Topic: Citizen Journalism

When the Web Feeds the Newspaper
The letter ‘i’ in iHerald stands for ‘interactivity, the individual and the Internet.’
By Eric Blom

Looking Past the Rush Into Convergence
As technology drives big newsroom changes, what will happen to journalism?
By Edward Wasserman

Finding New People to Tell the Stories
‘… progress in democratizing journalism doesn't necessarily translate into more or better news coverage—at least not yet.’
By Craig Cox

Will News Find a Home on YouTube?
With little original news reporting surfacing on this Web site, ‘perhaps an important lesson learned is that tools don't make a tradesman.’
By Morris Jones

When the Internet Reveals a Story
‘The challenge for me was to get the story off the Internet and into print.’
By Seth Hettena

Defining a Journalist’s Function
In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.
By William F. Woo

Journalism as a Conversation
‘Only as an afterthought did it dawn on us that the audience is the real content on the Web.’
By Jean K. Min

Reconnecting With the Audience
‘What they say—not what we think—is what counts.’
By Clyde H. Bentley

Creating a New Town Square
‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’
By Leslie Dreyfous McCarthy

Citizens Media: Has It Reached a Tipping Point?
New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel ‘shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.’
By Jan Schaffer

Where Citizens and Journalists Intersect
‘The crucial leap will be helping our audience become involved in the process
By Dan Gillmor

With Citizens’ Visual News Coverage Standards Don’t Change
‘In an era in which digital alteration of images is increasingly easy, credibility is everything.’
By Santiago Lyon and Lou Ferrara

How Participatory Journalism Works
A journalist describes why and how ‘a news organization works with its audience to have that “conversation” that is news.’
By Steve Safran

Changing Equations in Investigative Reporting
An editor proposes that journalists seek new partners in their mission of monitoring those in power.
By John Robinson

Meshing Purpose With Product
Heeding the warning against forcing ‘existing quality standards into new technology,’ a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.
By Philip Meyer

Are Reporters Doomed?
Citizen journalism is here to stay. But in the rush to embrace new media we risk destroying the soul of traditional reporting.
By The Guardian

Are Journalists the 21st Century's Buggy Whip Makers?
Newspapers might vanish, too, if they continue to ‘dream of past dominance while taking their product and trying to fit it into their competitor's terrain.’
By William Dietrich

Bloggers Push Past the Old Media's Gatekeepers
From YouTube to The Huffington Post, new media ‘are upending the presidential campaign process and raising questions about journalism's place in it.’
By Tom Fiedler

Must-Read Books
By Jane Ellen Stevens

Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Became a Citizen Journalist
By Barry Parr

Fear, Loathing and the Promise of Public Insight Journalism
A journalist wonders whether the mainstream news media will adapt fast enough to their changing relationship with the public to survive.
By Michael Skoler

Citizen Journalism and the BBC
‘… when major events occur, the public can offer us as much new information as we are able to broadcast to them. From now on, news coverage is a partnership.’
By Richard Sambrook

The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?
By Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis