Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

AFP: ‘Citizen journalism’ battles the Chinese censors. In the strictly controlled media world of China, “citizen journalism” is beating a way through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions. In one striking example this month, the Internet was largely responsible for breaking open a slave scandal in two Chinese provinces that […]

Heading to Seoul for OhmyNews Citizen Reporters’ Forum, the annual citizen journalism gathering. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with some of what’s going on in this rapidly changing sphere. Look for several reports.

Laura Fries: Street Brawl in DC: A Case for Citizen Journalism. People talk about citizen journalism, and they talk mostly of the elites – white soccer moms contributing play by plays of their children, pictures and videos galore; lawyers posting nuanced descriptions of the latest city council development. But this – sweat, fear, alleged police […]

The Huffington Post and NewAssignment.net are launching Off the Bus, a site where citizen journalists will help cover the presidential campaign. It’s off to a promising start with the hiring of Amanda Michel and Zack Exley, two young people who are old hands at political campaigns.

Journalism.co.uk did a nice job covering last week’s conference in London, including this posting about a talk I gave there.

I spent most of the day at the BBC in London, visiting with people in several departments about the organization’s online work. Then it was over to the Guardian for a brief chat with several folks. Tomorrow I’ll be at the NMK Forum, a new-media conference, doing a keynote talk on citizen journalism’s present and […]

At Poynter.org, Steve Klein discusses deals by niche sports sites YourMTB.com and YourCycling.com, which “have developed an innovative program to provide coverage for cycling races and events that allows competitors and/or spectators to blog, take photograph and shoot video.” Klein calls this “yet another lost opportunity for mainstream media, which simply lacks the resources to […]

7iber.com is a new citizen media startup in Jordan. The aim is to create: an independent web-based citizen-media news outlet from Jordan. 7iber provides original, creative and interesting content, seeking to better inform our audience of untapped Jordanian issues as well as providing local perspectives and first-hand accounts of news, politics, arts and culture.  The […]

Jay Rosen offers “Assignment Zero, Updated. With Initial Results”.

A startup in the U.K. called Yoosk has created a space for regular folks to ask public figures questions. Tim Hood, co-founder, says in an email: Yoosk users will submit and then vote on the best questions which will be ranked according to their popularity. We will take the most popular questions and send them […]