Die online-Zeitung RedPaper behauptet von sich, die ertse "collaborative" Zeitung zu sein. Eine Zeitung vom Volk für das Volk geschrieben quasi,....ein interessantes Konzept,... mal sehen ob das kommerziell auch aufgeht,...wie es sich die Initianten erhoffen:

RedPaper is the world's first collaborative newspaper, powered by people just like you. Buy breaking stories and insight posted by real people all around the world for just the change in your pocket.

Got the inside scoop? RedPaper gives everyone the ability to be a reporter, have your own column, post articles, name your story price, and sell your work to millions of potential readers around the world.

http://www.redpaper.com/

Die ganze Aktion nennt sich: Taken a good picture lately?

Your part in the news is important to us and we'd like to see the images you are taking using the latest digital technology. As you can see we have already received thousands of fantastic images from around the world so why not send us yours.

Each week our picture editor will select and publish the best of those here each Friday - so do keep on sending them in.

Remember, whilst we are after news images we're also interested in your visual interpretation of both local and global issues as well as just great pictures of your daily lives.

Any pictures directly related to a current news event may be used immediately within a picture gallery or story. Why not bookmark this page and come back to look at your pictures.

How to submit a picture:

So if you think you have a photograph worth looking at, if you found yourself in the right place at the right time, send it to BBC News Online.

If you want to e-mail it to us, send it to yourpics@bbc.co.uk .

If you want to send your picture from your mobile phone, dial 07970 885089. You can send them from any network or phone. Please send the large full size images (usually 640x480 pixels) taken by the mobiles otherwise they are too small to publish.

Don't forget to include your name and some background information as to what the image is about and why you took the picture as this will increase your chances of selection.

Taken a good picture lately?

Es lebe die Medienvielfalt und die selbst recherchierten Geschichten ! *grmpff"

Selber Artikel, selber Text (wortwörtlich, beim Kurrier sind einige Abschnitte rausgeflogen, wahrscheinlich war der Text zu lang...) , 2 Publikationen und,...natürlich 2 verschiedene Titel,...(harte Redaktionsarbeit also),....die Agenturen machen's möglich.

Spiegel online: Weblogs schaffen Freiheit ,....und beim Kurier heisst der Artikel: Internet lüftet iranische Schleier.
[via Pirate ]

....aber es wäre ja viel zu aufwändig gewesen, einige Weblogs zu lesen,....und schliesslich findet man auch zum Thema im Internet nix,...,. äh,...was waren Blogs schon wieder?

Chapeau!

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Dan Gillmor schreib dazu in seinem eJournal:

It's a fine idea but they're doing it wrong. Usability is a mess. You have to read conversation threads from the bottom up, a notably poor way of following a topic.

[ via Poynter.org]

Via Newsletter von onlinejournalism.com:

Journalisten haben neuerdings auf e-Bay die Möglichkeit, eine Berichterstattung zu ersteigern,...

Via The Globe and Mail: A new trend in online journalism or just a passing fad -- news sites auction writer positions via eBay to cover sports events. Rupert Murdoch's Foxsports.com's recently auctioned writer positions via eBay to cover NASCAR in July. J.D. Mullane in his column with PhillyBurbs.com speculates that sports journalism doesn't demand specialized skills allowing fans and aspiring writers to do a comparable job.

On Thursday 17, 2003, the online bid to cover Pennsylvania 500 at the Pocono Raceway on July 27 was at $152.51. "Peoples' journalism" a big trend in South Korea, where ordinary citizens can report on events and get paid via Ohmynews (see related brief), however a new model emerges with Foxsports.com as the organization gets paid by the reporters to carry their reports.

Artikel in "The Globe and Mail": Going once, going twice: news byline on FOX

PhillyBurbs.com: Covering NASCAR seriously, with a little help from eBay (July 20, 2003)
OJC: In South Korea, everyone can be a Web reporter (May 14, 2003)
Foxsports.com: http://www.foxsports.com/

Der eBay-Aktion kann nich nicht allzuviel abgewinnen,....der "People Journalism"-Geschichte aus Südkorea hingegen schon.

Wahrscheinlich würde ein ähnliches Konzetf in lokalen oder regionalen Märkten funktionieren. Probleme sähe ich hier eher in der Umsetzung und in der Akzeptanz. In erster Linie bei den Journalisten selbst,... in zweiter Linie bei den Verlegern.

Dem Publikum würds gefallen, da bin ich mir sicher. Vielleicht wären genau solche Medien als Ergänzung für serbelnde Lokal- und Regional-Zeitungen geeignet?

Aus dem Newsletter von onlinejournalism.com: Dan Gillmor hat sich, anlässlich der NetMedia 2003- Konferenz, zum Thema Bottom-up Publishing geäussert:

Gillmor presented the consumers' perspective in the face of these changing platforms and said that “bottom-up” publishing, such as blogging and Web site building, has given the audience or consumer a role in producing the news.

“In the past, journalism has been a lecture. Now it's become a conversation or seminar,” he said. “And a journalist's guiding principle must be that, 'my readers know more than I do.' This is not a threat, but an opportunity.” This has the positive effect of handing power and authority to the people journalists cover.

