The Fall 2003 issue of Harvard University’s Nieman Reports magazine has just come out (for those not in the know, the Nieman Fellowship is probably the most prestigious fellowship in all of journalism), and it contains what just may be the most comprehensive look at journalism and weblogs that has been published anywhere. Today I […]
Citizen media
An interview on citizen journalism
Michel Dumais, technology columnist for Le Devoir, a newspaper in Quebec, interviewed me by e-mail over the weekend on the subject of what he calls citizen journalism and what I call participatory journalism. He writes a journalism blog in conjunction with his newspaper column, and posted part one of our interview here, in French Canadian. […]
A series on participatory journalism
A few hours ago the Online Journalism Review posted what I consider to be my most important series of articles this year (not counting the book I’m working on). The subject is participatory journalism. The three-part package includes: • Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists • Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the […]
Blogger journalism
Just tripped across this example of first-person blog journalism from last week. Blogger Andy Baio reported on the elderly driver who careened through a farmers market just outside Baio’s office window in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 16. He had been walking down that street 20 minutes before. Baio described “the dead and dying” lying […]
Blogger-journalist story
Several months ago I read an item about a journalist who raised a few thousand dollars through reader contributions on his weblog to finance his trip to some location. I thought I blogged it, but now I can’t find it, and I need it for inclusion in a report I’m editing on participatory journalism. (And […]