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- WTF, California???
- Civil rights activists gather in New York City to protest Proposition 8.
- Videos 2008-11-14
- Is Citizen Journalist Coverage of a Plane Crash More Important Than a Plane Crash?
- By now, I assume everyone has been thoroughly drenched in plane crash coverage. (Please forgive the standing-on-the-wing-of-a-plane-in-the-Hudson pun.) Well, try this on for size: last night when I Googled the term "plane crash", Google News placed two stories about citizen journalist coverage of the plane crash above the plane crash...
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
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- AllVoices Aims to Become Citizen Journalism Source for Media
- The citizen-journalism site AllVoices has launched a syndication service aimed at attracting professional journalists and publishers to leverage the content from its 150,000 contributors in 167 countries around the world. "We want to become the citizen journalist site of choice, the "iReport" for the traditional media...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Citizen journalism website gets multi-million-dollar boost
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — NowPublic announced Monday that the fast-growing citizen journalism website has scored 10.6 million dollars US in financing to fuel its drive to become the world's largest news agency. The Vancouver-based start-up says it is growing at a rate of 35 percent monthly and has nearly...
- Research articles 2007-07-30
- False Steve Jobs Report Shows Hazards of "Citizen Journalism"
- Even the most ardent advocates of "citizen journalism" had to feel shaken by today's events on CNN's iReport, where user posts are carried unedited and unfiltered.This morning somebody fabricated the following story:"Steve Jobs was rushed to the ER just a few hours ago after suffering a major heart attack. I...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Examiner.com buys citizen news site NowPublic
- The hyperlocal news market — also known as citizen journalism — is heating up with another acquisition, this time of Vancouver-based NowPublic by Denver-based Examiner.com. The two companies announced the deal on Tuesday. Examiner.com, a company that provides hyperlocal news and information supplied by semi-amateur contributors in more than 100...
- News items 2009-09-01
- AllVoices Adds Twitter Data to its Citizen News Reports
- As anyone who's ever tried to build a company from the ground up can attest, you have to keep tinkering with your business model if you're going to have a shot at success. It's not enough to simply have a great idea, a good url, a strong team and a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Citizens media: has it reached a tipping point? New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel 'shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.'.(Citizen Journalism)
- First off, let's address one thing: Citizen journalists don't particularly aspire to be called "journalists." That's a label mainstream journalists often apply when writing about this mutating media ecosystem. Many citizen media folks are First off, let's address one thing: Citizen journalists don't...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- 'YouTube Direct' Designed for Citizen Reporters
- With the advent of "citizen journalism," anyone with a camera, an Internet connection, and a few questions can become a member of the fourth estate. But how do you know if this reporting is accurate? YouTube on Tuesday introduced a new portal, dubbed YouTube Direct, intended to provide news organizations...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Quebecor Tests Model, Encourages Citizen Journalism: On-Line, Print, Television Media Collaborate in Multimedia Effort.
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 28, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Quebecor Media announced today it will be moving forward with an experiment in new media content, building on the strengths of on-line, print and television, while opening the door to "citizen journalist" contributions and feedback. ...
- Research articles 2006-03-28
- The News is NowPublic: Cit-J Site Sold To Anschutz's Examiner.com; Price Around $25 Million
- You’re reading it here first: After several months of trying to get the deal done, Citizen-J site NowPublic is about to be sold to a non-traditional buyer: local news network Examiner.com, which is controlled by Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group, we have learned. The price is around $25 million...
- External links 2009-09-01
- YouTube Offering B.A. in Journalism
- Well, sort of. Did you know that YouTube has set up a Reporter's Center? Described as "a new resource to help you learn more about how to report the news," it has quietly been ramping up since its April debut. YouTube must have seen fit to promote...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- The Rise of the Non-Profit News Model
- There have been a lot of creative efforts to re-energize serious journalism lately, especially from the non-profit perspective, with the latest being a $5 million grant from a local philanthropist to set up a new Bay Area news bureau in San Francisco. A group of former newspaper...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Local News for the Global Age
- Unless we collectively can figure out how to leverage technology to sustain local reporting, the global potential of the worldwide web will remain under-realized. Why? Because, all news is local, to paraphrase/mangle longtime Speaker of the House "Tip" O'Neil's most famous statement about politics. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Former Canadian newspaper publisher Russell Mills, who was fired for printing criticism of Prime Minister Jean Chretien, has been awarded one of journalism's most prestigious fellowships. (People & Places)
- Former Canadian newspaper publisher Russell Mills, who was fired for printing criticism of Prime Minister Jean Chretien, has been awarded one of journalism's most prestigious fellowships. In August, Harvard University said it had awarded Mills a Nieman Fellowship, giving the former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper a year to...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- LA Fires: Images and Video from Around the Web
- Here in Los Angeles, CA the weather has been sunny with a chance of fire for the past week as no less than eight major blazes are sweeping through the state. Both major and citizen media alike have been providing critical coverage of the 2009 LA fires,...
- News items 2009-09-01
- London images earn Nokia awards.(News)
- The harrowing image of destruction following the July 7, 2005, terrorist attack in London captured with a camera-phone garnered the third-place prize in the 2006 Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards. The image was taken by Alexander Chadwick just after The harrowing image of destruction...
- Research articles 2006-07-24
- Citizen journalism and the BBC: '... when major events occur, the public can offer us as much new information as we are able to broadcast to them. From now on, news coverage is a partnership.'.(citizen journalism)
- On July 7th, when terrorist bombs exploded on London subway trains and a bus, it was a day of intense pressure for our news teams to get things first, but more importantly to get things right. Our initial indication that we were facing more than th ...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- AllVoices to Adapt Twitter's Method to Gather Global News
- As Twitter ascends to the stratosphere as the communications channel of choice -- and there's no stopping it now -- media types can't be blamed for wishing there were some easier ways to separate out, say, what our dear fellow Twitterers may have had for breakfast, from significant breaking news...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- False Steve Jobs Report Shows Hazards of
- False Steve Jobs Report Shows Hazards ofRE: False Steve Jobs Report Shows Hazards ofGood point, Antonio. There is a balance between avoiding hoaxes and holding mainstream media accountable. I should research how many incidents of each type we've experienced in the past decade. But my hunch is CNN, LAT, NYT,...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
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