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• 26 Jun 09
  

  Tac Anderson

  Need to spend some time to read this but it looks very interesting.

  Citizen Juornalism GetOffTheBuss NCB

• 25 Jun 09
  

  Suzanne Malley

  media politics newmedia news blog community citizenjournalism

• 28 Apr 09
  

  Joanne Lowe

  citizen journalists emerging from Obama election campaign

  joanne

  • We didn’t try to replicate what traditional journalists do well. Instead, we
    focused on what traditional journalists couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do: cover the
    grass roots, and let those roots guide our coverage.
  • organizing thousands of “ordinary” (more often extraordinary) people to cover
    what was possibly the most important election of our lifetime
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  • • they delivered a range of information and perspective that is often ignored by,
      or inaccessible to, the press.
    • And we did it in an organized and centralized fashion, and with respect for
      journalistic standards of reporting and judgment
    • collaborative, crowd-powered methods of newsgathering that made some traditional
      journalists uncomfortable.
    • we could do what a single reporter or traditional news organization could not
    • figuring out what they were willing and able to do
    • viable pro-am model
    • mass amateurization” of journalism can provide real breakthroughs—not only in
      the democratization of news and information but also in bolstering the role of
      the media as a pillar of democracy
• 26 Mar 09
  

  Andrew Murphie

  journalism futurejournalism digitaljournalism 3000 mdcm3000

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