Citizen Journalism: A Primer
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism’s “2009 State of News Media” report contains an interesting section on citizen journalism. The report concedes that there has been a growing number of citizen-media sites, but that “citizen news sites provided much less reporting (57%), as well as opinion and special content like calendar items” on the [...]
Blogging for Beginners
So, you have a brand-spanking-new blog and a million and one ideas and the energy to be a prolific blogger. Yet you pause, asking: “Do I really know what I’m doing?” Many media consultants now assume that clients have basic blogging skills, much like they assume clients know how to use a computer. That said, although anyone [...]
Journalism’s Future
Paul Keep, the newly installed editor of The Grand Rapids Press, spoke Wednesday on the future of newspapers, in prepared remarks delivered to the Press Club of Grand Rapids. Keep’s thesis is straightforward: The Internet and the global recession have proved to be a double-whammy, slashing at advertising revenue and forcing newspapers to make sacrifices such as reporter layoffs [...]