Debating the value of citizen journalism
August 9, 2005
NPR’s Talk of the Nation aired a debate on the pros and cons of citizen journalism. Listen to the segment here, which includes opinions from: Marc Glaser, columnist at the Online Journalism Review; Vin Crosbie, president and managing partner of Digital Deliverance; John Temple, managing editor of the Rocky Mountain News; and Kyle MacRae, managing director and founder of Scoopt.
Collaborative editing for New York Times op-ed piece
August 6, 2005
Internet entrepreneur Joi Ito describes how he wrote an op-ed piece published in today’s New York Times: “Initially, I had thought that I would only be able get this done if I disconnected my computer from the Internet. In fact, the Internet turned out to be a valuable resource in getting my head around my thoughts and then getting feedback from a bunch of eyeballs on the text.”
Larry Kramer on CBSNews.com and media transparency
August 1, 2005
CBS Digital Media President Larry Kramer discusses the relaunch of CBSNews.com (it’s much improved, by the way, so check it out), the network’s new plans to become a 24-hour digital media network, and the soon-to-be-launched CBS News “Public Eye” blog.
Times readers got 42,384 e-mail responses in past year
July 23, 2005
In the first year of Daniel Okrent’s service as New York Times Public Editor (Dec. 1, 2003 to Dec. 1, 2004, he received 88,075 e-mail messages, according to The New York Times’ internal newsletter, TimesTalk.
“Of these, 42,012 were spam and from Nigerian billionaires; 8,981 went unanswered beyond an autoresponse because they were not directly related to Times coverage and were simple thank-you?s, copies of missives to the White House or adorations of profanity.”
“Times readers, however, received at least 42,384 e-mail responses to queries about the paper and its coverage and 146 hard-copy letters. And Times staff members made themselves available, on deadline or not, for more than 7,942 messages inspired by readers? queries.”
Participatory journalism experiment
July 19, 2005
Technology Review senior editor Wade Roush recently conducted an experiment in partipatory journalism, by inviting readers to help him with an article before it is published in print. He created a blog “as a place to preview the article, invite comment, and stimulate debate.” The fina. article will be published in the August issue.
CBS News announces 24-hour Web strategy, media transparency blog
July 12, 2005
CBS News plans to expand CBSNews.com to create a 24-hour, multi-platform digital news network, including a streaming news channel, a video player with access to the live channel and 25,000 hours of archives. CBS also announced plans to create a new Weblog “designed to provide greater openness and transparency” into the network’s newsgathering.
“This represents a significant shift for CBS News,” said CBS News President Andrew Heyward. “We are redefining the mission of CBS News and the people who work here to meet the demands of a 24-hour digital universe. In addition to producing award-winning television and radio news programming, beginning today we are transforming our 24-hour newsgathering capability into a true on-demand news service on the Internet — dedicating our worldwide resources to providing competitive breaking-news coverage and distinctive original reporting, analysis and commentary to a young and growing audience of news consumers. And importantly, our new blog presents a wholly new effort at transparency in the newsgathering process.”
‘Inquirer’ to introduce ‘radio-style’ programming online
June 30, 2005
The Philadelphia Inquirer is launching a massive new project which will give every reporter and columnist for the newspaper a Web page where readers and journalists can interact about the day’s stories.
Gillmor: Mainsteam, citizen journalists must learn from each other
May 29, 2005
In a speech Dan Gillmor has prepared for the World Editor’s Forum annual conference in Seoul this week, Gillmor says competition between mainstream mass media and with people in the emerging citizen journalism sphere can make all journalists better at what they do…. and offers some tips.
News & Record’s citizen media plans
May 25, 2005
The Los Angeles Times is the latest to report on the much-watched experiment by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., to use the Web to better tap the community. Aside from the dozen or so blogs launched, the paper is planning to integrate citizen journalists into the Web site within the next three to six months.
TVPhotogBlog: Inside the world of television photojournalism
May 19, 2005
Chris Weaver, a photojournalist at Fox 8 WGHP in High Point, N.C., writes to CyberJournalist.net to share his TVPhotogBlog, where he writes — independent of the station — about what it take to do his job. “As I build this site I will share the photos and the stories of the past 11 years, and each day as News continues to happen.”
A fascintating look inside the world of television photojournalism.
He also passes on another TV cameraman blog,of a colleague of his at WGHP, “Viewfinder BLUES by Lenslinger.”
Two other TV journalist blogs worth checking out: Lights..Cameras..Jackson; Newshutr’s Views; and Little Lost Robot.