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The Teaching Online Journalism blog does a review of the McIntosh Mirror, a citizen journalism blog that covers the tiny town of McIntosh, Florida, population 430.

Here is more about from the MacIntosh Mirror blog:

The primary purpose of this blog is to accurately reflect what happens in town public meetings and dispel rumors. I record the meetings and make them available for download. One of the goals of this blog is to offer residents a place to voice opinions.

It is run by Cher Phillips, who lives in McIntosh and is a senior at the University of Florida majoring in Journalism.

By the way, if you know of similar operations Jan Schaffer’s J-Lab wants to know. Here is the survey, and this is what the J-Lab is looking for:

Are you a reader of or a contributor to a community news web site created by citizen journalists? J-Lab would like to hear about how you do it and how you use the site.

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