Backfence's Mark Potts: We're reevaluating our strategy
Following my post summing up some of the buzz around local citizen journalism effort Backfence after the recent layoffs, I asked co-founder Mark Potts to...
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Trouble at Backfence?
I’m not one for spreading rumour and hypotheses bordering on guesses, but there’sthere has been little else to turn to when it comes to the...
"The hatemongers stormed the gates"
The local newspaper the Sun-Sentinel is facing critisism for allowing “racist stereotypes, slurs, and sentimental references to slavery and lynchings”. Bob Norman writes: This summer,...
Newsrooms posing the wrong question?
An interesting post by Steve Yelvington highlights some of the questions newsrooms are posing – and should be posing – today. In a discussion about,...
Weekly media study to include more than a hundred blogs
More than a hundred blogs are to be included in a new weekly media study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), writes USA...
Dan Gillmor's media predictions for 2007
Dan Gillmor is a wise man in the citizen media world, so it’s with interest I read his media predictions for 2007. They are about...
Placeblogger – a new hub for hyperlocal blogging in the States
A new site covering local and hyperlocal blogs has launched. Placeblogger.com is presented by Dan Gillmor’s Center for Citizens Media, Jay Rosen‘s PressThink and Lisa...
Slow change in the newsroom
Mark Glaser summarizes what he’s found when asking people how the change from “old” to “new” media is going in their newsroom. An interesting read....
On comments to articles and community building
Tucson-based Arizona Daiy Star’s site azstarnet.com has decided to remove the possibility to comment on many of their articles. Debbie Kornmiller, Readers Advocate, writes: This...
From Rocketboom to the newsroom
Amanda Congdon has landed a job at ABC News. The former vlogger star will keep up her usual Rocketboom style in the short news clips...
A small step for some, a giant leap for an old giant
The old and renowned New York Times hasn’t been known for being in the forefront when it comes to embrasing citizen/social media. Therefore the new...
Berkeley webcasts feat. Howard Rheingold, Seth Gitner and others
The Winter New Media Lecture Series, a US Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Knight New Media Center and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation initiative,...
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