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# City Bureau's "documenters" — a step in the right direction for citizen journalism
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2019/01/city-bureaus-documenters-a-step-in-the-right-direction-for-citizen-journalism/
- Published: 2019-01-27T21:57:16.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-27T21:57:16.000Z
- Description: A new take on citizen journalism makes a lot of sense.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: citizen journalism, city bureau

Interesting move from City Bureau to [develop its documenter scheme](https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/city-bureau-launch-new-tech-tools-to-empower-civic-engagement-/s2/a733566/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Local citizens can become a ‘documenter’ by [signing up for an account](https://www.documenters.org/accounts/signup/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), which profiles what local issues they are interested in covering and gauges their current ability in reporting.  
> 'Documenters' can then use the new City Scraper-powered website to toggle through upcoming events, filter by topic and area, currently extended into Chicago and Detroit.

This is a more interesting variation on the idea of "citizen journalism" than I've seen in a while. Bringing in more people to *document* events rather than *report* them starts to build out a new set of roles and responsibilities for both the professional journalist and the amateur contributor in an interesting way*.*

There are surely more interesting things to be done in the "always on, always publishing" age to work with others than just aggregating their tweets into articles. This seems like a move in the right direction - especially as its documenters are paid.