A brief introduction to startup CJReport.

What is CJReport? CJReport is a startup. It is a Citizen Journalism News website.

What is CJReport? CJReport is a startup. It is a Citizen Journalism News

website.

The idea of Citizen Journalsim Today’s citizens are technologically equpiied… S o of there is an incident people more than just notice S ocial networking sites and other user generated

content driven sites are all based on users being active While facebook/myspace can be a small “ book” on

yourself and you life Wikipedia does the same for “ topics” CJReport aims the same for news

Is this a good idea? … CNN started is citizen journalism website, ireport. Raw Tibet news made into Time.com. During Nepal popular uprising, up-to-date information

was delivered to people. S ocial monitoring… and the idea of everyone being a

witness What else…?

Why/History CJReport grew from CJNepal. CJNepal served as a citizen media during then K ing

Gyanendra’s direct rule. Gyanendra deployed army and police in media houses and

news was censored. Umesh S hrestha, a blogger suggested we do something. S o a Citizen Journalism website was created.

From Nepal to the world! Laurent V an Winckel, long time friends suggested taking

it to the next step… making it bigger. We co-founded CJReport!

Organization S tarted small… Organizational chart follows

Our Chart

What could be? Head Co-founders M anagers Editors M oderators Contributors?

How to promote CJReport? S earch engines? News papers? Facebook groups? Web A ds? B loggers?

Technical Things Runs on Drupal, a content managemtn system Features are modular and so are easy to install Runs on A pache, M yS QL, PHP Can run on both Windows and L inux, may be also on M ac

Currently… Currently we are using a V irtual Private S erver from

M ediatemple… Lets look at the stats… Costs about $100 a month on the server… What could be done?

What else? We need money… How to get money? We need an investment proposal, so we can get people to

invest on CJReport.

Questions?