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Staffing and cost:

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	1) [[Pilot_site_content#Five-stage_crowdsourcing \| A five-stage crowdsourced reporting project]] that will offer promotion opportunities at every stage, give the community a way to experience the relational and collaborative nature of Banyan journalism, and yield journalism of significance to the community;		1) [[Pilot_site_content#Five-stage_crowdsourcing \| A five-stage crowdsourced reporting project]] that will offer promotion opportunities at every stage, give the community a way to experience the relational and collaborative nature of Banyan journalism, and yield journalism of significance to the community;

-	2) A [[Pilot_site_content#Local resource bank \| local resource bank]] offering a wealth of links to community resources where people ~~in the community~~ can use the Web to make their lives better, including by helping one another, and	+	2) A [[Pilot_site_content#Local resource bank \| local resource bank]] offering a wealth of links to community resources where people can use the Web to make their lives better, including by helping one another, and

	3) [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue reporting \| life-issue reporting]], items that are concise and relentlessly useful, offering readers immediate ways to take pressure off their lives and the lives of their loved ones.		3) [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue reporting \| life-issue reporting]], items that are concise and relentlessly useful, offering readers immediate ways to take pressure off their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
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	Stage IV will require three skilled people: 1) A full-time community organizer/executive director; 2) a local editor/reporter, and 3) a part-time reporter who will research and write the life-issue items. Except for the life-issues reporter, living in the community will be a condition of employment. Tom Stites, Banyan's founder, will provide editorial expertise and other support. It may prove beneficial to add a commissioned local ad sales person.		Stage IV will require three skilled people: 1) A full-time community organizer/executive director; 2) a local editor/reporter, and 3) a part-time reporter who will research and write the life-issue items. Except for the life-issues reporter, living in the community will be a condition of employment. Tom Stites, Banyan's founder, will provide editorial expertise and other support. It may prove beneficial to add a commissioned local ad sales person.

-	As revenue grows, so will the budget for freelance reporting. Haverhill.Matters will always welcome local journalism students as interns -- Northern Essex Community College ~~has~~ offered ~~interns every semester~~ -- and invite community collaboration in editorial efforts. Volunteers will be sought from the ranks of members to compile the community events calendar and other modest editorial tasks.	+	As revenue grows, so will the budget for freelance reporting. Haverhill.Matters will always welcome local journalism students as interns -- Northern Essex Community College and Haverhill High School have both offered a steady flow -- and invite community collaboration in editorial efforts. Volunteers will be sought from the ranks of members to compile the community events calendar and other modest editorial tasks.

	== Initial editorial features ==		== Initial editorial features ==

Main Page

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Journalism for and with the Community:

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	• [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue_reporting \| life-issue reporting]], articles that help everyday people deal with the life issues that press on them and their loved ones.		• [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue_reporting \| life-issue reporting]], articles that help everyday people deal with the life issues that press on them and their loved ones.

-	• A [[Pilot_site_content#Local_resource_bank \| local resource bank]] ~~and~~ a a comprehensive calendar of community events.	+	• A [[Pilot_site_content#Local_resource_bank \| local resource bank]] offering a wealth of links to community resources where people can use the Web to make their lives better, including by helping one another, as well as a comprehensive calendar of community events.

	In an unsettled time when the word ''journalism'' has lost value and fixed meaning, Banyan has developed its own practical definition: ''the reliable information that people need to make their best life and citizenship decisions''.		In an unsettled time when the word ''journalism'' has lost value and fixed meaning, Banyan has developed its own practical definition: ''the reliable information that people need to make their best life and citizenship decisions''.

Pilot site content

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Stage IV:

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	1) [[Pilot_site_content#Five-stage_crowdsourcing \| A five-stage crowdsourced reporting project]] that will offer promotion opportunities at every stage, give the community a way to experience the relational and collaborative nature of Banyan journalism, and yield journalism of significance to the community;		1) [[Pilot_site_content#Five-stage_crowdsourcing \| A five-stage crowdsourced reporting project]] that will offer promotion opportunities at every stage, give the community a way to experience the relational and collaborative nature of Banyan journalism, and yield journalism of significance to the community;

