From time to time, students send me questions about new media, participatory journalism or online journalism, and I post and archive the answers on my blog. Here’s the latest, from Zoe, a college student in the United Kingdom: Does interactivity affect your journalism, if so how? Absolutely. First, it leads to better, more careful reporting. […]
Citizen media
‘Bush in 30 Seconds’ finalists
MoveOn has announced the voting results of its wonderful grassroots political commercial project, “Bush in 30 Seconds.” Here are the top 15 finalists. With over 2.9 million votes cast for more than 1,000 entries, MoveOn says, “They perfectly capture the grassroots approach to politics we’re pioneering together.” If you’re in the New York area next […]
A business model for citizen journalism?
Steve Outing writes in E-Media Tidbits today: The concept of “citizen journalism” is getting a lot of people excited. Proponents of it, such as Advance.net’s Jeff Jarvis, have suggested that citizen journalism is a huge business poised to take off. One of the first companies to try to make a buck from this is GetLocalNews.com, […]
The blogger as citizen journalist
Blogger Lisa Williams: The blogger as citizen journalist. In which a blogger in the Boston area bemoans the lack of coverage given to local news topics by a chain of corporate dailiies, and offers suggestions on how local residents can take up the tools of community publishing. Among the topics covered: • What is a […]
Employee blogs silenced at Tampa Tribune
CyberJournalist.net reports on three more personal weblogs that have been silenced after apparent clashes with the old media mindset that continues to reign supreme in newsrooms. The latest casualties took place at the Tampa Tribune. Excerpt: Tom Mangan reports on his Weblog that three Tampa Tribune Webloggers have ceased blogging — one after pressure from […]