Dan Gilmore’s ideas for running a news organization

Dan Gilmore has an insightful list of things he'd do if he ran a news organization. The highlights, for me:

• Involve the readers audience as much as possible in things like community blogs, wikis and comments but give the most involved some sort of rewards. In Gilmore's words "We'd make it clear we're not looking for free labor."
• Articles would include a list of questions the reporter wasn't able to answer. The online versions would encourage the audience to help fill in the blanks.
• Editorial and opinions would "publish the best of, and be a guide to, the conversation the community was having with itself online and in other public forums, whether hosted by the new organization or someone else."
• The comment system would encourage the use of real names, and comments from verified real names would be given priority.
• LINK, LINK, LINK to everything relevant to a story.

He has other suggestions too, but these are the ones that caught my eye most. I'm especially enamored of pulling outside editorial and opinions content from outside sources and really building a community conversation page.

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