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Journalism and Community

A Case Study of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

M.A. Thesis • Herbert Lowe • Marquette U. • May '14

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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.

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