Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

Crosscut Seattle “seeks to reinvigorate local journalism in the Pacific Northwest.”

JD Lasica points to some excerpts from a public conversation he and I had last week in Palo Alto: Citizen media: Where is it heading? (Hat-tip to Elliot Margolies, director of the Community Media Center for his hospitality and technical work at the event, and for posting the clips. His center is doing amazing work.)

This morning we’re happy to announce a new project, “Principles of Citizen Journalism” — a look at the key principles that we believe are at the basis of journalistic work for professionals and non-professionals alike. The project was supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The principles also appear as part of […]

Jay Rosen and his crew at NewAssignment.net have launched AssignmentZero: How the Web makes it possible for the crowd to be the source of good ideas. But instead of one journalist reporting, we’ve created a site where many people can work on the story, with editors as guides. It’s a great start to a project […]

I’ll be sitting down in a public conversation with JD Lasica next week in Palo Alto, kicking off the Mid-Peninsula Media Center’s new Conversation Series. If you’re in the area, please stop by.

LA Times: Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics. Payments by advertisers to bloggers for writing about their goods, critics say, blur the line between opinion and product placement. This is not a close call. To take money for touting products in a blog and not disclose it — prominently, and in context — […]

It’s called “triangle.com community sharing,” operated by the Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer. It doesn’t resemble the newspaper at all, which is smart.

New Orleans Times-Picayune: News photographers denied access to LHSAA’s girls state tournament. Several newspapers, including The Times-Picayune, were denied access to photograph the state girls high school basketball championships Monday night when they refused to sign a document limiting the right of newspapers to resell their photos to the public. If I was the editor […]

For the past several years, in every talk I’ve given about what traditional journalism organizations could do to involve communities in the reporting, I’ve suggested a “Pothole Map” — a mashup where citizens post the location of street potholes. Bakersfield.com has done it — well, part of what I suggest. The other part would be […]

I’m at the Beyond Broadcast conference in Cambridge, Mass., where MIT professor Henry Jenkins, author of the important recent book Convergence Culture, was keynote speaker. I’ll be co-heading a workshop latger about the future of public-access television — the channels on local cable systems that carry locally generated programming, generally by non-professionals. Jason Crow, access […]