Frank Barnako of CBSMarketwatch.com interviews Mark Potts and Susan DeFife, the folks behind backfence.com, a community journalism startup in the Washington, DC area. Why will people post messages to these communities? Potts says: “Because they are going to start to see how that community builds on itself. The value is in one person reporting, people telling others about it and the community knowledge that results.” The interview cites examples of other community journalism efforts that are succeeding and explains how such a participatory effort will make money.

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