-	2) [[Pilot_site_content#Local resource bank \| a wealth of links]] to community resources where people in the community can use the Web to make their lives better, including by helping one another, and	+	2) A [[Pilot_site_content#Local resource bank \| local resource bank]] offering a wealth of links to community resources where people in the community can use the Web to make their lives better, including by helping one another, and

	3) [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue reporting \| life-issue reporting]], items that are concise and relentlessly useful, offering readers immediate ways to take pressure off their lives and the lives of their loved ones.		3) [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue reporting \| life-issue reporting]], items that are concise and relentlessly useful, offering readers immediate ways to take pressure off their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
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	==== Stage IV ====		==== Stage IV ====

-	The co-op will formally come into being as charter members' credit cards are charged, activating their memberships. An executive director and a professional writer/editor will begin full-time positions, inaugurating [[~~Pilot_site_content~~#~~Future_editorial_plans_and_ideas_to_test~~ \| day-to-day community news coverage]] as a the site's permanent centerpiece.	+	The co-op will formally come into being as charter members' credit cards are charged, activating their memberships. An executive director and a professional writer/editor will begin full-time positions, inaugurating [[Main_Page#Journalism_for_and_with_the_Community \| day-to-day community news coverage]] as a the site's permanent centerpiece.

	'''Content''': A fresh crowdsourcing project will be set in motion as day-to-day coverage begins, and civic engagement will be introduced as a fundamental aspect of Haverhill.Matters that reinforces its character as community-stregthening cooperative institution. In addition to inviting readers into conversations about crowdsourced features, the editors will propose questions of community interest every week and invite people to click into the civic networking space and work for constructive change. These additions will open new doors for continually attracting still more community members to engage with the site -- and to become members.		'''Content''': A fresh crowdsourcing project will be set in motion as day-to-day coverage begins, and civic engagement will be introduced as a fundamental aspect of Haverhill.Matters that reinforces its character as community-stregthening cooperative institution. In addition to inviting readers into conversations about crowdsourced features, the editors will propose questions of community interest every week and invite people to click into the civic networking space and work for constructive change. These additions will open new doors for continually attracting still more community members to engage with the site -- and to become members.

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	The personal and civic value of Banyan journalism, delivered on the Web at no charge, will be the marketing magnet that engages the broad community. [[Co-op_Ownership#Attracting_Member.2FOwners \| Further benefits]], available only to members, will attract a significant fraction of the readership -- hundreds, perhaps thousands in some communities -- to become voting co-op members. It is the continuing stream of their modest membership fees that will make the co-ops self-sustaining.		The personal and civic value of Banyan journalism, delivered on the Web at no charge, will be the marketing magnet that engages the broad community. [[Co-op_Ownership#Attracting_Member.2FOwners \| Further benefits]], available only to members, will attract a significant fraction of the readership -- hundreds, perhaps thousands in some communities -- to become voting co-op members. It is the continuing stream of their modest membership fees that will make the co-ops self-sustaining.
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		+	The formal Banyan business plan awaits completion of the Haverhill pilot news co-op planning,which it will incorporate.

	==== Journalism for and with the Community ====		==== Journalism for and with the Community ====

-	Banyan co-ops will be community institutions that produce the reliable news and other information their community and its people need. They will offer [[News report \| a distinctive approach to the news]]:	+	Banyan co-ops will be community institutions that produce the reliable news and other information their community and its people need. They will offer [[News report \| a distinctive approach to the news]], starting with these basics:

-	• day-to-day coverage of institutions and community happenings that range from city council meetings to school sports scores, plus features that reveal the community and its people.	+	• day-to-day coverage of institutions and community happenings that range from city council meetings to school sports scores, plus features that reveal the community and, in the time-honored tradition of community journalism, celebrate the lives of its people.

	• [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue_reporting \| life-issue reporting]], articles that help everyday people deal with the life issues that press on them and their loved ones.		• [[Pilot_site_content#Life-issue_reporting \| life-issue reporting]], articles that help everyday people deal with the life issues that press on them and their loved ones.

-	• ~~a comprehensive calendar of events and a~~ [[Pilot_site_content#Local_resource_bank \| local resource bank]].	+	• A [[Pilot_site_content#Local_resource_bank \| local resource bank]] and a a comprehensive calendar of community events.

