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Jay Rosen on citizen journalism at the Knight Center : A Blog Around The Clock
75 minute video
Killing straw men
"Paul Carr’s main point appears to be that citizen journalists can’t get stuff right, so they should shut up, and those that record events instead of helping to save lives should be ripped a new one. Yet his main assertions are unsupported by the facts, his interpretation riddled with holes and his straw men pathetically easy to demolish.
There are interesting debates to be had about technology, social media, citizen journalism and eye witness accounts, but sadly Carr’s post touches on none of them in any meaningful way. I am befuddled as to why people on Twitter are seizing on it as breaking new ground, as it simply doesn’t. "
YouTube - reporterscenter's Channel
Good site for practical information for citizen journalists
Citizen Media & the Iranian Protests: Exhibit A | DigiActive.org
One the big stories with regard to digital activism in Iran has been the use of citizen media to disseminate information about the protests (see references here, here, and here). The picture above, from the front page of today’s New York Times is putatively an image of the daughter of reformist cleric Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, but could just as easily be an illustration of the new media environment: no less than eight cell phones and digital cameras (red circles) are recording the event the New York Times reporter was photographing. (For a large version of the photo, click here.) It’s old print media and new digital citizen media juxtaposed in a single image.
Citizen Journalism: The Key Trend Shaping Online News Media - Introductory Guide With Videos - Robin Good's Latest News
Citizen Journalism has put democracy back in people's hands. An army of individuals with mobile phones, portable cameras, and blogs is rapidly replacing traditional media as a reliable and wide-ranging source of information. In this milestone report, Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman were among the first to try to explain what citizen journalism really is and why this bottom-up distribution approach could be the future of news.
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Citizen Journalism: The Key Trend Shaping Online News Media - Introductory Guide With Videos
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Citizen Journalism has put democracy back in people's hands. An army of individuals with mobile phones, portable cameras, and blogs is rapidly replacing traditional media as a reliable and wide-ranging source of information. In this milestone report, Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman were among the first to try to explain what citizen journalism really is and why this bottom-up distribution approach could be the future of news.
cybersoc.com: revealed: groundbreaking study of user generated content use at the bbc
# There are 5 main types of "UGC" and they fulfill 6 different roles within the BBC
# Journalists and audiences display markedly different attitudes towards the five types
# Technology is changing the volume, ease and speed of gathering news material and sources, but traditional journalism practices still important
# "UGC" at the local level is particularly interesting
# Overall there is support from the audience for the ways in which the BBC has been using "UGC"
# Specific calls to action are most useful for news gathering and when eliciting high-quality relevant comment
# only a small, select group of people submit "UGC"
# UGC should never be treated as representative
# significant barriers to participation: digital divide, social economic background, lack of impetus, and - most interesting for me - negative perceptions held by general audience of contributors
# contributors want a real world impact for the contributions - eg. "If it was going to b
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- There are 5 main types of "UGC" and they fulfill 6 different roles within the BBC
- Journalists and audiences display markedly different attitudes towards the five types
- Technology
is changing the volume, ease and speed of gathering news material and
sources, but traditional journalism practices still important - "UGC" at the local level is particularly interesting
- Overall there is support from the audience for the ways in which the BBC has been using "UGC"
- Specific calls to action are most useful for news gathering and when eliciting high-quality relevant comment
- only a small, select group of people submit "UGC"
- UGC should never be treated as representative
- significant
barriers to participation: digital divide, social economic background,
lack of impetus, and - most interesting for me - negative perceptions
held by general audience of contributors - contributors want a
real world impact for the contributions - eg. "If it was going to b
Susan Chira -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - Question - NYTimes.com
Indeed, we found Twitter to be an invaluable reporting tool during the Mumbai attacks, and linked to many tweets as we updated the story on the Web in real time. Twitter allowed us to see the attacks through the eyes of those experiencing it or witnessing it; it provided a sense of immediacy and detail that was hard to match unless we'd had a reporter trapped in the hotels themselves.
