CNET: SEC launches probe into phony Jobs heart attack report
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 16:34
"Jennifer Martin, a CNN spokeswoman told CNET News that SEC investigators contacted the cable-news broadcaster seeking information on the person who posted the phony story to iReport.com. The CNN-owned site is dedicated to hosting news submitted by members of the public."
paidContent.org: CNN’s iReport Under Fire For Fake Jobs Health Report
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 16:14
Staci Kramer: "It’s up to us as journalists and sharers of information to decide how we make use of any unsubstantiated reports."
Chicago Tribune: Eric 2.0: Apple’s Jobs is fine. Why didn’t anyone ask?
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 16:10
"It’s flat-out embarrassing, dangerous and a blow to the credibility of an experiment that portends to tap into the Web’s community spirit. I have no problem with the notion of citizen journalism—it’s a perfect solution for covering neighborhood news and for eyewitness reports of major events. But when it’s used to break news, as the Jobs report did, facts need to be checked first. … CNN needs to rethink it’s citizen journalism approach. It apparently doesn’t want to take any responsibility when something goes awry. "
Silicon Alley Insider: Post Hate Mail About Our Link To Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report Here
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:09
Henry Blodget: "A small, vocal minority … –including some members of the mainstream media–believe we should have waited to comment on the iReport story until we had heard back from Apple. We respectfully disagree. As many observers have noted over the past five years, online journalism occupies a new and unique niche in the media continuum: Specifically, it lies somewhere between print, broadcast, and person-to-person communication, and shares attributes of each."
Wired: Threat LeveL: Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 07:57
"Wired.com's Threat Level blog won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism on Wednesday for finding a way to let you readers highlight the worst whitewashing of Wikipedia entries by corporations and governments. … Knight-Batten also awarded $2,000 special distinction awards to Politifact.com and Ushahidi."
Telegraph.co.uk: Why citizen journalism matters
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 07:39
Demotix CEO Turi Munthe: "What we do is to take those pictures and videos and host them on www.demotix.com, which we see as a kind of Youtube for news."
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 09:14
Comments
"When we journalists talk about integration we generally mean, integrating print and online activities. But the true integration comes online itself. The integration between journalists and citizens."
Friday, 23 May 2008, 17:32
Comments
"However, there’s aspects [of the Express & Echo's coverage] that are far from perfect. The bitty nature of the articles is quite frustrating. Also, every piece is finished with a plug for tomorrow’s echo, where the full story will appear."
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 09:05
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"When the town of Orting, WA lost its hometown weekly - several residents banded together to keep the information flowing online. The Orting Gazette turned off the presses in March - but now the new Orting News online site features community news submitte
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 08:33
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"… any professional …reporter who agrees to respect an "off the record" request at a meeting is committing an act of unilateral professional disarmament. I say… bag that. Don’t tell organizers that you’re a reporter. You’re a citizen, too. Get in, a
Monday, 17 March 2008, 18:19
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"[T]he Project for Excellence in Journalism came out with its fifth annual look at the media … The study contradicts most of the assumptions we’ve grown to accept about the impact of technology on media and journalism in the last few years."
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 23:37
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Clarkson latest celebrity caught by the distributed mobile phone surveillance network.
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 10:04
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Kyle McRae reflects on launching the "citizen journalism" photo agency Scoopt.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 23:21
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"Photo agencies are increasingly relying on submissions from regular folk who either happen to bump into celebrities while carrying digital cameras, or who have injected themselves into the cat-and-mouse game of celebrity snapshots …"