	In an unsettled time when the word ''journalism'' has lost value and fixed meaning, Banyan has developed its own practical definition: ''the reliable information that people need to make their best life and citizenship decisions''.		In an unsettled time when the word ''journalism'' has lost value and fixed meaning, Banyan has developed its own practical definition: ''the reliable information that people need to make their best life and citizenship decisions''.

Resources Page

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-	~~here goes~~	+	====Journalism Research====
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		+	[http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/overview-4/ State of the News Media 2012] (comprehensive survey from the Project on Excellence in Journalism)
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		+	[http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age] (2011 survey by the Federal Communications Commission)
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		+	[http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Local-news-enthusiasts/Summary-of-Findings.aspx 2012 Pew Internet & American Life Project report] (research finds deep devotion to local news).
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		+	[http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-News/Summary-of-Findings.aspx?r=1 Understanding the Participatory News Consumer] (2010 survey of how people engage with and participate in the news)
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		+	[http://www.report.knightcomm.org Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age] (2010 report from the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, which is eloquent in laying out the societal needs Banyan is designed to meet; see the [http://www.report.knightcomm.org/introduction introduction])
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		+	[http://www.cjr.org/reconstruction/the_reconstruction_of_american.php?page=all The Reconstruction of American Journalism] (A 2009 report, commissioned by Columbia Journalism School and conducted by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson; offers a timely, wide-angle snapshot of the journalism landscape; its analysis is useful but lacks an understanding of the class divide in journalism; the recommendations, not surprisingly, come from an inside-the-beltway perspective.)
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		+	[http://people-press.org/report/652/ Americans Spending More Time Following the News] (2010 edition of biennial survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
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		+	[http://journalism.org/analysis_report/new_washington_press_corps The New Washington Press Corps] (2009 Pew Research Center examines decimation of Washington bureaus)
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		+	====Journalism's Shortcomings, and Hope for Better====
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		+	[http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/03/guest-posting-is-media-performance-democracys-critical-issue/ ''Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?''] (Keynote speech by Banyan Project founder and president Tom Stites at the 2006 Media Giraffe Conference on the future of journalism)
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		+	[http://jayrosen.posterous.com/the-journalists-formerly-known-as-the-media-m ''The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation''] (The NYU journalism thinker Jay Rosen's clear, comprehensive and masterly 2010 view of how the journalism landscape is shifting as Web journalism ascends. Happily, the Banyan Project's vision meshes almost perfectly with Rosen's analysis.
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		+	[http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2009/03/the-following-is-a-speech-i-gave-yesterday-at-the-south-by-southwest-interactive-festival-in-austiniif-you-happened-to-being.html ''Old Growth Media and the Future of News''] (Outstanding analysis of news as an ecosystem by Steven Berlin Johnson, author and Brooklyn hyperlocal journalist, in an address to the 2009 South by Southwest Conference)
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		+	[http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html ''Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News''] (prescient 1995 monograph by Ellen Hume about the breakdown of mainstream journalism and remedies for the future. Hume, a foreign correspondent based in Budapest, has reported for PBS and ''The Wall Street Journal'', is a former executive director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a former research director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab; she is currently an Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest.)
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		+	====Democracy and Citizen Engagement====
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		+	[http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/1420 Inclusive Social Media Study], funded by the Ford Foundation and conducted in 2010 and 2011 by e-Democracy.org in two Twin Cities ethnic neighborhoods, identifies techniques that can yield success in bring people together online in less-than-affluent communities.
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		+	[http://www.statefarm.com/aboutus/_pressreleases/2011/help-a-neighbor-financially.asp The 2011 State of American Neighbors Survey,] conducted for State Farm Insurance, finds people strongly inclined to help one another.
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		+	[http://www.amazon.com/Good-Citizen-History-American-CIVIC/dp/0684827298/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225488795&sr=1-5 ''The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life''] by Michael Schudson (insights on the differences between populism and progressivism)
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		+	[http://www.amazon.com/Populist-Moment-History-Agrarian-America/dp/0195024176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225488693&sr=1-1 ''The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America''] by Lawrence Goodwyn (how the rural populists organized millions and all but succeeded in changing the political and economic system of the United States)
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		+	====Banyan Business Background====
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		+	[http://www.ncba.coop/ncba/about-co-ops Basics on Co-operatives] (from the National Cooperative Business Association)
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		+	[http://www.2012intlsummit.coop/site/home?template=newsDetail&newsID=5893&utm_campaign=20120328-Infolettre&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Infolettre&utm_content=en_Read+on+to+find+out+more%2DCooperative+membership Cooperative membership hits 1 billion worldwide] (2012 report from Worldwatch Institute)]
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		+	[http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/2012-the-year-of-the-cooperative 2012: UN's International Year of the Cooperative] (Comprehensive article on the growing strength of co-ops worldwide)