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Indeed, we found Twitter to be an
invaluable reporting tool during the Mumbai attacks, and linked to many tweets as we updated the story on the Web in real time. Twitter allowed us to see the attacks through the eyes of those experiencing it or witnessing it; it provided a sense of immediacy and detail that was hard to match unless we'd had a reporter trapped in the hotels themselves. -
Like many tools of the Web, Twitter, blogs and citizen journalists can be an important resource, but also present signficant challenges. Obviously, I'm biased because I'm a product of the mainstream media. But journalists in the mainstream media are expected to meet well-established criteria and standards. They go through training, sometimes in professional schools and sometimes on the job, which helps them make decisions about the reliability of information that are far more complicated than I think many citizen journalists, bloggers or Twitterers may realize. How do you weigh when a
source is telling the truth? How do you identify people's ideological agendas, and how that may color the information or opinions or analysis they pass on? When are you satisfied you have independently confirmed information or facts you are told to consider as a given? While of course we at The Times may stumble, and make mistakes, anyone hired here or sent abroad as a foreign correspondent has proven, again and again, that he or she understands those standards and can meet them. And The Times is an institution that can be held accountable for its errors.So let's take citizen journalists, bloggers, or even in some cases, Twitterers. I think for professional journalists the information they provide is great raw material. But before we can print it as fact, we usually have to sort through it and try to figure out how to verify it.
MediaShift . California Wildfire Coverage by Local Media, Blogs, Twitter, Maps and More | PBS
The last few days have shown that online resources, social media, and collaboration on the Net can make a huge difference in a natural disaster. As the wildfires have spread in Southern California, the evacuees and local residents have utilized the Internet not only to connect and get updated information; they have used it to tell their stories, share photographs and video of the fires with the outside world.
Probably the most heartening aspect of the online coverage is the way that mainstream media and individual citizen journalists have worked together
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The last few days have shown that online resources, social media, and collaboration on the Net can make a huge difference in a natural disaster. As the wildfires have spread in Southern California, the evacuees and local residents have utilized the Internet not only to connect and get updated information; they have used it to tell their stories, share photographs and video of the fires with the outside world.
Probably the most heartening aspect of the online coverage is the way that mainstream media and individual citizen journalists have worked together
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It stretches from local news sources to video on YouTube to photos on Flickr to message boards on Craigslis
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Citizen journalists will bring the what, while professionals bring the why | The Journalism Iconoclast
hen you think about the power of citizen journalism, and how increasingly news stories will break first by everyday citizens instead of by professional journalists, one has to ask how much resources should news outlets dedicate to covering breaking news?S
Mobile Phones and Citizen Journalism - MobileActive Wiki
Mobile citizen media has emerged as a powerful form of citizen journalism. While there are many titles for this new form of journalism, such as mobile citizen media, mobile citizen journalism, and mobile reporting, the basic concept is the same: everyday
Capture Of Mumbai Terrorist Caught On Cell Phone (VIDEO)
FOX News sister network Sky News has obtained exclusive footage of the moment security services captured the man said to be the only surviving terrorist behind the Mumbai attacks.
The footage, which was captured on a mobile phone,
Citizen Journalists Provide Glimpses Into Attacks - NYTimes.com
Mr. Shanbhag, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, said he had not heard the term citizen journalism until Thursday, but now he knows that is exactly what he was doing. “I felt I had a responsibility to share my view with the outside world,”
Following Mumbai Attacks via Social Media — contentious.com
Right now, the Indian city of Mumbai is reeling under coordinated terrorist attacks. In addition to mainstream news coverage from India and around the world, Internet users are sharing news and information — including people in Mumbai, some of whom are at
Nassau News
Nassau News
A Community Journalism project by the School of Communication at Hofstra University
iRevolution
Seeing that I was in Nairobi during the election violence, I chose Kenya as a case study to assess the role of citizen journalists in crisis environments as compared to the mainstream media. My colleagues Kate Brodock, Briana Kramer and I used event-data
Biodun Iginla's BBC News Weblog: Citizen Journalism: A Primer--Biodun Iginla's BBC News Blog
Citizen Journalism: A Primer--Biodun Iginla's BBC News Blog
Peter Shankman's "If I Can Help a Reporter Out"
Welcome to Help a Reporter Out!
You're reading the "I AM A SOURCE" page. If you're a JOURNALIST who's LOOKING for sources, click here.
This list was originally conceived on Facebook, but since Facebook caps group emails at 1,200 people, this is the next
Josh Marshall on Community Funded Reporting « “Community Funded Reporting” Spot.Us
As it turns out - community funded reporting played an integral role in Josh’s formative years as a blogger. If you just want advice on how to make a good pitch, skip to 4:30, but the discussion leading up to that specific advice is very enlightening as w
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production
Axel Bruns n Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production, he takes a systematic look at the collaborative and open news-production models that characterize various websites - in particular weblogs - and asks Is this journalism?
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