The biggest problem Gillmor sees, however, is governments both in Europe and the U.S. attempting to use copyright legislation as an instrument for control, thereby restricting or limiting this so-called “journalism from the edges,” and putting it into the hands of a few large companies.

Interessante Aspekte, die da angesprochen werden ....

Howard Rheingold, (ja, der!) bei http://www.ojr.org.

Absolut lesenswert!

Auszug aus: Smart Mobs Revisited By Howard Rheingold

Now, by subscribing and linking to online sources we trust, the consumers of blog content are becoming a kind of collective editorial system. The more attentively we sift and analyze and share our discoveries online, the more the writers of blogs (and whatever blogs evolve into) can grow a social intelligence: personally tunable but collectively produced sense-making and way-finding. At least that's a plausible ideal.

For all its entertainment and social networking value, the most important promise of blogging is that it could help revivify the moribund public sphere that is as essential to democracy as voting. The petitions, letters to the editor, pamphleteering that preceded the American and French revolutions were essential enabling institutions for the experiments in self-government that followed.

But the arrival of political public relations and the "massification" of mesmerizing media have degraded the public sphere to the point where vituperative talk radio has married the brutal fascination of television wrestling with the verbal venom of online flame wars.

There are signs that after more than a decade of political insignificance, the democratic potential of the Internet is being realized by more people every day.

Artikel von Howard Rheingold beri www.orj.org: Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism - Smart Mobs Revisited By Howard Rheingold.

... the most important remaining ingredient of a truly democratized electronic newsgathering is neither a kind of hardware nor a variety of software, but a species of literacy ...

Martin Nisenholtz, CEO der New York Times digital über die Zukunft der online-Medien in einem Interview mit "journalistm.co.uk":

What can web journalism achieve that print journalism can't?

First, the Internet is the freest distribution system ever invented. The fact that NYTimes.com is read literally everywhere on earth is a miracle. We take the First Amendment very seriously here in the US and the web is the most important first amendment tool since the invention of language. It's much more powerful than print as a distribution vehicle because it goes everywhere and it's very difficult to stop.

Second, the web is much better than print at reader input. Take a look at movies.nytimes.com and you will see our readers helping one another find the best movies through a simple rate and review function.

Third, the web carries digital data regardless of its form. We can combine text, photography, graphics, audio and video in ways that no other medium can do. The best young journalists understand that this is a genuinely new form of expression.

Fourth, we are not constrained by newsprint, either in form or in the cost structure of the business. Speaking of movies.nytimes.com, we offer 5,000 film reviews.

Fifth, you can slice and dice content in almost unlimited ways. Through our NewsTracker service, for example, I can deliver to you all of the most relevant stories that we publish on a particular topic. This doesn't negate the serendipity of our home page and section fronts; on the contrary, the service brings you things you might otherwise miss if you're a busy person.

....und weiter:

How will new media influence the future of news provision?

New media will have profound influence, despite the naysayers. While some of my colleagues disagree, I think the web log and Wiki movements will have a growing impact on the public dialogue. I believe that blogs complement more mainstream sources. It used to be that patients got information from one source - the person's doctor. Google came along and now patients can get smart without having to understand a medical text. On balance, I think this is good. The same is true in news. We are moving toward a much more distributed kind of news sourcing. This makes quality reporting and editing all the more important. In an atmosphere of information overload, editors make a great deal of sense.

Vollständiges Interview mit Martin Nisenholtz.

Diese Anzeige findet sich im Newsletter von onlinejournalism.com:

University of San Francisco Media Studies professor Chris Paterson is seeking sociological research on the process of creating online media content.
The book he proposes, "Making Online News," will be a first ever collection of descriptive, ethnography-based, critical research concerning Internet content production. Paterson welcomes chapter proposals describing recent qualitative research in any new media production settings.

He can be reached at paterson@usfca.edu

Frage mich, ob in dieser geplanten Arbeit auch die Weblogs berücksichtigt werden. ,.... oder ob wieder einmal "nur" die traditionellen Medien als Content-Lieferanten" angesehen werden,... .

Hier Chris Patersons Homepage.

Gary Baum schreibt bei OnlineJournalism.com:

Australian journalist plagiarizes via Internet

Plagarising stories off the net is easy but so is finding the copycat article and culpable journalist, reports Yahoo News. In what seems like another case of Jayson Blair-style drug-induced journalistic fraud, an Australian tabloid reporter has been found guilty of plagiarizing material from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Glenn Mitchell of the Herald Sun in Melbourne was disciplined after using several passages from a two-part series on the history of Iraq, written by the Star Tribune's Eric Black in February. Black, a 25-year veteran of the Star Tribune, learned of the plagiarism when he discovered Mitchell's article in March on the History News Network Web site.

Mitchell's editor, John Trevorrow, has publicly apologized to Mitchell, saying that plagiarism is "emphatically unacceptable and the Herald Sun does not tolerate it." Trevorrow also explained that Mitchell was suffering from a "severe illness", unknown to the tabloid, and was taking medication that could have affected his judgment.

Aber ja natürlich,....jetzt sind die Medikamente schuld!

Hier die Story bei Yahoo-News: Australia Reporter Rapped for Plagiarism

Herald Sun: http://heraldsun.news.com.au/
Minneapolis Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/