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The toxic culture of the newsroom
Jay Rosen pointed me to a piece by Amy Gahran. Is the newsroom its own worst enemy?"Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work....
Citizen Journalism and American Politics
Jeff Jarvis (CUNY & BuzzMachine) moderated an exciting panel this past Friday night on “Citizen Journalism and Politics”. It’s one of the best panels I’ve attended in a while. Jeff... Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned
"In 2006 Rosen began conceiving of a vast project that would entail a large number of both professional and amateur contributors. In November, Rosen flew to San Francisco to meet with Wired News editor Evan... Wiki Innovators Rethink Openness
This is the first piece of crowdsourced journalism produced by the Assignment Zero project - a collaboration between Wired and NewAssignment.net - and a huge group of both professional and amateur contributors and...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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AssignmentZero: Calling All Culturites!
As some of you may know, I’m very interested in emergent citizen
journalism initiatives that are pushing the idea forward in exciting
and dynamic new ways. I’ve been involved with the NowPublic.com site...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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The Principles of Citizen Journalism
The good folks over at the Citizen News Network have just launched a very timely project that outlines essential principles of citizen journalism
to "help citizen reporters master the fundamentals of the craft in...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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1151 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
All the World’s a Story: Wired 'Borrows' a Few Ideas from NowPublic
The New York Times is reporting today on a recently announced partnership between Wired Magazine and NewAssignment.net to create the citizen-driven, or ‘pro-am’, journalism news site AssignmentZero....
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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700 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
Jimmy Wales Gives Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search
Following Cory Doctorow's talk about 2 weeks ago on, "The State of the Copy Fight", Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gave a lecture during Evan Korth’s Computer’s and Society course at NYU on "Free... Placeblogger brings blog searches hyperlocal
Lisa Williams, PressThink and The Center for Citizen Media are three presenters of Placeblogger, layering geography over the Net. This site - touting 700 blogs currently in its database - uses Drupal...
created by mediarevolutionary | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Journalism goes pro-am
"Reuters is giving $100,000 to NewAssignment.Net...to launch next year with others who think there is something to the idea of open source journalism, where people collaborate peer-to-peer in the production of editorial goods. The money from Reuters will underwrite the costs...Woodward Revelations Deepen Crisis in Journalism
It has not been a good year for journalism. Last month, Jay Rosen said that the New York Times was no longer the paper of record, having ceded that position to the Washington Post. But now star Post reporter...
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