Ray Hacke, Citizen Journalism Editor at The Bakersfield Californian, says the newspaper is running about one “citizen journalism” piece a day five days a week, and one has even made the front page so far.
Ray Hacke, Citizen Journalism Editor at The Bakersfield Californian, says the newspaper is running about one “citizen journalism” piece a day five days a week, and one has even made the front page so far.
He discusses the newspaper’s efforts in this Q&A on Journalism Hope:
What impresses me the most, however, is how seriously the people who contribute stories are taking writing for The Californian. So far we have not had a single factual error to correct on the front page of the paper, and most of the time I’ve got writers calling or e-mailing me to either correct errors in their stories or hold stories until they can check a few facts. I had no idea what to expect when I helped get our citizen journalism efforts off the ground, but so far the response from our readership has been nothing but positive.
