Tim Porter stellt die wichtige Frage in Bezug auf den sogenannten"Citizen Journalism": Local News: Who is Going to Write for Citizen Me?

Our communities are horizontal, not vertical, meaning they extend across location. News of these communities is equally unbound by geography. Enabled by technology, members of communities of interest, be they soccer parents, political partisans or professionals (like the people who read this blog), fill their needs for news and information with publications of special interest, both print and electronic.

Newspapers, though, view the world as fixed. They divide life into vertical silos of topic and geography and, because they report from a traditional institutional point of view, define news as the stories that fit into those silos. It is function following form.

Modern communities are water, spilling across space and time. Newspapers are rock, hardened and stuck in one spot. In the war of water and rock, liquid wins every time.

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Tim Porter - First Draft: Local News: Who is Going to Write for Citizen Me?

COOL ! DANKE MATTHIAS !

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It‘s the year 2005 (1384 in the Iranian calendar). Welcome to the only English-language site for news and views about the Iranian election, co-authored by Iranians and non-Iranians. openDemocracy.net has invited leading Iranian pro-democracy journalists and bloggers from Tehran, Toronto, and Washington DC and beyond – to share their views on the 8th presidential elections as they unfold over the next weeks. The election is on June 17th, 2005.

Eine der Co-Autoren diese Weblogs ist Hossein Derakhshan. Das Weblog wird von openDemocracy gehostet:
Hier gehts zum
Weblog Iran Scan

ÖPDATE: ZumWeblog Iran Scan haben Hossein Derakhshan und Solana Larsen einen Artikel verfasst, der die Hintergründe des Projektes darstellt:

Iranian bloggers are uniting to post laser-sharp ideas on their country’s momentous presidential election in June. Solana Larsen & Hossein Derakhshan (“Hoder”) introduce openDemocracy’s new Iran project.



Blogging Iran’s wired election

Artikel von Torsten Gellner bei DW-World.de:

Die Bloggosphäre wird um prominente Stimmen bereichert. Eine ganze Armada von Stars wird künftig für die "Huffington Post" bloggen. Doch die Kritik ist sich einig: Eine publizistische Revolution ist nicht zu erwarten.

Mehr: Wird Gwyneth Paltrow ehrlich bloggen? (Quelle: DW-online )

The Beep team is made up of three Northwestern grad students working with the Daily Herald in an effort to prove that news, like science, can be fun. Somebody gave Daily Herald reporters their own blogs, and, well, see for yourself...

http://beep.dailyherald.com/

[Via Rich Gordon poynter.org ]

Weblogs schaffen im Iran eine neue Form von Informationsfreiheit. Und auch wenn die Behörden mit oft rüden Methoden gegen die Blogger vorgehen - wirklich kontrollieren können sie das Internet nicht

Mehr dazu bei Spiegel online: Teheran Bytes

Harry Shearer startet bei der Huffington Post mit einem Weblog: EAT THE PRESS



A little about the menu. The appetizers are what I like to call "Found Objects", pieces of audio and/or video that illustrate the news-making process at work. Media people have always delighted in presenting us with the incautiously recorded moments of politicians and celebrities; this section represents just a tasty bit of table-turning. These pieces are presented raw, and without unnecessary chopping, so enjoy.

Klingt schon mal vielversprechend ...

[Via: Dan Gillmor]

Interessanter Artikel in der NYTimes:

A blog rebellion among scientists and engineers at Los Alamos, the federal government's premier nuclear weapons laboratory, is threatening to end the tenure of its director, G. Peter Nanos:

New York Times: At Los Alamos, Blogging Their Discontent By William J. Broad

[Via: Social Media]

Le premier podcast hebdo de Point Blog: Point Blog startet mit einer wöchentlichen Pocast-Serie (Freitags). In der ersten Ausgabe:

Série 1 / Frédéric Montagnon - Gründer von Over Blog

Reinhören!

Tim Porter mit einer ausgezeichneten Analyse zur Zukunft der Print-Branche:

I didn't think, given the scrappy newsrooms from which I sprang, the day would come when I'd say the responsibility for the decline of newspapers as the principal platform for journalism is shared equally by the journalists and the publishers. But that day has come. Shame on you both.

Here is the litany of shame that echoes in newsroom after newsroom:

We don't have the money.
We don't have the time.
We don't have the people.
We have lousy editors.
We have lousy reporters.
We can't communicate.
We don't talk.
We don't listen.

Things were better when …

We had more people.
We zoned.
We didn't zone.
We had more money.
So-and-so was editor.
We did more (name your beat) reporting.
We did less (ditto).

Yes, my friends in the newsroom, there's less money and there are fewer people. That's not really your fault - although it wasn't TV news and the web and shifting demographics alone that drove the readers away. Boring stories, formulaic content and refusal to change with the times are all also culprits.

But, I am sorry, my friends in the newsroom, much of the rest is your fault. The journalism, the leadership, the mandate to reflect and engage your community, the necessity to make tough, but creative decisions in the face of conflict, as all industries must do from time to time - those are all your responsibilities and you have abdicated them.

[Via: Tim Porter - The Mood of the Newsroom ]

Das Echo blieb nicht lange aus, was Tim Porter natürlich zu einer Fortsetzung mit entsprechenden Kommentaren inspirierte: Mood in the Newsroom: A Nerve is Touched

ÖPDATE: Bei Jay Rosen - PressThink findet sich noch eine weitere Fortsetzung der Geschichte. (Jay Rosen hatte auch schon über den Eintrag von Porter geschrieben, siehe: Tim Porter Lets Out a Roar) Rosens zweiter Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Antworten von drei Journalisten zu Porters Vorwürfen: Mood of the Newsroom: Letters from Three Journalists [Via: PressThink]

Und auch Jeff Jarvis hat sich zum Eintrag von Tim Porter geäussert: The future of journalism is not its past [Via: BuzzMachine]