Like many opinionated rant online commentators about journalism, I get fairly regular e-mails from students asking for my comments on journalism, blogging and social media. Inspired by Jon Bernstein making his responses to one set of questions public, I’ve…
citizen journalism
A collection of 10 posts
Guardian launches Citizen Journalism platform: Guardian Witness
Joanna Geary: The GuardianWitness platform, and supporting iPhone and Android apps will help us to carry on this tradition. It will allow you to tell your story – by desktop or mobile – by submitting pictures, videos and text to journalists directly…
The media: under occupation
Laurie Penny: As more and more ordinary men, women and children without degrees in journalism acquire the skills and technology to broadcast text and video, the media has become another cultural territory which is gradually being re-occupied. Those on the…
news:rewired - Involving Users in Projects #newsrw
Warning: Liveblogging – errors and typos likely iVillage – Lulu Phongmany: Been around for 10 years without really talking to the community about what they wanted. Very different issues drive success in message boards as opposed to content. Content seems tool-based, forums…
An Alternative Form of Journalism
Liveblog of a talk by citizen journalism site OhMyNews founder Yeon-ho Oh. Some thought-provoking stuff.…