Spot.us: Community Funded Reporting

"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...

The mythology of Citizen Journalism

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...

Press Release: Sanjay Jha joins NowPublic as South Asia Bureau Chief

"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...

Current TV Network Files For $100M IPO

"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...

Improv Everywhere and the art of the public disturbance

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...

Men With Movie Cameras

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",...

Internet users transformed into news reporters

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...

Citizen or Participatory Journalism by merinews

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...

NowPublic Closes 1.4 Million Angel Financing

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...

Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture

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...

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