This from the UK’s Online Journalism News:
Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) - a US based electronic media public training forum - has released online an educational video about the history of citizen journalism.The 15-minute documentary Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog is a guide to US citizen journalism through the ages - from Thomas Paine in […]
Jeff Jarvis, at BuzzMachine and really everywhere else, wants to put the term “citizen journalism” to rest. He writes in the Guardian that:
…networked journalism is about much more than camera-phone pictures of disasters or stars. It can be about digging up news and keeping government honest. I used to call this “citizens’ journalism”, but I […]
I am reading the September issue of Wired, which is not yet online, and came across this quote from Dave Kusek, co-author of The Future of Music:
“The labels were never in the business of selling music. They were in the business of selling plastic discs.”
Of course, one could probably say the same thing about newspapers. […]
I just heard a talk on diversity by Carlton Usher, a professor at Kennesaw State University, and author of the recently published book “Rhyme is a terrible thing to waste : hip hop and the creation of a political philosophy. “
He tossed off a little saying that would be very apropos to the citizen journalism […]
Today in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution I have an Op-Ed piece that I originally conceived of with this headline:
Up Yours-We’re Not Afraid.
It tells would-be terrorists that I sense a change in America that is saying, stuff it, we are not afraid.
Now I am sure there are more polite ways of saying that, but I didn’t especially […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.