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    Keeping it All Together

    Knight 2007 News Challenge Winner
    Geoff Dougherty

    by Geoff Dougherty (Bio), April 2, 2008

    Tagged: citizen journalism, technology

    I wrote a long-ish piece that's up over at poynter.org about how we organize and manage our crew of three dozen citizen journalists.

    We've had to take some unexpected detours into CRM software, etc., to make sure people and stories don't fall through the cracks, but it seems to be working fairly well.

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