For my Media 2.0 Project, I created an independent news site called iReportMemphis. The purpose of this site is to show positive and investigative news stories about Memphis. There is so much controversy over the negative stories in Memphis that I wanted to show people some positives. Throughout this process I learned the value of making things cohesive and different tricks of the trade. For example, I would highlight news stories on my personal facebook page with a teaser, then send my friends directly to the blog of facebook page for the whole story. It's like being able to see the real news of television, but there are great stories instead of car crashes and murders. Not all stories can be positive if some news stories must be told, as in the case of Larry Porter being fired from UofM. For this reason, I added the investigative aspect to my news site. I also created a daily paper that generates new news content every 24hrs and post that to the facebook page.
Here are the links:
Blog: ireportmemphis.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ireportmemphis
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ireportmemphis
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/jesadler2268
iReportMemphis Daily Paper: http://paper.li/iReportMemphis/1322549272
The stats are as follows:
Facebook: 32 likes, 4 people talking about it, 131 total weekly reach
Blog: 1,140 views of all time, 3 blog followers, one comment follower (not sure why but there is such a thing as a comment follower)
Twitter: 32 followers, occassional RTs
YouTube: 250 views of first story, 3 likes
iReportMemphis Paper: 23 views, 2 subscribers
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