229 articles and reports reviewed for this case study of NNS, including those nominated for awards, special reports, discussed as segments on WUWM-FM’s “Lake Effect” show and repurposed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, produced by students in my digital journalism course, and otherwise published during 2013.
On March 28, 2013, the Marquette University Institutional Review Board (IRB) granted exempt status for this protocol under Exemption Category No. 2: Educational Tests, Surveys, Interviews or Observations – and thus essentially permitted me to interview up to 20 people as part of my research. Each of my five informants reviewed and signed a copy of my informed-consent form that IRB also approved and stamped.
APPENDIX B: NNS FOUNDING DOCUMENTS
This study includes an analysis of some of the documents created before, during and after the launch of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS). They include a one-page Q-and-A worksheet declaring NNS’ intentions from December 2010, a one-page news release in which news service announced itself in March 2011, and a draft of the narrative questions portion of its grant application to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, updated in March 2012.
APPENDIX C: NNS BYLINES
The NNS experiment relies heavily on recruiting and coaching reporters who may retain on staff for relatively short periods of time. A total of 32 people have bylines on at least one of the 229 news service reports reviewed for this study.
APPENDIX D: MEDIA COVERAGE OF NNS and THE ZILBER INITIATIVE
The news service earned a significant amount of positive media coverage before and during the time of this study – nearly all of which the following was reviewed for this study.
APPENDIX E: NNS ARTICLES AND REPORTS REVIEWED
The study offers a listing of the 229 articles and reports reviewed for this case study of NNS, including those nominated for awards, special reports, discussed as segments on WUWM-FM’s “Lake Effect” show and repurposed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, produced by students in my digital journalism course, and otherwise published during 2013.
