New Blog to Educate Citizen Journalists
Steve Outing at Poynter’s e-Media Tidbits writes:
Fellow E-Media Tidbits contributor Amy Gahran has launched a new initiative aimed at educating “citizen journalists” and helping the news organizations that are attempting to work with them. It’s called I, Reporter, and her partner in the project is A. Adam Glenn, former senior producer with ABCNews.com.
The I, Reporter folks write:
We’ll be covering:
How is citJ being done in the US and around the world, by whom?
How might it affect society, communities, and the media business?
What are the ethical, legal, social, and professional issues and how might they be approached creatively and constructively?
What do citizen and professional journalists have in common, and where do they clash?
What do audiences think of citJ?
Behind-the-scenes discussion of our own citJ projects
Tips, opportunities, pitfalls, and other practical tidbits
CitJ questions worth pondering.
