Tag: Citizen journalism
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Simply put: civic journalism worked. Readers and viewers got it. We learned that if you deliberately build in simple ways for people to participate — in community problems or elections — many will engage. Particularly if they feel they have something to contribute to the problem. (via If audience engagement is the goal, it’s time…
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The finding that sharing is more common than newsgathering is not an entirely unexpected or new development. A 2011 national survey on local news behaviors found that 25% of adults share links to existing local news stories or videos, while just 5% contribute original articles, opinion pieces, photos or videos about their local community online.…
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Demotix plus openDemocracy a new model for journalism
Editor-in-chief of openDemocracy Tony Curzon Price, commenting on the Demotix site, echoed the sentiment “we’re rebuilding the media, piece by piece – Demotix’s citizen journalist collective and openDemocracy’s open-source analysis and commentary will bring new media and new models into a mixture of text and picture that is not just a replacement, but better than…
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Deep Throat Meets Data Mining: Algorithms and Humans Adding Value
On a disaggregated Web, it seems, people and advertisers simply will not pay anything like the whole freight for investigative reporting. But Hamilton thinks advances in computing can alter the economic equation, supplementing and, in some cases, even substituting for the slow, expensive and eccentric humans required to produce in-depth journalism as we’ve known it.…
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ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout
ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout. From pro to am, journalist to citizen journalist, here is a resource from the nonprofit ProPublica that puts transparency into the bailout process. From a widget that lets you see if your bank is getting money, to a timeline showing how got where we are now, to a searchable…
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Citizen Blogging Boosts Zimon into Local Politics
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Story from womensenews.org By WeNews correspondent, Jackie Bischof Jill Miller Zimon’s citizen journalism — which includes monitoring Rush Limbaugh’s recent outreach to female detractors–has spurred her to run for a city council seat in Pepper Pike, Ohio. “Any resident can help make our city better,” she says. via Citizen…
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Hyperlocal Is Happening
http://searchengineland.com/hyperlocal-is-happening-16533 To be sure, concerns about lagging local advertising isn’t slowing mainstream news outlets from moving forward with a hyperlocal strategy. Early innovators such as the Journal-World (www2.ljworld.com) in Lawrence, Kansas, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver (YourHub.com) have led the way for established media companies to see hyperlocalism as a way to win…
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Journalism Education Should Be Media Literacy & More
Dan Gillmor, writing in MediaShift Idea Lab, asserts (and I agree 100%) that: Journalism educators should be in the vanguard of an absolutely essential shift for society at large: helping our students, and people in our larger communities, to navigate and manage the myriad information streams of a media-saturated world. via MediaShift Idea Lab .…
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Sustainable Journalism in the Age of Internet
Several years ago, I ran into Len Witt at Blog Nashville, where he caught my attention because he was a journalist who was trying out blogging with an open mind and he had a very solid commitment to the social responsibility side of journalism that was called “civic journalism” just before the days of Internet.…
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Ken Davis plans panel on Future of Journalism
I added the boldface, after all this is my blog. Mike Miner may be right about the panelists being more in the digital immigrant, rather than digital native, group, but I think this will be a good discussion and I’d like to see it be a kick-off of an effort to bring together old and…
Barbara K Iverson 