Archive for February, 2007
Rather than maintain two blogs, I’ll be posting about citizen journalism at my main blog at onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com. Until we do another conference, this blog will be sleeping for a while.
Filed under: online journalism | Leave a Comment
Roy Greenslade writes:
“Residents in the New Hampshire town of Deerfield felt their affairs were not being adequately reported, so they started their own newspaper, The Forum. But that’s not the only innovation. The newsprint version is published only on an “as needed” basis, about four times a year, and then mailed to 7,200 homes. The [...]
Filed under: online journalism | Leave a Comment
Attendee Martin Stabe has written about the Citizen Journalism conference in this week’s Press Gazette. Sadly, his ‘Fleet Street 2.0′ column is not online these days (as he no longer works for PG full time, or oversees their website), so I can’t give you a link, but he broadly talks about people struggling to grasp [...]
Filed under: online journalism | Leave a Comment
So report Red Herring. Guess what? It’s cheaper than paying journalists.
Filed under: online journalism | 5 Comments
From the latest OPA mailing:
“A year and a half ago, Backfence was the darling of hyper-local citizen journalism, started by veterans Mark Potts and Susan DeFife and flush with $3 million in venture funding. But at the turn of the new year, there was trouble, as DeFife exited along with other executives, and co-founder Mark [...]
Filed under: citizen journalism | 1 Comment
