In a post titled Senate Testimony on Future of Journalism, Google’s Senior Policy Counsel Pablo Chavez states: Later today Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search Product and User Experience, will take to Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet about the ways innovation can help preserve journalism and […]
Twitter and Citizen Journalism: Perfect Together — Twittering the Sawmill Bar and Grill Fire
As discussed in the first post on my blog, Twitter is one of my favorite social networking sites, because it is a simple, yet extremely robust, platform for information exchange, learning, collaboration, and, at times, mundane conversation–all in real-time. Being a social networking site, you create all of your content (aka "tweets"), up to 140 […]
Obama Kills Citizen Journalism
I have lost my voice since Barack Obama became President. Gone are the halcyon days of Bush and Cheney when every day brought a new sense of outrage and the irrepressible desire to write. I look back with longing to that marvelous feeling that I was making a difference by speaking out against stupidity. How I long to write an […]
A Newspaper Turns into a Blog, and Other Experiments in Online Journalism
Rocky Mountain News published its final issue on Feb. 27, 2009, becoming the largest paper to succumb to the newspaper industry’s economic challenges and evolution to digital. Wondering what had happened to the Rocky writers’ unpublished stories, NPR’s “On The Media” discovered that several of the writers were publishing their pieces on a site called […]
If We Didn’t Build it, They Wouldn’t Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered
If We Didn’t Build it, They Wouldn’t Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered – The Harsh Reality of the New World Media, By Robert Paisola Over the past two years, the way in which American’s receive their news has changed. No longer does the father come home, kick off his shoes, and read the day’s events […]
How Can We Distinguish Credible Citizen Journalism?
This week our peers at the International Center for Journalists ask the most crucial question facing citizen media: how to separate the wheat from the chaff? Jessica Weiss writes: For the most part, citizen journalism remains unedited and unfiltered. But some Web sites are trying to change that. Citizen media site GroundReport, for instance, was founded […]
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