When Larry Cornies tweeted, “Attention, citizen journalists: Grand Theatre (London, Ont.) annual meeting,” for a moment I thought he was talking about an annual meeting of citizen journalists… “Oh?” I thought to myself, “I wonder who put that together?” No… Once I regained my literacy I realized the annual meeting was in fact for The [...]
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At the London Free Press, Ian Gillespie warns of the hazards of the internet: Watching that 90-second video [here], it’s hard — no, make that impossible — to see or know exactly what’s going on. But that hasn’t stopped tens of thousands (by late yesterday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 30,000 times [...]
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Contrary to what a lot of professional journalists seem to resent citizen journalism for aspiring to — essentially just cheap and undisciplined journalism — my vision of open and participatory journalism is that non-journalists will play complementary and contributing roles. More people will have some of the basic skills and reflexes needed to contribute whenever they [...]
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Not just “in” London, but for London — that seems to be the underlying purpose of Dan Brown’s “challenge to London bloggers“: I’m challenging London bloggers to do their own original reporting. [...] If you believe, as I do, that this city deserves excellent journalism, it’s time to lead by example. I think we’ll all be better for [...]
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With all the newspaper stuff happening I wanted to write something along those lines, like, “Citizen Journalism: Your Civic Duty,” or something lame like that. I was going to recommend PodCamp London (not lame) coming up in April, tip my hat to the encouraging progress the London Free Press is making (with people there starting to appreciate citizen journalists a little [...]
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