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If you haven't heard, The Star Press, the local Gannett owned newspaper, recently started their 'Your Neighborhood' feature - something Muncie Free Press has been doing since we started on July 4th, 2005. Although their promo's state that it's for local people to 'brag about their businesses' etc., I've been told that as a citizen I'm not allowed to use their 'citizen journalism' segment to let people know about Muncie Free Press.   I'm not asking for any special treatment. I just want The Star Press to do their jobs as journalists and cover what I'm trying to do with...

"Get Published!" - Or Don't. Gannett decides. by wanderindianaTue Jan 09, 2007 at 03:38:11 PM EST K. Paul Mallasch recently did a Question and Answer interview with us on his role as a pioneering citizen journalist with his Muncie Free Press. In the Q&A, Mallasch mentions that his greatest frustration was the refusal of the local Gannett paper, The Star Press (who, for the sake of transparency, also happen to be his former employer), to run a story on either MFP or his new venture, Indiana Free Press. Today, he wrote an editorial expressing his frustration. After signing up...

Newspaper to Local Blogs: Drop Dead Submitted by Lisa Williams on Tue, 01/09/2007 - 15:07. Independent placeblogs like the Muncie Free Press of Muncie, IN, are headed directly into head-to-head competition with newspapers who are starting to wrap placeblog-like community features around their traditional product. That's what's happening in Muncie between the Muncie Free Press and the Star-Press of Muncie, a Gannett paper. But while some papers who are testing the waters on internet community initiatives understand the value of linking to all local blogs, others don't. That seems to be what's happening in Muncie, where links to the...