Hard times for bloggers and journalists in Sri Lanka
Living in Sweden, and especially taking an active part in covering and exploring social and citizen media, I take many things for granted. One is...
Tagged: Citizen journalism
Hyper local – Åsbro
I once more welcome Gitta Wilén as a guest contributor here at Citizen Media Watch. This time she has interviewed a hyperlocal blogger, Alf Fransson....
Gillmor: Experiment more!
Dan Gillmor has put together a ten point report of the state of citizen media today. While both a general audience and traditional media now...
Who can do citizen journalism?
After Magnus Ljungkvist received Nyhetspriset, a Swedish citizen journalism award presented by Politikerbloggen, criticism has been heard. He received the award for revealing that then...
Reports from the SJF debate on user generated content
I haven’t had time to write about the SJF panel debate on citizen media the other day, so I was happy to see that Media...
Geo-stories, the result of the Brighton multimedia project
In December I wrote about the multimedia project in Brighton which is a collaboration between the University of Brighton, Nokia, Ymogen and the BBC. Today...
Presentation and debate
I have a busy week coming up. Thursday I’ll give a presentation at Karlstad University on citizen media and how we work with participatory journalism...
OhMyNews goes 2.0
Next month the ground-breaking South Korean citizen media site OhMyNews will relaunch as “OhMyNews 2.0”. The new site’s aspiration is to attract 100 000 volunteering...
Congdon laughingly breaks the rules of journalism – gets fatherly piece of advice
Interesting piece by Daniel Terdiman on Cnet about Amanda Congdon‘s refusal to live by journalistic rules/standards, even after starting working for ABC News. there’s a...
Swedish citizen journalism/activism wiki launched
Today Oscar Swartz launched his Swedish citizen journalism wiki, for which he’s received funding from II-Stiftelsen. The name of the site is Digital Idag (“digital...
Al Gore brings Current TV to the UK and Ireland
Current TV, the interactive tv network founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt in 2005, has now launched its UK version. With air time on...
Citizen journalists banned from video reporting of violence in France
In France, neither filming nor broadcasting violent content is allowed for anyone else than professional journalists. This is the result of a law that’s recently...
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