The Guardian published a story last week saying that the BBC will pay for some citizen generated videos. It was picked up other places as almost a sea change for citizen journalism from volunteer to mercenaries, even though the BBC was saying it will pay only in extraordinary situations.
Here is part of the BBC’s new […]
The Guardian published a story last week saying that the BBC will pay for some citizen generated videos. It was picked up other places as almost a sea change for citizen journalism from volunteer to mercenaries, even though the BBC was saying it will pay only in extraordinary situations.
Here is part of the BBC’s new […]
This announcement was inspired by a comment from Howard Owen to the short blog on Jimmy Wales critiquing citizen journalism. The announcement:
No One We Know Wants Citizen Journalism to Replace Professional Journalism.
Here is how Owen puts it:
Why, oh, why is the assumption that citizen journalism will replace “work-horse reporting?” This is the most oft-repeated red […]
Here is the opening of a Poynter E-Media Tidbits story:
It was surprising the other night to hear Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales critique citizen journalism — side by side with a traditional news editor who positively enthused over it…
he doesn’t see citizen journalists providing the “work-horse reporting” that professional journalists do. And while some kinds of […]
The last few days we have been talking about the fate of young journalists, but in the last post it was the young journalism school graduates who reminded us that if you have great communication skills you will do well in the future. Of course, that’s what we have been telling our students all along, […]
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.