A Phd researcher recently contacted me to ask some questions about citizen journalism (after the project I did at BBC News Online and my general blogging about citizen journalism. Now that I’ve had some time to think and reflect on those activities, I was happy to try and give her some answers. After having spent [...]
So, this week I’m working on a project that I thought up a month or so ago: to dedicate a week to writing citizen journalism, with the help of a news organisation. It might seem like an odd thing to do – most bloggers and Wikipedia type contributors do it in their spare time, but [...]
The whole of London (and bits of the rest of the world, it seems) has been following the story of the whale that managed to find itself lost in our river Thames. Much has been made of the role of the public in reporting this story. It’s a good example because it happened in a [...]
An article in the Independent’s MediaWeekly yesterday commented on how tourists played a vital role in reporting on the Asia tsunami [link now dead]. “Never before has there been a major international story where television news crews have been so emphatically trounced in their coverage by amateurs wielding their own cameras.” The article mostly focuses [...]