Vancouver cops under fire for camera seizures

Vancouver police are under fire for their rough handling of a newspaper photographer during an incident where a man was shot.  The photographer surrendered his camera under the threat of arrest but later the...

CBS Launches 'EyeMobile' iPhone App for Citizen Journalism

It was only a matter of time before the big American media networks got on board the "citizen journalism" train and CBS is the latest to do just that. The network has lauched a 'cit-j' mobile reporting application...

Citizen Media and the law — freedom and risk

Last night I met Josh Wolf at the New Pamphleteers conference in Minneapolis.   There was a great talk on the legal risks and opportunities bloggers have.  Josh's notes are here."These notes were...

Why the mainstream media needs to engage with audiences

"The afternoon session at the Online Journalism Symposium focuses on the shift from passive audiences to online communities.Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com makes a compelling argument for engaging with audiences online. The Post’s strategy is smart -...

NowPublic cited as most likely to succeed

I was sorry to see Scribblesheet close its doors recently.  In these early days of participatory media we need lots of people trying lots of things.  John Ndege who ran the venture acknowledged the space's challenges but was very gracious in announcing his departure...

CNN steps up the fight for citizen media

CNN is setting up its own citizen media website at iReport.com.  The news giant started soliciting material from the public in August 2006, attracting some 100,000 submissions from the public.But only 10% of these were published by CNN, as editors handpicked the best...

Micropayments for citizen media publishers (why don't websites put dates on s...

This looks like big news, but citizen media sites will need to get a programmer to set up how the many small, tiny payments aggregate. I wish the item was dated, but it is from 2007 and mentions that the API from Amazon beta'd in August, so it seems current.The bottom line,...

"The Iraq war as we see it" : Seven U.S. soldiers speak

this is a really good piece of analysis of the strategic/political and military perspective of US policy in IRAQ."The claim that we are increasingly in control of the battlefields in Iraq is an assessment arrived at through a flawed, American-centered framework. Yes, we are...

Why the news is better when we make it

I dislike the term ' citizen journalist'. To me it has the cachet of a citizen dentist. But the research community is still using it and a new report has just come out on the topic. According to the study:"When asked what they found valuable about the citizen media sites...

Los Angeles Times: BrooWaha and Citizen journalism

Across the country "citizen newspapers" are springing up, full of promise, energy and atrocious spelling errors. They're largely written by unpaid, untrained and unedited citizen reporters, who say they "commit acts of journalism" more for kicks than out of a sense of...

Perspectives of Citizen Journalism in India

In this article Vipul Kant writes about citizen or participatory journalism, and their importance & role in democratic countries like India.  The scenario in the Indian media has been quite grim in the...

Future in Review: Citizen Media

From Dan Gillmor:"Dave Winer and I participated in a moderated discussion at the excellent Future in Review conference last month. Here’s the podcast (streamed MP3 file)."

JD Lasica & Internet Archive host Citizens Media Summit

This weekend thirty-six people turned out for the citizens media strategy session on May 14, 2005, beginning at the Rob Hill campground in the Presidio before we retreated to the warmth of the Internet Archive...

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