**Please pass this message along to anyone who might be interested in
being involved with a new local media project...

B Channel News, a new online local video news collective, is looking for
videographers, on-camera reporters, video editors, journalists,
columnists, web designers/techs, and other volunteers to help us create a
new form of online interactive news media.

B Channel crews have been out filming events around town, and we have one
sample page up at bchannelnews.tv to demonstrate what we hope to
create.

Our goal is to provide comprehensive, factual coverage of key local issues.

We do this by providing as much information as possible, in a variety of
formats. Our job, as the media, is not to pick and choose from the
information we discover and present it with a pre-packaged angle. Our job
is to help you be as informed as possible, and draw your own conclusions.

We're aware, as journalists and researchers ourselves, how online media
archives are increasingly being used by students, scholars, researchers,
legislators, and others, as a tool for research. With this in mind, it's
critical that stories get told from as many angles as possible, and that
access be created directly to the source of the information.

B Channel News is an interactive experience. Each issue covered includes
several video segments, interviews, articles, and links to other media
outlets, as well as links to relevant websites. Each page has a comment
section, so that you may join the discussion, put forwards suggestions,
share information, and help steer the direction of our coverage.

B Channel News is located in Victoria, BC. Our coverage will be focused
mainly on events in this city.

B Channel News is looking to recruit and support beat reporters.
(Beat reporting is the craft of reporting on an issue or particular
sector, organization or institution over time. Beat reporters build up a
base of knowledge on and gain familiarity with the sector, allowing them
to provide insight and commentary in addition to reporting straight facts.
This distinguishes them from other journalists who might cover similar
stories from time to time. -wikipedia)

Possible beats include:

-Culture
-Politics (mostly municipal)
-Development and Infrastructure
-Business, Industry
-Education
-Labour
-Police and Military
-Criminal Courts
-Poverty and Social Services
-Environment
-Religion/Spirituality
-Community
-Technology and Science
-Health
-History

B Channel News is a collectively run media project. Our goal is to allow
reporters as much creative control as possible with their coverage. We
want to produce a quality website that reporters feel proud to be involved
with.

Though we are hoping to attract dedicated volunteers who are willing to
work with us on a regular basis, we are also accepting submissions of
articles and videos. Consider becoming a freelance reporter with B
Channel.

The B Channel News Collective meets every Sunday at 1pm.
Email info@bchannelnews.tv for meeting location, or call 250-857-NEWS