Citizen Journalism

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Stevie Wonder Soundtracks Obama's Near-Stunner in Ind.

The Uptake | Posted May 8, 2008 | Off The Bus


The Uptake

From The UpTake

Citizen Kate got with some of the just-under-half of Indiana that voted Obama on Tuesday. Stevie Wonder led the chorus at a rally in Indianapolis:

What...

Caught On Camera: GOP Tosses Journalist

The Uptake | Posted May 1, 2008 | Off The Bus


The Uptake

From The UpTake

Minnesota's Republican Party seems... camera-shy. Over the past several months, Republicans have prevented journalists from recording their candidates at events. The latest incident saw reporter Gavin Sullivan...

American Public Media's Center for Innovation in Journalism

Craig Newmark | Posted April 19, 2008 | Media


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Craig Newmark

Hey, the folks at American Public Media are doing some really good new stuff:

American Public Media's Center for Innovation in Journalism is spreading a new model that turns newsrooms and the audience into partners. Public Insight Journalism means: Stories that matter because they come from those living the news; Reporters...

Citizen Journalism: Can We Trust it?

Tom Alderman | Posted April 17, 2008 | Media


Tom Alderman

"'Citizen Journalist' Broke Obama Story," reads the headline in the Los Angeles Times. The 'citizen' is HuffPo blogger, Mayhill Fowler. The story is the exclusive recording and article about Obama's 'bitter' bite from his speech about small towns - which became as ubiquitous on TV screens as "Law and Order."...

OffTheBus On Bittergate: A Roundup of Initial Responses

John Tomasic | Posted April 15, 2008 | Off The Bus


John Tomasic

In the wake of the OffTheBus Mayhill Fowler story that ignited a media storm this weekend over Barack Obama's comments on working-class voters, many of the OffTheBus community contributors-- unpaid volunteers all-- expressed their thoughts on the story and its interpretation across the media landscape. The story prompted some...

Guerrilla Bloggers and the Old Elite

Erik Ringmar | Posted February 14, 2008 | Media


Erik Ringmar

Last Tuesday, CNN fired Chez Pazienza, a producer for American Morning, for maintaining a blog. Yes, that's right. CNN, a leading news channel, sacked one of its journalists for exercising his First Amendment rights. Catch the CNN bosses in the daylight and you know what they'll say. "Of course...

Citizen Journalists, Start Your Engines!

Dan Froomkin | Posted December 4, 2007 | Politics


Dan Froomkin

Bloggers and other citizen journalists have a new and exciting opportunity to find and shed light on stories the mainstream media are missing -- by combing through transcripts of recent Congressional oversight hearings. Without any fanfare, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has started posting preliminary transcripts of many...

Covering the Paris Riots from the Inside

Conor Friedersdorf | Posted November 28, 2007 | Media


Conor Friedersdorf

What news coverage of the Paris riots needs is citizen journalists who live within the troubled suburbs and are willing to contribute, anonymously or not, to a blog or a newspaper Web site or any other forum that lends insight into the mindset and tactics of the rioters.

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Announcing HuffPost's Polling Project: Putting Polling Under a Microscope

Arianna Huffington | Posted November 20, 2007 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

The impact of polls and polling on our political process continues to be one of the unexplored stories of the 2008 race.

Take the remarkable gap -- chasm, really -- between the widening lead national polls continue to anoint Hillary Clinton with and the current dead heat in Iowa and...

NY Times Looks At "Raw And Fresh" Campaign Reporting From OffTheBus.net

NY Times   |  KATHARINE Q. SEELYE   |   October 30, 2007 11:49 AM


Every day, it seems, someone is trying to harness the power of the Web to cover the presidential campaign in a new way and give voice to people who are usually shut out of the process. We've seen all kinds...

 

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