Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

You’ll find them — including instructions on what channel to set the TV (Fox News; you had to ask?) and what temperature to set in the room (apparently the veep and staff don’t know how to work the thermostat) — in Dick Cheney’s Suite Demands. Makes you proud, doesn’t it?

The BBC’s Rhod Sharp points me to “Portrait of a flashover,” in which New Orleans resident Gibbons Burke, armed with a digital camera and sound instincts, covers a fire. Sample from the text: It appears firefighters are in the house from what look to be flashlights shining in the window, but this is a reflection […]

The L.A. Times picked up on an interesting thread from the State of the News Media 2006 report, released last week. L.A. Times: A “new paradox of journalism” has emerged in which the number of news outlets continues to grow, yet the number of stories covered and the depth of many reports is decreasing, according […]

Tom Evslin: AT&T is Ripping Off American Soldiers. It’s bad enough that they overcharge domestic customers but we have alternatives. The soldiers don’t because, according to The Prepaid Press, AT&T has an EXCLUSIVE contract to put payphones in PXes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, you ask, can’t the soldiers get cheap calling cards to call […]

I’ve started a column for BBC News — this one is the first, an introduction to what citizen media is all about and why I think it’s important. The piece has drawn lots of responses on the BBC’s “Have Your Say” forum, and I’ll be responding online to some of the questions and comments.

I’m at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication with a bunch of online journalists, of many stripes and motives. The one-day conference, held under the auspices of the Online Journalism Review, is not a bunch of lectures and panels but rather a collection of discussions. OJR will be covering the sessions in […]

I’ll be in Washington next Monday-Wednesday, speaking Tuesday at the Politics Online conference at George Washington University. If any bloggers or citizen-media folks are interested in getting together, send me an e-mail at dan.gillmor (at) citmedia (dot) org.

It has not been reported very well outside Southeast Asia, but Thailand is in political upheaval with protests over Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra‘s sale of Shin Corporation to Singapore’s government investment arm, Temasek Holdings, under dubious terms. People have taken to the streets in protests over the past few weeks calling for his resignation, with […]

The American Press Institute’s Media Center Blog “Morph” has posted a few interesting examples that suggest mainstream media organizations might be open to trying new things. If these experiments are any indication of a developing trend, it looks like traditional newspapers might finally start to use new technology, multimedia, and the myriad of cool web […]

I’ll be giving a talk on Monday, Feb. 13 at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. It’s the first in a series of conversations on citizen media this winter and spring at the University. Here’s a summary for Monday’s talk: As technology collides […]