As Thanksgiving approaches, perhaps we all should stop and give thanks that we have not, recently at least, made fools of ourselves quite as thoroughly as did Jackson (Tenn.) Sun editorial page editor Tom Bohs when he admonished "citizen journalists:"
"If your mother tells you she loves you, check it" [...]
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New Media Lab brings together nonprofits, citizen journalists, social media experts
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I'm at Day 2 of a remarkable two-day conference that is bringing nonprofits, citizen journalism and social media together in ways I've never seen before. [...]
BNO News, which achieved fame for the use of citizen journalists to report breaking news via its @BreakingNews Twitter service in 2007, has announced it will launch a paid-subscription wire service early next year. 
Olivia Ma on YouTube as a news channel from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
During the recent annual conference of the Online News Association in San Francisco, I had a chance to sit down (literally on the floor) with Olivia [...]
I have persuaded Jim Fishkin to put the introductory chapter of his important new book, “When The People Speak: Deliberative Democracy & Public Consultation” online. For those who think that the idea of improving the publish sphere by putting together citizens with varying political views in the presence of [...]
A MacArthur Foundation article titled Selling Museums to a Tough Audience: Teens describes a meeting where 23 leading museum people commiserated about the rejection of museums by the youth:
Even though this group was hardly the ostriches, they all grappled with the constraints of the current system—from physical structures to [...]
I am delighted to announce the public launch of the Berkman Center's Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono initiative that connects lawyers and law school clinics from across the country with online journalists and digital media creators who need legal help. Lawyers [...]
You've heard how government rank and file workers are working together, throughout the US and with citizens, to provide increasingly better public service. Their dedication has been consistently impressive, particularly during some bad years.
I've been chatting recently mostly with Federal workers, though the following is true of all large [...]
Allvoices, a citizen journalism network that uses a combination of algorithms and user feedback to assess the reliability of contributions, is to start a Provoices network for professional journalists, aiming to cover beats and [...] 
YouTube is releasing a new open-source interface called YouTube Direct that aims to make it easier for news organisations to have access to relevant clips from citizen journalists, it was widely reported. The application, to be unveiled today, will allow media outlets to [...] I’ve been interested in the public sphere for a long time, and I’m increasingly concerned about the amount of misinformation, disinformation, sloganeering, and brutal polarization among citizens. I grew interested in Jim Fishkin’s work long before I started teaching in the Communication Department at Stanford (Fishkin is dept [...]
Low literacy environments, and multi-lingual areas, like Grahamstown, South Africa, face particular challenges when it comes to encouraging citizen journalism. More than 80 percent of the population speaks English as a second language. While most people are able to speak and understand English, writing is not always a comfortable experience [...]
Tuesday's episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC featured a spirited debate between Paul Carr, author of the article NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth from TechCrunch, and Jeff Jarvis, CUNY professor [...] Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington hired him. But I think his [...]
There're a lot of people in government across America who passionately believe in the vision that they
should really serve the citizenry, and do a better and better job.
Candi Harrison is a recently retired Federal web manager, and she can freely express the gist of what [...]
Earlier today Howard Weaver tweeted the following, which I can’t answer in 140 characters (!) so I’ll respond here. …
“Why do people (@steveouting et al) keep saying ‘block level’ info is best premium opportunity? Seems *most* likely to be citizen generated.” –@howardweaver
I don’t recall saying it’s [...]
With the 2010 U.S. elections coming into view, many people are looking for more information about the people running for office -- and the individuals and organizations funding these candidates.
Fortunately, there are dozens of initiatives that mine and share the data that influence policy and policy-makers. Many are [...]
When Sen. Charles Schumer amended the Senate's bill to exclude unpaid reporters, bloggers, and citizen journalists from a proposed federal shield law, many in the Internet and journalism community were outraged. In the wake of the change, MediaShift published an article that argued Why Bloggers and Citizen' [...]
We're seeing something new from Washington, sites which are being used to help figure out how to better serve citizens.
Toward that ends we're seeing sites used to get ideas as to how to run agencies better, and how to improve fundamental processes involved in areas like acquisition, the purchase [...]
