Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

Nicholas Lemann, dean at Columbia University’s journalism school, takes to the pages of the New Yorker to rehash the same old bloggers-v-journalists straw man, contributing practically nothing to this long-tired conversation, though he does come up with some interesting items from journalism history. The best responses: Steven Johnson, tired of this, too, briefly offers “Five […]

CNet says CNN wants some of the clips being uploaded to popular video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, to find their way to the cable news channel.

Here’s a page listing on-demand videos from the OhmyNews Forum held earlier this month in Seoul. (I was a speaker.)

As he explains on his Pressthink blog today, Jay Rosen has taken his biggest step yet into the world he’s been writing about for some time now. With the help of several grants he’s starting NewAssignment.net, based on this notion: “Reporter + smart mob + editor with a fund and backers get the story the […]

Please use this signup page for next month’s citizen journalism un-conference, to be held August 7 in Cambridge, Mass., at Harvard Law School. It follows directly on Wikimania, which ends the day before. Please check it out. Note: We have to keep the numbers fairly low for logistical reasons, so please let us know sooner […]

Lisa Williams: News2/WKRN, Nashville’s ABC affiliate, has a great ongoing experiment called Nashvilleistalking.com, where WKRN blogger Brittney Gilbert rounds up the best of the local blogosphere and beyond each weekday. Each weekend, the station pays $100 to a local blogger to keep the site ticking over Saturday and Sunday. The site’s most recent weekend host […]

Why are collaborative news, commenting and blogging sites such as Newsvine, Slashdot and Global Voices attracting users and visitors? Who are these folks? What do they want from their interactions? According to a just-released survey — “The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of News” — by […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: Inkyu Kong, a citizen reporter for three years with OhmyNews, has some fascinating perspectives on the success of OhmyNews in Korea as opposed to in other parts of Asia. His presentation offers some background thoughts on social forces in Korea, and case studies of OhmyNews versus JanJan, a Japanese citizen media site, […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: A second panel of citizen journalists – all reporters for OhmyNews – help diversify the picture of the people who report for the service. Several of the panelists have strong political views which have led them to their work as citizen journalists. Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian academic and journalist, who is […]

It’s truly amazing to be hearing the stories of citizen journalists from around the world here at the OhmyNews Forum. These folks have done an amazing job at getting a cross-section of the folks who are really doing this. (Huge frustration for me: I was hoping to interview a lot of these folks, but I […]