CoPress

Emilyingram addressed it right.

I would add up saying that the collaboration discussion is related to the same paradigm shift as in the discussion of digital x print (support, format, plataform), offline x online (synchronous) and as in the matters of business model (open x closed).

As you´re students, I suppose that your infra-structure and institution allows you some regulated freedom. I see you dare, I see you growing, heading to the point.

Remember Kung Fu Panda: there´s no secret ingredient – but keep an eye on the difference between public interest and interest of the publiic (we face this so much in Brazil).Fact is: include people on the discussion. "The great value added up by a journalist is to provide the connections" – I read something like that from Thomas Friedman´s "The Lexus and the Olive Tree – understanding Globalization". It´s great that you all seem to catch at least a fair glimpse of it.

Remember also what a character says in "Adaptation" (starring Nicolas Cage as two twin brothers who write for cinema). The character call attention to the fact that the world is full – full! – of news all the time, so there´s no complaining about "lack of subject".

Another guy says that one aspect of the crisis is that most people pay attention on the same things, and don´t pay also on the same things

Reality is really so interdependent and complex both locally and globally that collaboration is not only an opportunity, but un urgent need! We see so many things going worse than it could, while regular news and regular "offline people" are… say… with their minds out of the big deals. Mass media is so last millenium and so are people who are outside of crowdsourcing, social entrepreneuring, collaboration and innovation.

Survival of the fittest. Make news for the best, not for the most