Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

David Erickson: Minneapolis Bridge Collapse & Citizen Journalism.

I’m leading a multi-day citizen-media workshop at UC Berkeley for journalists from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Postings will be light as a result.

Jeff Howe (Wired Magazine): To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work.

Sanjana Hattotuwa (ICT4Peace): Citizen Journalism and humanitarian aid: Bane or boon? The deep-rooted power of politicians in rigid social structures, casteism, a clientelist political architecture, rampant nepotism and corruption, among others, temper the progressive social transformation promised by the New Media and Citizen Journalism in particular. Scalability is another problem – projects that show great […]

Jeff Howe (Wired News): Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned Mark Potts: Backfence: Lessons Learned

In my keynote at last month’s OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism. To sum up: We’ve come a long way. There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters. Investments, from media organizations and others, are fueling […]

I’m heading to Austin today for the New Agendas in Journalism and Citizenship symposium at the University of Texas School of Journalism. My topic for a talk tomorrow night: “Media Literacy in a Media-Saturated Age.”

In country after country, people are trying fascinating experiments in citizen media. One of the pleasures of visiting other places is learning about some of them. At a conference where I spoke today in El Escorial, a town northwest of Madrid, I learned about Bottup, a citizen journalism site that, from the sound of it, […]

I’m doing an online chat today at ELPAIS.com, the website of the big Spanish daily newspaper. Readers will be sending questions and I’ll be answering them (via a translator). The chat takes place at 11 a.m. local time.

At the OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum, I’d planned to be posting regular updates. Unfortunately, the wireless system requires a download that only works with Windows, which means those of us using Macs are out of luck. South Korea got in bed with Microsoft some years back, and this is the result.