Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

Sanjana Hattotuwa: The promise of citizen journalism. Often, this new age of citizen journalism lacks the grammar of age-old diplomacy and socio-political norms – the conversation is raw, visceral, impatient, irreverent, pithy, provocative. In Sri Lanka, it is a conversation that’s largely still in English, and also limited to urban centres. The potential of citizen […]

Reuters: User-generated content good for old media-report. Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says. Clearly true. But one big question is whether the media organizations will see […]

To creat the Tunisian Prison Map, Sami Ben Gharbia “pulled data from Human Rights NGOs report as well as a temporary list of Tunisian prisons prepared by Tsar Boris on TUNeZINE website.” Brilliant use of mashups, in a worthy cause.

The Media Bloggers Association‘s Bob Cox has relaunched a website for the organization he founded and runs. Lots of interesting new ideas here. Bob is among the people who are working hard to improve citizen media.

The sometimes correct prediction-makers at Gartner suggest that blogging will peak in 2007, AP reports: Could blogging be near the peak of its popularity? The technology gurus at Gartner Inc. believe so. One of the research company’s top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half […]

Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal, aka, The Numbers Guy, torpedos the nutty claims about a video that a marketing firm estimated had been viewed 900 million times: But the Viral Factory’s rankings, commissioned to publicize the launch of a U.K. television show composed of popular online clips, were little better than a guess […]

Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, gave a speech called “Trust in the Age of Citizen Journalism” — much to ponder here. Some of it is indisputable; some is definitely not so, such as his claim that “There is no local” in the Internet age. Some of the most interesting discussion is about how to verify […]

Pegasus News — long awaited in the citizen media community — has launched its news site. I’ll be watching with interest.

NewsTrust, where people rate the quality of news stories, has launched a beta site. The potential of this approach is terrific: community involvement in understanding how well journalists — including bloggers — do at their jobs (whether it’s a professional or amateur activity or something in between). Clearly, this is an early iteration. But the […]

After two fascinating days at the Nieman Narrative Journalism conference in Boston, I’m heading to SIME, the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event in Stockholm. Postings will be light until later on Monday. The Nieman conference, where I spoke, was fascinating because of the quality of speakers, which was outstanding, but also because the gathering’s theme — […]