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	Stage IV (scaling) -- Banyan will seek major funding, develop a 2.0 version of its software based on learnings from the first three news co-ops, add personnel, and work to scale the federation as rapidly as responsibly possible. People in many communities have already approached Banyan for help in creating news co-ops.		Stage IV (scaling) -- Banyan will seek major funding, develop a 2.0 version of its software based on learnings from the first three news co-ops, add personnel, and work to scale the federation as rapidly as responsibly possible. People in many communities have already approached Banyan for help in creating news co-ops.

-	== Resources ==	+	=== Resources ===

-	~~=====Journalism Research=====~~	+	Links to salient journalism research and analysis that informs the banyan concept may be found on this site's [[Resources Page]].
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-	~~[http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/overview-4/ State of the News Media 2012] (comprehensive survey from the Project on Excellence in Journalism)~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age] (2011 survey by the Federal Communications Commission)~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Local-news-enthusiasts/Summary-of-Findings.aspx 2012 Pew Internet & American Life Project report] (research finds deep devotion~~ to ~~local news).~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-News/Summary-of-Findings.aspx?r=1 Understanding the Participatory News Consumer] (2010 survey of how people engage with and participate in the news)~~	+
-		+
-	[http://www.report.knightcomm.org Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age] (2010 report from the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, which is eloquent in laying out the societal needs Banyan is designed to meet; see the [http://www.report.knightcomm.org/introduction introduction])	+
-		+
-	[http://www.cjr.org/reconstruction/the_reconstruction_of_american.php?page=all The Reconstruction of American Journalism] (A 2009 report, commissioned by Columbia Journalism School and conducted by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson; offers a timely, wide-angle snapshot of the journalism ~~landscape; its analysis is useful but lacks an understanding of the class divide in journalism; the recommendations, not surprisingly, come from an inside-the-beltway perspective.)~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://people-press.org/report/652/ Americans Spending More Time Following the News] (2010 edition of biennial survey by the Pew Research Center for the People~~ and ~~the Press)~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://journalism.org/analysis_report/new_washington_press_corps The New Washington Press Corps] (2009 Pew Research Center examines decimation of Washington bureaus)~~	+
-		+
-	~~=====Journalism's Shortcomings, and Hope for Better=====~~	+
-		+
-	[http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/03/guest-posting-is-media-performance-democracys-critical-issue/ ''Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?''] (Keynote speech by Banyan Project founder and president Tom Stites at the 2006 Media Giraffe Conference on the future of journalism)	+
-		+
-	[http://jayrosen.posterous.com/the-journalists-formerly-known-as-the-media-m ''The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation''] (The NYU journalism thinker Jay Rosen's clear, comprehensive and masterly 2010 view of how the journalism landscape is shifting as Web journalism ascends. Happily, the Banyan Project's vision meshes almost perfectly with Rosen's analysis.	+
-		+
-	[http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2009/03/the-following-is-a-speech-i-gave-yesterday-at-the-south-by-southwest-interactive-festival-in-austiniif-you-happened-to-being.html ''Old Growth Media and the Future of News''] (Outstanding analysis of news as an ecosystem by Steven Berlin Johnson, author and Brooklyn hyperlocal journalist, in an address to the 2009 South by Southwest Conference)	+
-		+
-	[http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html ''Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News''] (prescient 1995 monograph by Ellen Hume about the breakdown of mainstream journalism and remedies for the future. Hume, a foreign correspondent based in Budapest, has reported for PBS and ''The Wall Street Journal'', is a former executive director of the ~~Shorenstein Center~~ on ~~the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard~~'s Kennedy School of Government, and a former research director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab; she is currently an Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest.)	+
-		+
-	~~=====Democracy and Citizen Engagement=====~~	+
-		+
-	[http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/1420 Inclusive Social Media Study], funded by the Ford Foundation and conducted in 2010 and 2011 by e-Democracy.org in two Twin Cities ethnic neighborhoods, identifies techniques that can yield success in bring people together online in less-than-affluent communities.	+
-		+
-	[~~http://www.statefarm.com/aboutus/_pressreleases/2011/help-a-neighbor-financially.asp The 2011 State of American Neighbors Survey,~~] ~~conducted for State Farm Insurance, finds people strongly inclined to help one another.~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://www.amazon.com/Good-Citizen-History-American-CIVIC/dp/0684827298/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225488795&sr=1-5 ''The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life''~~] ~~by Michael Schudson (insights on the differences between populism and progressivism)~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://www~~.amazon.com/Populist-Moment-History-Agrarian-America/dp/0195024176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225488693&sr=1-1 ''The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America''] by Lawrence Goodwyn (how the rural populists organized millions and all but succeeded in changing the political and economic system of the United States)	+
-		+
-	~~=====Banyan Business Background=====~~	+
-		+
-	~~[http://www.ncba.coop/ncba/about-co-ops Basics on Co-operatives] (from the National Cooperative Business Association.)~~	+
-		+
-	[http://www.2012intlsummit.coop/site/home?template=newsDetail&newsID=5893&utm_campaign=20120328-Infolettre&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Infolettre&utm_content=en_Read+on+to+find+out+more%2DCooperative+membership Cooperative membership hits 1 billion worldwide] (2012 report from Worldwatch Institute.)]	+
-		+
-	~~[http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/2012-the-year-of-the-cooperative 2012: UN's International Year of the Cooperative] (Comprehensive article on the growing strength of co-ops worldwide)~~	+

