Spent 90 minutes on the phone today with Robert Cox, the president of the Media Bloggers Association. I’m on the Board of Directors and was one of the founding members of the nonprofit group, which now has about 1,200 members. Lots of cool stuff coming up: educational initiatives, liability insurance for bloggers, and more. The […]
Citizen media
McClatchy buys citizen media sites
McClatchy Newspapers, my old employer, today bought two of my favorite citizen media sites, FresnoFamous.com and ModestoFamous.com, founded by Jarah Euston. The sites are in cities where McClatchy operates daily newspapers. Congrats, Jarah! (pictured above with moi)
Trust in the age of citizen journalism
Tom Glocer’s blog: Trust in the Age of Citizen Journalism. Speech given in Tel Aviv by Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer: The world we live in today is one in which everyone is a consumer, everyone a distributor, everyone an aggregator, everyone a producer. News organizations must realize everyone is both a potential partner and […]
The demise of the professional photojournalist
Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen Media: The demise of the professional photojournalist. (Video above: UCLA police taser a student.) Excerpt: The pros have a problem. They can’t possibly compete in the media-sphere of the future. We’re entering a world of ubiquitous media creation and access. When the tools of creation and access are […]
Alliance for Community Media gathering
Had an engaging time yesterday at the Alliance for Community Media, Western Region, annual conference in San Jose, Calif. Spoke at ACM for the second year in a row. As I told the two dozen participants in the videoblogging session, ACM’s philosophy is more closely attuned to that of Ourmedia than nearly any other group […]