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When Charlotte Grimes took an in-depth look at Public Journalism back in 1999, she wrote:
The defining event for civic journalism is usually pinned to the 1988 presidential campaign, with its fixation on horse-race polls and focus on Gary Hart’s adultery, George Bush’s visits to flag factories and Willie Horton ads, and Michael Dukakis’ ride in […]

I started to write this as a response to a comment to RealityChecker who thought engaging the audiences, as I suggested in my open letter to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was not necessarily a good idea. We’ll start with this quote of his and go from there:
Should “we” turn everything over to the preferences […]

This from PressThink:

Today marks a key moment in the evolution of the Web as a reporting medium. The first left-right-center coalition of bloggers, activists, non-profits, citizens and journalists to investigate a story of national import: Congressional earmarks and those who sponsor and benefit from them….The partners in the Exposing Earmarks Project are the Sunlight Foundation, […]

The podcasts for the Citizen Journalism unconference are now posted. So are the podcasts from the Wikimania 2006 conference, including talks by stars like Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons, and Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks.

Technorati : Wikimania, citizenjournalism, citmedia06, podcasts Del.icio.us : Wikimania, citizenjournalism, […]

Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, fired a volley across the bow of citizen journalism today in the New Yorker, and I am sure the blogosphere is firing back as I write. He sets up his argument that citizen journalism advocates are aiming to take over professional journalism and demonstrates […]