The Houston Chronicle talks community journalism and what's next

The Networked Journalism Summit in the Graduate School of Journalism of the City University of New York conducted an interview with Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle about the paper's dive into the world of blogs and citizen journalism. It sounds like it has been a successful venture for the Houston daily.

Here's what the duo says is coming next for the paper:

What’s next? What do you need to get to the next level?
Two things in the near term: (1) using reader interaction effectively in building communities around the site’s topical and geographical niche sites and (2) further developing a model for news coverage that turns sources into authors and readers into sources, potential putting our beat reporters in the position of conductors of this public symphony.

To do this, we will need further improvements to our reader interactive technology, the continuing willingness of the newsroom to try and to fail and some new compensation models for both our staff and their community collaborators.

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More sites will start doing this. Why? Because they said the paper is making money off it.

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