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Citizen Journalism

Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: My Lai, Evelyn Theiss, Citizen Journalism, War Wire, War, Ron Haeberle, Civilian Casualties, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seymour Hersh, Veterans, War Crimes, Soldiers, Army, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Ohio, Ronald Haeberle, Media News, U.S. Army, William Calley, Citizen Journalists, Media News
David Quigg

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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Shoestring Journalism

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Multimedia, Citizen Journalism, Mathilde Piard, Fox News, Nbc, Benjamin Drummond, Chris Tompkins, Journalism, Sara Joy Steele, Media News
Lee Schneider

When I was working at NBC and FOX News and ABC, we had helicopters, satellite uplinks, and video crews all over the world. Yet today, there are journalists doing much more with a whole lot less.

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Making Sense of the Hyperlocal Landscape

Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Rachel Sterne, Jeff Jarvis, Community, Media News, Media, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Groundreport, Hyperlocal News, Media News
Rachel Sterne

New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...

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Fort Hood and Social Media: Between Two Extremes

Adam Elkus | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Citizen Journalism, Techcrunch, Fort Hood Shootings, Media News
Adam Elkus

Crowdsourced news, the overhyped New York indie rock band of today's media world, has finally been brought down to Earth.

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The Good News From Our Citizen Journalism Project

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.05.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Future of Journalism, Claims Denials, Rape, Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Citizen Journalism, Denial of Coverage, Health Care, Healthcare, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News
Adam Clark Estes

One of the big questions about the future of journalism is whether the Internet can foster a new alliance between professional reporters and interested citizens. We're seeing signs that the answer is yes.

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Help Us Investigate: Bank Failures

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Cds, Capitalsouth, First-Citizens Bank, Fdic, Citizen Journalism, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Home News

Did your bank fail? Has that had an impact on you - whether in interest rates or something else? Do you work for a faltering or collapsed bank? Pro...

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Help Us Investigate Health Information Technology

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.03.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Electronic Health Records, Citizen Journalism, Health IT, Health Information Technology, Health Care, Eyes, Digital Health Records, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund will be covering the progress of health information technology reform. Are you a patient who has begun tracking...

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Help Us Investigate: Rating Agencies

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Fitch Ratings, Standard, Citizen Journalism, Standard and Poor, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Moody's, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund continuing to report on the causes and consequences of the financial crisis. Ben Protess, who published the fir...

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Citizen Journalism is Simply Not Enough

Chris Prevatt | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Non-Profit Journalism, Ideology, Right-Wing Media Bias, Citizen Journalism, Orange County Register, A New Page, Assemblyman Van Tran, Investigative Reporting, Norberto Santana Jr. Norberto Santana, Quachgate, Ocweekly, Media News
Chris Prevatt

Despite our best efforts, bloggers just don't have enough resources to meet the need for full time investigative reporting.

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Release 0.9: We're All Fact-Checkers Now

Esther Dyson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: FTC Bloggers, Fact Check, Citizen Journalism, Online Journalism, Bloggers, Media News
Esther Dyson

Spin, propaganda, and censorship persist in journalism, but with one big difference: Almost anyone can now operate as a reporter. How can we ensure that these self-nominated reporters respect the truth?

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Separating the Journalism Baby from the Newspaper Bathwater

Rob Kall | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Investigative Journalism, Media, Citizen Journalism, Blogging, Journalism, Bailout Newspapers, Bailout Journalism Industry, Media News
Rob Kall

If the US government invests directly in journalists, so that their writings and reports can be freely used by any media organization or site, that investment will yield big results.

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Passing Oceania

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Bob Cesca, Citizen Journalism, George Orwell 1984, Glenn Beck Fox News, Naomi Klein, William Gibson, Surveillance, China, China Human Rights, Arianna Huffington, Eyewitness Fallacy, Media Matters, Iran Protests, Media Criticism, Youtube, Glenn Beck, Gibson's Law, Nico Pitney, Big Brother, Media News
Matt Osborne

For all our worries about Big Brother intruding on our lives, Big Brother has no way to stop individuals from intruding on him.

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Online Journalism: How To Launch Your Own News Site

mashable.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology

Read More: Media Startup, Digital Media, Online Startup, Independent Journalist, How to Be a Writer, Citizen Journalism, Independent Journalism, Startup Journalism, Web Journalism, Online News, Journalism, How to Be a Journalist, Online Newspapers, Technology News

These bootstrapping indie journalists are learning to run their own small business, including tending to many details they never had to worry about be...

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Iran: Newly Published Protest Photos Document Election Brutality (Caution: Graphic)

washingtonindependent.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Citizen Journalism, Iran Protest, Iran, Foreign Affairs, Iran Election, Iran Photos, Iran Election Photos, Iran Protests, World News

As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, a trove of photographs most of which h...

