Here’s entry No. 5 for Videoblogging Week. A little while back I interviewed Debbie Galant, editor and co-founder of the North Jersey publication Baristanet.com, one of the most successful of the 800-plus citizen media sites in the nation. They’re pulling in close to six figures a year, and Debbie tells how they’ve achieved that level […]
Citizen media
Jarah Euston on FresnoFamous
Here’s video #3 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia). I talk with Jarah Euston, one of my fave people in the world of citizen media. Jarah is the co-founder of FresnoFamous.com and ModestoFamous.com, which she sold to McClatchy newspapers shortly after this interview. We talk about some of the issues that a citizen […]
Ethan Zuckerman on citizen media’s global scope
Here’s video #2 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia): An interview with Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of the international blogging site Global Voices Online. The video is part of the Center for Citizen Media’s Principles of Citizen Journalism project. I spoke with Ethan at the Ideas Festival about the global scope of citizen media. […]
Citizen media: Where is it heading?
Elliot Margolies, director of the Community Media Center in Palo Alto, Calif., just posted three video excerpts from the appearance Dan Gillmor and I made there last week as part of their new Conversation Series. Here are the three videos Elliot just posted to Ourmedia: Ourmedia’s birthday and history: Me talking about Ourmedia’s second anniversary. […]
Principles of Citizen Journalism project launches
Today we’re unveiling a new project, Principles of Citizen Journalism, at the new Citizen News Network (run by the Knight Foundation) and at Dan Gillmor’s Center for Citizen Media. I had a hand in the project, which lays out the underlying foundations of what it takes to do journalism, whether by amateurs or professionals. "Principles" […]