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Archive for September, 2005

Citizen Journalism Roots Help Times-Picayune

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Here is a story from Editor & Publisher how a paradigm shift occurred between print journalists and the Times Picayune’s online Nola.com. Part of the story says:
Much of NOLA.com’s post-Katrina success has come from the way the community of New Orleans has utilized it. “We’re a place where the community can tell its [...]

Civic Journalism Project Has Legs 10 Years Later

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

This from the Wisconsin State Journal:
SUN PRAIRIE -This school district east of Madison is launching the largest volunteer- recruitment drive in its history to attack a widening gap between the test scores of white and minority students.
Schools of Hope-Sun Prairie, which also aims to improve the achievement levels of low- income students, is patterned [...]

chicagocrime.org Wins $10,000 Batten Award

Monday, September 12th, 2005

The crime map chicagocrime.org has won the $10,000 Batten Award, but being an egotist I am more interested in the second place winner, which features the Wake Up Call conference we put on in San Antonio on August, 9, 2005.
David Dunkley Gyimah, a senior university lecturer and director of viewmagazine.tv and a panelist at [...]

Jeff Jarvis to Direct CUNY New Media Program

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

This from Monday’s The New York Times:
For some old-school journalists, blogging is the worst thing to hit the print medium since, well, journalism school. They may want to avert their eyes today, when Stephen B. Shepard, dean of the new Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, is to name [...]

More Examples of Citizen Journalism Media Sites

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Michael Tippett, founder of NowPublic.com., says:
“Citizen journalism is not the future, it’s the present.”
He adds:
“The big news organizations always say, we have journalism school grads and Pulitzer Prize winners and people trained in the craft. Fair enough, but you have two people on the story, and we already may have 20 or [...]

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