The Birth of the New News Ecology in St. Louis, 2006 #2059473 (License: Personal Use)

This hand-drawn illustration from April 2006 depicts a pivotal moment in media innovation: a green globe marked “St. Louis” sits beneath a newspaper headline asking, “The next newsroom… How do we create it?” An arrow points toward the phrase “The idea of the new news ecology,” symbolizing forward-looking dialogue among journalists, technologists, and community members. The image reflects a grassroots initiative to rethink local journalism amid digital disruption.

Used on pages covering media history, journalism innovation, or civic tech projects; typically appears in retrospectives, conference archives, or organizational origin stories where users seek context on early 2000s news ecosystem experiments.