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New Internet Manifesto Backed by World Economic Forum... and You?

Juliette Powell | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wikinomics, Wikipedia, Internet Policy, Breaking Media News, 33millionpeople, Citizen Journalism, Internet Manifesto, Davos, Cluetrain, Juliette Powell, Manifesto, Davos 2009, Dan Tapscott, Journalism, World Economic Forum, Politics News
Juliette Powell

A post by the World Economic Forum led me down the rabbit hole to a new Internet Manifesto on 'how journalism works today.' I wondered what Huffington Post readers would think of the top 5 declarations.

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HuffPost Readers' Incredible Wildfire Photos

Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Readers Photos, Wildfires, Readers Wildfire Photos, Slidehuge, Wildfire Photos, California Wildfires, Citizen Journalism, Station Fire, Green News

On Wednesday we asked readers to send in their on the ground photos of the wildfire in Southern California. The photos we received are amazing. Check ...

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Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iranian Uprising, Newspapers, Iran, Death of Newspapers, Fox, Digital Television, Media, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, The Times of London, Blogs, Television, Internet, Online, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Media News
Diane Francis

Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.

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Matthew Palevsky

"Obama The Anus Of America": Conservatives Riled Up By Health Care Reform Gather Along Bus Tour (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Protests, Town Hall, Health Acre Reform, Barack Obama, Slideshow, Hands Off My Health Care, Americans for Prosperity, Colorado Springs, Tea Party Patriots, Citizen Journalism, Eyes and Ears, Matthew Palevsky, Obama Health Care Initiative, Obama Healthcare Reform, Anus, Proposed Health Care Reform, Politics News

Two "Hands Off My Health Care" buses have been making their way across the country as the central organizational tools for the conservative group Amer...

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Conflicting Reports on Pakistan and Quality Reporting

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: News Trust, Spotlight on Pakistan, Newstrust, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Citizen Journalism, Wall Street Journal, Newshunt, Nwfp, Ee, World News
Matthew Palevsky

Thanks to over a hundred Eyes & Ears investigators who signed up through News Trust, we have highlighted some great journalism on the situation in Pakistan.

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Help Us Do Stimulus Spot Checks

ProPublica | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jobs, Stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Citizen Journalism, ProPublica Reporting Network, Department of Transportation, Politics News
ProPublica

We at ProPublica have designed a public reporting assignment to gauge the stimulus' progress to date. It is an ambitious -- but doable -- undertaking.

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The People's Revolution: My Experience in Citizen Surgery

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 08.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Morley Safer, Comedy and Satire, Humor, Citizen Journalism, Satire, Citizen Surgery, Humor and Satire, Comedy, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

"I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery." - Morley Safer, in a speech after receiving the Fred Friendly first amendment award from Quinnipiac University

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Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Tavis Smiley, YouTube Reporters' Center, Ethics in Journalism, Citizen Journalism, Katie Couric, Youtube, Nicholas Kristof, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Online Journalism, Eyes and Ears, Media News
Arianna Huffington

Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. That's why I was delighted to accept YouTube's invitation to do a video offering my take on citizen journalism for the site's new Reporters' Center. READ MORE London Diary: Gordon Brown's Obsessions, The Loyal Opposition's Cuddly Karl Rove, Bad Germs, and the Most Unusual Royal Honeymoon Ever I just ended three days in London that were like a cram session in British politics -- ranging from a conversation with Gordon Brown to dinner with Frances and George Osborne, the Tories' shadow chancellor. READ MORE Watch: Arianna on BBC's "Newsnight" Discussing How the Iran Uprising Is Impacting Journalism Watch: Arianna on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Discussing The Financial Crisis and the Sentencing of Bernie Madoff

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Unemployed In New York: Tell Huffington Post And Gotham Gazette Your Stories

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Congress, New York-New York, New York Vertical, Citizen Journalism, New York and Gotham Gazette, Gotham Gazette, New York, Eyes and Ears Huffington Post, Eyes and Ears, New York State Unemployment Rate, New York Unemployment, New York State Maximum Unemployment Benefits, Huffington Post, Ny State Unemployment, New York City News, New York News

The New York vertical is kicking off its first citizen journalism project with our news partner Gotham Gazette. Huffington Post New York plans to show...

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Watch Your Congressman:
Sign Up for the Health Care Investigative Unit

Posted 07.23.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: House of Representatives, Senate, Congress, Citizen Journalism, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes and Ears, Eyes & Ears News

Health care reform is rapidly moving into the spotlight of news media around the country, and Huffington Post needs your help covering the process thr...

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ABOUT HUFFPOST'S EYES & EARS

Posted 07.12.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: About Eyes and Ears, Citizen Journalism, Ee, Eyes & Ears News

Eyes & Ears (E&E) is the Huffington Post's citizen journalism unit -- a community of writers, researchers, and multimedia journalists committed to gen...

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