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 citizen journalist?
• Local News Anorexia: Why Citizen Journalists are Neccessary
• What happens when a town has no functioning newspaper?
• Citizen Journalism’s biggest impact: Doing what the big guys can’t or won’t
• Citizen Journalists, Blogging, Money, and Professionalism
• Tools a Citizen Journalist Needs
• Limits of citizen journalism.
Great essay. Thanks to Steve Outing for the pointer.
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