From ebiquity, a citizen media/citizen journalism timeiine:
- 2007, September: Google News recently announced partnerships with Reuters and AP to host stories directly on Google.
- 2007, September: English version of Wikinews reaches 10,000 articles according to Wikipedia.
- 2007, August: Google News to include comments from people in news.
- 2007, August: NY Times Select Content to be free.
- 2007, April: News stories ranging from earthquake reports to heroic rescue efforts are breaking news on Twitter. IMHO, this is an exciting development.
- 2007, July: NowPublic, a social media news site is named as one of the 50 best websites by Time.
- 2007, March: AssignmenZero meets Wired to connect journalists with citizens.
- 2006, December: Yahoo and Reuters launch YouWitnessNews.
- 2005, November: Alive in Baghdad, a weekly video blog posts the first video.
- 2005, July: Pictures of London Bombing from Flickr were being used on several news sites.
- 2004, November: WikiNews launched as a project by Wikimedia foundation.
Good partial list, though too slanted toward major media and it needs to extend further back to capture the launch of Wikipedia, Slashdot, Metafilter and KenRadio.com. And certainly the launch of Ourmedia (the first video hosting and sharing site) in March 2005 and YouTube on Dec. 15, 2005 (it was in private beta starting in May 2005) were significant milestones, but perhaps this is a difference in defining citizen media vs. citizen journalism.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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