"The process of journalism should be participatory - and perhaps one way it can be made participatory is if the public has the opportunity to commission the journalism they want to see."This article is newsworthy because it provides an example of one way to fund citizen...
created by markmayhew | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago 43 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
For years now, Len and I have been trying to correct some of the misperceptions around 'citizen journalism'. This was the basis for a talk I recently did in Copenhagen and the subject of an...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 48 wks ago 320 views | 23 recommendations | 3 comments
"Sanjay Jha has been appointed South Asia Bureau Chief at NowPublic. He will be based in Delhi, where he would be reporting on Indian and South Asian affairs. NowPublic is a participatory news network that...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 571 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"Innovative but unproven": perhaps the most concise and perfect definition of the entire new media/web 2.0/user-gen/social medial landscape."Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has...
New York City based improv group Improv Everywhere is a guerrilla performance group that stages public "missions" (so called by founder Charlie Todd, from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre) meant to be...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 877 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
Man With A Movie Camera becomes Men WIth Movie Cameras? Or should it be "Manchester with Movie Cameras" ?In a crowdsourcey kind of angle on the classic 1929 Dziga Vertov film by "Man With A Movie Camera",...
created by kate | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 342 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I'm constantly amazed at the international reach of this story. here is the Middle East Times in Egypt talking about our deal with the AP:"SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA -- As picture-taking mobile telephones...
created by mtippett | 2 years ago 1090 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
merinews is the first participatory news portal of India, which provides a platform for people to report about the happenings around them. It offers a space for citizen journalists to voice their opinion on matters that they want to share with fellow citizens. There...
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It is now public..."For Immediate ReleaseThe News Really is NowPublic!NowPublic Closes 1.4 Million Angel FinancingLeading participatory news network raises one of largest angel rounds in the countryVancouver, May...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 3434 views | 3 recommendations | 6 comments
Beyond Broadcast confrence at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School - stay tuned for more photos/updates..."...explore the thesis that traditional public media — public...
created by meyers | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 738 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments