OhmyNews startet mit Citizen Reporter Seminaren.

Wie aus Lesern dank Foto-Handies Reporter werden können.

Die dänische Regionalzeitung Aarhus Stiftstidende veröffenlticht ein Handy-Foto von einem Leser geschossen. Auf dem Bild zwei vermutliche Bank-Räuber, die auf die Eröffnung der Bank warten.

[ Via: Eric Poulsen - Poynter.org ]

It used to be, we waited for the news -- when the paper was plopped on our doorstep, when the show came on the TV. Now the news waits for us -- we get what we want when and where we want it. More news is good. Choice is good. Citizens controlling their media is good. Fragmentation is good.
Jeff Jarvis - Buzzmachine

Interessantes und ehrgeiziges "Participatory Journalism"-Projekt in Form einer Community-Zeitung:

The Bakersfield Californian has embarked on one of the most ambitious participatory journalism efforts to date in the United States, launching a community newspaper and Web site in which nearly all the articles and pictures are contributed for free by people in the community.

Since the first print edition of The Northwest Voice was launched May 13, more than 200 individuals have contributed articles, pictures and events, and revenue has grown 33 percent. In all, about 90 percent of the content on the Web site and in the newspaper is contributed by the community.

"In a world in which a growing number of readers are becoming publishers, we ignore this trend at our own peril," says Mary Lou Fulton, the publisher of The Northwest Voice and the New Product Development Manager for The Bakersfield Californian. "The open source model offers us a new way to connect with readers, to better understand their worries and joys, and to enable them to share some of themselves with the world. It gives readers a personal and emotional stake in our products, and I believe that is critical to the future of our industry."
http://www.northwestvoice.com/

Und hier gibt's die Erste Ausgabe als pdf. [Via: cyberjournalist.net ]

Mehr zum Thema Open Source Journalism und zum Projekt "The Northwest Voice":
http://opensourcejournalism.org/

Interessanter Aktikel bei Newsweek über die südkoreanische news-Seite ohmynews.com die nach dem Prinzip "every citizen is a reporter" funktioniert:

Critics from traditional news publishers in Korea charge that OhmyNews confuses message board posting with news, and that getting to the truth in any story requires painstaking reporting and editing by trained professionals. But OhmyNews’s audience—primarily in their 20s and 30s—may not agree. When some Yonsei University students recently met with a visiting reporter to discuss the future of news, one psychology major put it simply: “How can you ever get truth from one source? The Internet allows us to check multiple sources, to explore message-board postings, to debate issues with others—that is the only way to find truth. And besides, what good is information if you can’t react to it?” “We’re not stupid,” added a business student. “We know that there is a difference between a message board, a traditional journal and OhmyNews. But by putting them together, our understanding is better. We can piece together truth.”

Weiterlesen bei Newsweek: Is This the Future of Journalism?

Andrea Frantz hat eine "Public Journalism Education Group" ins Leben gerufen:

The Public Journalism Education group provides a forum for journalism educators and practitioners with an interest in civic or public journalism.

The discussions will primarily focus on issues and challenges facing journalism educators as they incorporate public journalism assignments and/or classes into existing curricula, brainstorming for solutions to such challenges, how journalism schools respond to the changing technological and social needs reflecting in the public journalism movement, and developing a research agenda for the immediate future.

This discussion group will work as an extension of the Public Journalism Education subcommittee initiated by the Civic Journalism Interest Group of AEJMC.

Man darf gespannt sein! :-) Hier gibt's die Details bei Yahoo Groups: publicjournalismeducators

[ Via: PJNet ]

Are you teaching an innovative course that touches on public journalism, citizens media, blogging or journalism in general? Want to share your ideas with a larger audience of journalists, students and teachers?
Kontaktieren Sie Leonard Witt von PJNet.

Veröffentlicht werden die Beiträge jeweils auf PJNet.Den Anfang macht Andrea Frantz, a communication professor at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Hier Nachlesen.

...so der Titel eines interessanten Artikels von Prof. Christoph Neuberger. Der Artikel wurde sicherlich hier schon gepostet, bin allerdings erst heute darauf gestossen:

Wie berichten Weblogs im Gegensatz zu klassischen Medien? Welche Ziele verfolgen Peer-to-Peer-Plattformen wie Slashdot? Betreiben Portale Journalismus? Eine Befragung untersuchte Arbeitsweisen und Selbstverständnis bei diesen neuen Informationsanbietern im Netz.
Vollständiger Artikel bei onlinejournalismus.de

Sollte man seine Leserinnen und Leser Fragen bevor man bestimmte Bilder in der Zeitung druckt? Die Greeley Tribune hat's getan. Chris Cobler Redaktor der Zeitung veröffentlicht die Ergebinsse dieser ungewöhnlichen Umfrage in seinem Blog.

Steve Outing dazu:That's a wonderful idea. Editors won't always have the time for seeking input before making a decision -- and of course they're not bound to abide by what they hear in public comments -- but this is a model I'd like to see copied. The more voices and perspectives heard, the less likely that poor editorial decisions will be made.

Und auch Chris Cobler wertete die Aktion als Erfolg: An Experiment worth repeating.
[ Via poynter.org - E-Media-Tibits - by Steve Outing]

Die API Media Center MediaMorphosis-Konferenz läuft. Hier einige Zitate aus dem Blog-Pannel:

Esther Dyson: Bloggers need to figure out what they are. If you're a journalist, you follow journalistic ethics regardless of where you publish. Bloggers need to figure out whether they are journalists or bloggers.

Howard Rheingold: The blog space is still very young. There is a self-correcting mechanisms that will deal with issues of fairness.

Jake Tapper: I don't trust all the bloggers. But maybe there is an opportunity to mimic some of the edge bloggers have without losing journalism values.

Larry Kramer: Newspapers don't have an exclusive right to create community. Other media can provide that function.

And finally, the question that Dan Gillmor has been asked for 187th time: Why do you do it?

His reply: "My readers know more than I do." Good answer.

Besprochen wurden allerdings noch eine Vielzahl weiterer interessanter Themen. Die vollständige Berichterstattung der Konferenz gibt's von Howard Finberg bei poyneter.org. Und hier gibt's das Konferenz-Weblog dazu.