Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

The Knight Foundation is seeking new ideas, pilot projects, commercial products and leadership initiatives that will improve the flow of information and news in the public interest. This is a HUGE opportunity for all kinds of citizen journalists. Go for it, folks.

I spent part of yesterday at a small conference organized by WGBH, the huge Boston-based public broadcasting operation. The topic under discussion was “open media,” which means different things to different people. The ground rules were no blogging, which presumably meant not covering what other people said. A few thoughts, however, about what I told […]

Jay Rosen has announced that Reuters has given his new project enough money to hire someone as an editor for NewAssignment.net. This is a great endorsement for Jay and his work.

SF Chronicle: Bail revoked for journalist in contempt case. Freelance journalist and activist Josh Wolf is heading back to jail after a federal appeals court on Monday ordered his bail revoked unless he changes course and gives a federal grand jury outtakes of footage he shot at a violent San Francisco protest in July 2005.

Congratulations to our Berkman Center colleagues at Global Voices Online, who have won the grand prize in the 2006 Knight-Batten Awards. To say “well deserved” is an understatement.

Wired News notes the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with Birth of the Blog, an observation that blogging got its biggest boost with that tragedy. Indeed it did. The attacks and their impact on media were integral to my 2004 book, We the Media. I was in Africa when the attacks occurred, and followed […]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has posted a roundtable discussion, Charting the Online Revolution. I’m a participant.

Wired News: Digg Fights Top Users For Control. Some of the generals in Digg.com’s army of volunteer news readers are in revolt over new abuse controls that could undermine their influence on the site.

Rebecca MacKinnon praises a new site called Interlocals.net, a “multilingual platform for citizen dialogue.” It’s impressive, and has great potential.

Doug Fisher has created a 75 page manual/journal of the effort to wrap a citizen journalism layer around a traditional paper: When we started it with funding from J-lab, we promised a “cook book” that would give other smaller papers considering such projects a road map of what to expect and how to handle some […]