Is Rob Curley joining the News Innovation crowd?

It started yesterday afternoon with a request to join his LinkedIn network, followed by a friend request on Facebook. Then came the personal email.

Rob Curley, most recently with the Las Vegas Sun, contacted me in what I’m taking is an initiative to join the News Innovation movement. He is also seeking an opinion and advice from me on a project his team plans to launch soon. All good stuff.

Now, I took Curley to task about a year ago in a post called Kicking Rob Curley While He’s Down for not including more of the news innovators in his projects and experiments. Most have them have been pretty cool, but my opinion was and is that we can all learn and benefit from collaboration since we’re all on the same side.

Now he’s reaching out to the news innovators, and I’m happy to be a part to the process. This is a good thing. I’ll share how it goes.

Here the email:

Jason,

Thank you for accepting my Facebook and LinkedIn invites!

I am taking your advice. All of our big projects here at the Las Vegas Sun are being “ran by” different folks across the nation to get their input.

We are working on something at the Las Vegas Sun that we would love to share with you to get your most-honest opinions, thoughts, advice, or basically whatever you’re willing to share.

Do you have the time or willingness for it?

We would be honored if you would help us with this.

Thanks for considering!

rob

Author: Jason Kristufek