Archive for 'Citizen Network'
Community Training in the Ecosystem
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
One function that runs throughout the entire ecosystem is the role of community training — both in editorial coverage and ad sales. The New News Organization plays an important role here as an outlet for experienced, professional journalists to train local bloggers and citizen journalists how to cover their communities with more depth, detail and […]
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New York Times Trains Local Youth in Blogging Workshop
Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
by Mike Reicher What do you get when seasoned professional journalists train novice teenage bloggers in the tools of the trade? We’ve started to answer that question this summer at The Local, The New York Times’ collaborative blog covering neighborhoods in Brooklyn and New Jersey. Since launching in March, one of our goals at The […]
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An Iranian Journalist’s Invaluable Cause
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
Every journalist deserves to get paid for bringing new information to the public. Especially those who face direct opposition from foreign military regimes. This morning I heard an NPR piece titled ‘Bureau Tehran,’ Live From Massachusetts. The subject of the story was Iranian journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, who runs her news site Tehran Bureau from […]
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Rapporteur Wrap-up – Ben Wagner for Networking Group
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Ben Wagner on behalf of the Networking Group. If “the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of endpoints,” then one task as digital journalists is to scale our networks — be they organically-grown, hyperlocal blogs or corporate-driven, international communities — as quickly and effectively as possible. In a […]
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Ed Sussman: Fast Company Launches Social Networking Bonanza
Posted on 18. Feb, 2008 by David Cohn.
“When editors are going to assign a story we typically think about different elements that go into it; who is the writer, who is the photographer, do we want a video or a podcast or any kind of poll? Now we ask an additional question: what is the community aspect?” I met Ed Sussman briefly […]
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Gannett's Story
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Juliana Bunim.
Gannett’s Story with Jennifer Carroll of Gannett and MacKenzie Warren and Kate Marymount of the Ft Myers Press CROWD SOURCING — Ft. Myers enlisting their community in their journalism. Explored how FEMA distributed aid. FEMA was forced legally to turn records over. FMP has the infrastructure to enter the records into their database and turn […]
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International developments
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Matthew Sollars.
10:32 Moderator Neil McIntosh of the Guardian kicks the panel off with introductions of panelists: Adrian Monck of City University of London’s journalism education program. He has launched a collaboration with Sky News developing a group of citizen correspondents and a resource that allows the public to track their FOI requests.
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Mike Orren – Pegasus News
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your Work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. President and founder of Pegasus News, which launched in DFW in 2006. We’re a “panlocal” site, meaning that we deliver hyperlocal news and data on an entire metro area. We then customize that content for each individual user via a mechanism called “The Daily You.” We use a hybrid of […]
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John Oppedahl
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. My experience has been in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and publisher (Detroit Free Press, Dallas Times Herald, L.A. Herald Examiner, Arizona Republic, San Francisco Chronicle) so the closest I’ve come is in helping to develop two websites, AZCentral.com for The Arizona Republic in Phoenix and SFgate.com for […]
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Emily Gertz – Worldchanging.com
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I’m a freelance journalist and editor, working primarily with web publications. Since early 2004 I’ve been a writer at Worldchanging, a leading sustainability news, views, and information blog; currently I’m the Interim Managing Editor of our “global” site, as well as editor of Worldchanging NYC. I also work as a […]
