Collaborative Curation in Action: Building a Copenhagen Collaborative Newswire

by Ryan Sholin · December 8th, 2009 · 44 Comments

Publish2 empowers news organizations to band together in a Newsgroup to bring their readers the best of the Web through collaboration. A Publish2 Newsgroup enables any group of journalists to collect news and information on any given topic in one place, and then automatically publish the curated stream of links.

The Northwest Newsgroup was the first to prove that a large group of reporters, editors, and producers across a wide range of newsrooms — from a variety of media companies — could collaborate to curate regional breaking news. The Northwest Newsgroup became a collaborative newswire for the Web, one based on linking to the original reporting at the source.

This week, during the Copenhagen climate summit, a group of journalists from Mother Jones, The Nation, Grist, The UpTake, TreeHugger, and other news organizations have applied the collaborative newswire model to a major international news story, forming the Copenhagen News Collaborative to curate the best coverage from their own reporters, editors, and analysts covering the event.

Here’s the collaborative newswire published at Mother Jones:

Grist published links from their own an newsgroup alongside the collaborative Copenhagen Newswire (Indy Media @ Copenhagen), which became an integral part of their Copenhagen coverage:

The Copenhagen collaborative newswire appears as part of the new EnviroNation blog at The Nation:

Discover Magazine’s Intersection blog introduced their Copenhagen News Collaborative participation to their readers, pointing out the widget in their sidebar and finishing with this note:

“…there is a lot of Copenhagen news coming, and we stand at a nexus for producing it….”

Updated 12/10/09: The Copenhagen collaborative newswire is now live on TreeHugger’s key page on the climate summit:

Here’s a look at the long list of journalists in the Copenhagen News Collaborative Newsgroup at Publish2:

Collaboration is key: A lone news organization couldn’t provide the range of news and analysis covered by the stories being submitted by these sources.

Think about how you can make this work at a local level. Are you already exchanging links, stories, and photos with other local news organizations? Or are you still trying to cover every angle of every story on your own? What about national and international news? Would you rather publish links chosen by an algorithm trying its best to match a keyword search, or a high quality newswire full of stories hand-picked by journalists who know their beats?

Ready to build your own collaborative newswire?

Choose a topic or region, start a Publish2 Newsgroup, invite your peers and colleagues from other news organizations to join, and use Publish2 widgets and feeds to automatically publish a stream of curated news across platforms, send links to Twitter, and bring your readers the best of the Web, from any source in the world.

Categories: Aggregation · Filtering the Web · Link Journalism · Trusted Human Editors

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1 links for 2009-12-09 | Beyond the Echo Chamber // Dec 9, 2009 at 11:02 am

[...] Collaborative Curation in Action: Building a Copenhagen Collaborative Newswire » Publish2 Blog Publish 2 has a blog up about the cross-linking/cross-promotional collaboration among many Media Consortium members (altho this is not a TMC project) for the duration of the Copenhagen Climate Summit. [...]
2 The Media Consortium » Journalism’s Main Priorities in 2010 (And 10 Resolutions) // Dec 18, 2009 at 11:42 am

[...] concerns. But editorial collaborations can be done a number of ways. For example, Publish 2 recently described one such example “..a group of journalists from Mother Jones, The Nation, Grist, The UpTake, [...]
3 10 Journalism Resolutions for 2010 « Groundswell // Dec 26, 2009 at 3:58 pm

[...] concerns. But editorial collaborations can be done a number of ways. For example, Publish 2 recently described one such example “..a group of journalists from Mother Jones, The Nation, Grist, The UpTake, [...]
4 The Climate Desk: A Collaborative Based on Trust » Publish2 Blog // Apr 20, 2010 at 4:32 pm

[...] proved the power of collaboration in December, when Mother Jones, Grist, The Nation and The Uptake covered the Copenhagen climate summit with a Publish2 newswire. Jeffery said that because Publish2 was so easy to use the first time around, they wanted to use it [...]
5 publish2 // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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6 ryansholin // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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7 aschweig // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen (via @ryansholin)

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8 kkemple // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:21 pm

RT @aschweig: Collaborative curation in action: Copenhagen collaborative newswire w/ Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen (via @ryansholin)

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9 scottkarp // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with @publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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10 jacklail // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:28 pm

RT @scottkarp: Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with @publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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11 AdeMacLeod // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Interesting RT @scottkarp Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen newswire with @publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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12 P2chairman // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm

RT @publish2: Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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13 tracyvs // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:55 pm

@motherjones @thenation @theuptake @grist form #Copenhagen News Collective using @publish2 http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen. Collab in action!

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14 SaveTheNews // Dec 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Collaborative Curation in Action: Building a Copenhagen Collaborative Newswire http://bit.ly/8xtTiU via @publish2

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15 danielbachhuber // Dec 8, 2009 at 6:07 pm

Collaborative #Copenhagen news curation in progress by @motherjones, @thenation, @grist and others http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen #COP15

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16 SealTheDeal2012 // Dec 8, 2009 at 6:10 pm

RT @danielbachhuber: Collaborative #Copenhagen news curation in progress by @motherjones, @thenation, @grist etc http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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17 MotherJones // Dec 8, 2009 at 6:28 pm

.@ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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18 exucaveiracover // Dec 8, 2009 at 6:36 pm

RT @agranado: how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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19 MotherJones // Dec 8, 2009 at 7:01 pm

@thenation @grist @treehugger @CIRonline @Intersection_ Hey fellow #Cop15 collaborators, you guys see this? Super cool. http://bit.ly/5bIXUi

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20 PBSIdeaLab // Dec 8, 2009 at 7:10 pm

ryansholin: Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen: ry..

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21 lunaeparracho // Dec 8, 2009 at 7:12 pm

RT @MotherJones Collaborative newswire using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi

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22 ibidibid // Dec 8, 2009 at 7:29 pm

RT @motherjones .@ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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23 kensands // Dec 8, 2009 at 7:33 pm

RT @ryansholin: Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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24 Chuckumentary // Dec 8, 2009 at 8:02 pm

Collaborative curation in action: @ryansholin writes about our #COP15 news collaborative using Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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25 JasonBarnett // Dec 8, 2009 at 8:04 pm

Collaboration in action! @ryansholin writes about our #COP15news collaborative using Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen via @Chuckumentary

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26 TMCmedia // Dec 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm

Collaborative Curation in Action: Building a Copenhagen Collaborative Newswire » Publish2 Blog: Publish 2 has a bl… http://bit.ly/6vYSlJ

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27 ClaraJeffery // Dec 8, 2009 at 8:14 pm

High praise for the Copenhagen News Collaboration that @motherjones is a part of. http://bit.ly/8dSmSI #fb

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28 NobleFreshEnerg // Dec 8, 2009 at 8:19 pm

.@ryansholin writes about our #COP15news collaborative using Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen via @Chuckumentary /via @JasonBarnett

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29 NobleFreshEnerg // Dec 8, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Kudos for the Copenhagen News Collaboration that @FreshEnergy is supporting. http://bit.ly/8dSmSI

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30 QuercusCOP15 // Dec 8, 2009 at 9:16 pm

RT @agranado: RT @motherjones: @ryansholin writes on how Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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31 kate_sheppard // Dec 8, 2009 at 9:19 pm

RT @motherjones @ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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32 digiphile // Dec 8, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Collaborative curation in #Copenhagen with @MotherJones @Grist @Discover @TheNation & more: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi /by @RyanSholin #cop15

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33 russ_walker // Dec 8, 2009 at 10:16 pm

@publish2 shines light on Copenhagen Collaborative Newswire http://bit.ly/8dSmSI @grist, @motherjones and @treehugger r mbrs, plus more

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34 joshkorr // Dec 8, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Now this is how you do collaborative curation, people: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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35 paulbalcerak // Dec 8, 2009 at 10:59 pm

I highly recommend checking out @publish2 RT @joshkorr Now this is how you do collaborative curation, people: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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36 mokkikunta // Dec 8, 2009 at 11:20 pm

RT @agranado: RT @motherjones: @ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi # …

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37 journalism_mob // Dec 8, 2009 at 11:30 pm

RT @agranado: RT @motherjones: @ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi # …

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38 TENTHMIL_Johnny // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 am

RT @motherjones @ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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39 JohnnyKilroy // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 am

RT @motherjones @ryansholin writes on how #Copenhagen journalism collaborators are using Publish2: http://bit.ly/5bIXUi #Cop15

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40 awally // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:51 am

Google Living Stories should use this cross-pub strategy RT @scottkarp: Collaborative curation with @publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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41 JoshHalliday // Dec 9, 2009 at 3:56 am

RT @ryansholin Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen

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42 hamiltonguevara // Dec 9, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Collaborative curation in action: Building a #Copenhagen collaborative newswire with Publish2: http://bit.ly/p2copenhagen @publish2 #rad

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43 muratozoral // Dec 10, 2009 at 9:35 am

Collaborative Curation in Action: Building a Copenhagen Collaborative Newswire http://ff.im/-cI9nv

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44 csstone2138 // Dec 19, 2009 at 3:35 am

Collaborative Curation in Action: Building a Copenhagen … http://bit.ly/4xoiUU

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