Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

Ethan Zuckerman, my Berkman Center colleague, writes: Increasingly, it strikes me that there are three types of netizens I want to hear from: – folks who are in the right (wrong) place at the right (wrong) time: the commuter in the London underground when the bombs go off; Gnarlkitty, as she visits demonstrations surrounding the […]

Jack Slocum has created a brilliant WordPress comments system using a Yahoo toolset. This is an example of how people are creating impressive new things by linking technologies.

Doc Searls offers great ideas to newspapers. Most won’t listen.

Jason Calacanis has written a very tough piece about an operation called PayPerPost, a company that has gotten serious venture-capital backing for a “service” in which bloggers are paid to write about products — but are not required to disclose their financial interest. We should generally abhor this kind of marketing. It encourages us to […]

Jon Dube is all over it, too.

Don’t miss his Slashdot interview.

I’m in a conference room in Washington today with academics, several new-media entrepreneurs and folks from some major media organizations. We are here to discuss the changing nature of journalism, including how to preserve high-quality work while the business model seems to be crumbling. An odd thing happened during the first session, in which I […]

Slowly, but surely, the traditional media are beginning to get it. In a new example, the Indianapolis Star has discovered a new source of expertise, namely its readers: We rarely if ever ask for the public’s help when we research an important issue such as operation of the Marion County coroner’s office (now under investigation […]

Gary Kebbel at the Knight Foundation (which is funding one of our projects) wants anyone who’s interested in community journalism to consider applying for a grant. The program is called the “Knight Brothers’ 21st Century News Challenge,” and here are some details from an email: The purpose of the challenge is to fund new community […]

Over at PBS MediaShift, Mark Glaser offers Your Guide to Citizen Journalism, including a very kind mention of our work here.