Archive for November, 2009
Basic Twitter Links for Journalists
In May 2009 web and technology buff Patrick LaForge joined several active Twitter users at The New York Times and gave a series of presentations to the newsroom on how to use the microblogging service for journalism. The result is Basic Twitter Link for Journalists.
Amanda Lindhout Released
Great news! Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, freed after 15 months of captivity in war-torn Somalia, says she was kept isolated in a dark room, beaten and tortured, so she dreamed of walking through Vancouver’s Stanley Park to stay sane and not lose hope.
“My day was sitting on a floor in a corner 24 hours a [...]
MaYoMo – Map Your Moments
MaYoMo ( Map Your Moments ) is a video-centric social news network for mobile citizen journalism. They accept contributions from citizen journalists, bloggers, journalism students, experienced independent journalists and NGO’s from all over the world.
This is like a global news village. If I hear about something happening in France I can log on to [...]
Little Camera Is a Big Idea
Shree Nayar has dedicated much of his computer science career to improving the way cameras take pictures. Four years ago, he decided to move in a new direction: to design a camera that could improve the way children learn about science and one another. He came up with a prototype as sleek as an iPod [...]
Journalism 4th most stressful job
From CNN Money.
Every minute is another deadline for those who report and write the news. While racing against the clock, reporters gather data, conduct interviews and analyze their findings all before writing about major events for a newspaper, magazine, radio show or television program. That was before everyone was expected to shoot and edit videos.
First [...]
Top 50 Journalism Blogs
The list of top fifty journalism blogs includes blogs that focus on citizen, or grassroot, journalism, personal blogs from professional reporters, journalism school-supported blogs, blogs on a new media focus, organizational blogs and self-professed bipartisan resource blogs that provide primary resources for investigative writing. Pulished by Journalism Degree.org.
When citizens are journalists
“I would trust citizen journalists as much as I would a citizen surgeon.”
- 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer
It’s not quite so simple. Citizen journalism, as it pertains to newsgathering, has evolved to be more about collaboration between citizens and journalists than citizens replacing journalists, http://www.thestar.com/opinion/publiceditor/article/725107–english-when-citizens-are-journalists Toronto Star columnist Kathy English.
This collaboration is “the best of [...]
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