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NAA White Paper Gives Overview of Citizen Journalism

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Mark Toner writes an interesting  white paper for the Newspaper Association of America entitled: Citizen Journalism and Newspaper Sites: The Revolution will be Uploaded. It is a fine overview of what is happening, and includes topics like Beatblogging, Citizen Witnesses, Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Teamsourcing and our own Representative Journalism.
Here are a few excerpts:
Steve Yelvington, strategist for Morris DigitalWorks, talking of citizen […]

Posted in Citizen journalism, Community Journalism, Crowdsourcing, David Cohn, Gannett, Griff Wigley, Harnisch Family Foundation, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Locally Grown, Northfield, Reinventing Journalism, Representative Journalism, Social Media | 1 Comment »

Great Reporting Fellowship in Minnesota; Start Now

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Want the freedom to do high quality, ethically sound journalism in an inviting  atmosphere;  then this one-year fellowship might be perfect for you. Please spread the word, this will be a dream assignment for the right person.
 Help chart the future of local news and community. Apply for a Representative Journalism Fellowship. Leonard Witt, holder of the Robert […]

Posted in Bill Densmore, Chris Peck, Journalism, Journalism Business Models, Locally Grown, Minn, Northfield, Reinventing Journalism, Representative Journalism, feature writing, journalism jobs, literary nonfiction, public journalism, writers | 1 Comment »

State of the News Media 2008 — It’s More Troubled

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Here is the first sentence of the State of the News Media 2008 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism:  
The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago.
Here are highlights from the introduction (I will have more over the next couple of days):

Even with so many […]

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