Posts from ‘August, 2006’

Craig Newmark is intrigued by the idea of editors as “curators” of new journalism. Sound pretty high-brow, but the concept has some resonance. What happens, though, when the audience collectively does its own selection? Is that mass curator-ship? (Note: Craig is an advisor and supporter of this center.)

As citizen journalism moves from an interesting concept to something more and more people will practice, we need to help would-be citizen journalists understand some fundamental principles of the craft. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization that has been helping train journalists for decades, understands the need. We’re happy to announce […]

Doc Searls: The Story of a Story. For what it’s worth, I didn’t think of myself as a reporter on the scene, even though, in a literal sense, I was. I thought of myself as a traveler blogging about being where news of some sort was going down, maybe. That’s not journalism as I’ve been […]

Hartford Courant: Bloggers Deflect Political Credit. Tim Tagaris, Lamont’s Internet communications director, worked with bloggers in a way akin to how a traditional press secretary works with the media. He said he tried to provide them with information their readers wanted, while also focusing on fundraising and volunteer recruitment, which blogs can bolster through links […]

In his New Yorker piece where he found such inadequacy in citizen journalism, Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism, wrote, “As journalism moves to the Internet, the main project ought to be moving reporters there, not stripping them away.” Now read, in today’s NY Times, a story about how Lemann is […]

The Toronto Globe and Mail has a good roundup of how social and citizen media sites are responding to the events in London today.

Over at PressThink, Paul Bass, editor of the New Haven Independent site, writes: If my experience is any guide, there are also pitfalls that point up the challenges that face the first wave of onliners as we develop the new journalism. I’ve found that some experiments that sound cool fall flat, while others take off. […]

The Wall Street Journal asks, “Where Did That Video Spoofing Gore’s Film Come From? The answer, it appears, is a PR firm that also represents Exxon Mobil: In an email exchange with The Wall Street Journal, Toutsmith didn’t answer when asked who he was or why he made the video, which has just over 59,000 […]

As you’ll see by clicking on the link to Monday’s Citizen Journalism unconference — there are, among other things, podcasts, blog links and notes of the sessions — the event was a terrific success. About 100 people spent a long day in conversation about some of the key areas that today’s and tomorrow’s citizen journalists […]

After its ridiculous cover headline claiming that Digg.com’s founder has “made $60 million” — based on valuations, not cashed in for real money, by unnamed people “in the know” — Business Week is still refusing to acknowledge its goof, as Scott Rosenberg’s notes in a trenchant post: Now the magazine can either publish a correction, […]