Resources Page

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	Stites shaped Banyan business planning as a 2010-2011 fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and is now working with an organizing committee of community leaders to lay the groundwork for [[Pilot_site_content \| Haverhill's pilot co-op]]. The National Cooperative Business Association is supporting this effort by furnishing a seasoned co-op business development consultant to do a formal feasibility study that includes detailed financial projections.		Stites shaped Banyan business planning as a 2010-2011 fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and is now working with an organizing committee of community leaders to lay the groundwork for [[Pilot_site_content \| Haverhill's pilot co-op]]. The National Cooperative Business Association is supporting this effort by furnishing a seasoned co-op business development consultant to do a formal feasibility study that includes detailed financial projections.
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-	~~'''Read Banyan founder Tom Stites's December 2011 essay series on journalism's future as published by Harvard's [http://www.niemanlab.org/ Nieman Journalism Lab]''':~~
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-	~~• [http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/12/tom-stites-taking-stock-of-the-state-of-web-journalism/ Survey of the debris-strewn] digital and print journalism landscape.~~
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-	~~• [http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/12/tom-stites-layoffs-and-cutbacks-lead-to-a-new-world-of-news-deserts/ News deserts as a frame] to elevate the issue of how weakening journalism weakens democracy.~~
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-	~~• [http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/12/tom-stites-might-the-new-web-journalism-model-be-neither-for-profit-nor-nonprofit/ Why it’s time] to test co-op business models -- such as Banyan.~~
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-	~~''The Banyan Project pledges to to be Transparent, Accountable, and Open.~~
-	~~Learn more about the [http://taoofjournalism.org TAO of Journalism] Seal''~~
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	== Executive Summary ==		== Executive Summary ==

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	Welcome to the '''Banyan Project''', which aims to fill a gaping need of the U.S.'s troubled democracy by pioneering a sustainable and scalable business model for Web journalism that serves the broad public of everyday citizens and engages their civic energy.		Welcome to the '''Banyan Project''', which aims to fill a gaping need of the U.S.'s troubled democracy by pioneering a sustainable and scalable business model for Web journalism that serves the broad public of everyday citizens and engages their civic energy.

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Local resource bank:

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	In a prominent space, the site will offer a vetted guide to Haverhill resources [[the Banyan Public \| the broad public]] will find relevant, including:		In a prominent space, the site will offer a vetted guide to Haverhill resources [[the Banyan Public \| the broad public]] will find relevant, including:

-	• Weather widget	+	• Weather widget, with links to local weather stations

	• Events calendar		• Events calendar