Sponsorised links
This year
MediaShift . Brave Citizen Journalists Provide New Images of Iranian Life | PBS
by srcmax
(via)
In general, it would be nice to read and see reports from despotic regimes during times of peace, so that we can have a window into their world before the blood spills. (One good example of seeing into the lives of people in a war zone is the "Gaza Sderot" video show that I profiled on MediaShift.)
Kickstarter
by gregg
Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers...
» Learn more about Kickstarter, how it works, and what's in it for you.
Journalists / Coders - The evolution of an industry
by karlcow
We're a group of journalists, some learning, some experienced, working develop new applications that make the news better.
Interactive Narratives - The Best in Multimedia Storytelling and Multimedia Journalism
by gregg
& 3 others
Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists from around the country and the world. Our goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging storytelling, and eye-popping design in an environment that fosters interaction, discussion, and learning.
Interactive Narratives - The Best in Multimedia Storytelling and Multimedia Journalism
by sbrothier
& 3 others
Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists from around the country and the world. Our goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging storytelling, and eye-popping design in an environment that fosters interaction, discussion, and learning.
Sponsorised links
2008
Home - Pink Paper
by gregg
& 2 others
Pink Paper is Britain’s only national lesbian, gay and bisexual newspaper and the biggest circulating gay publication of any kind in the country.
But it’s unique in many more ways than that. While it’s one of the oldest queer titles, founded in 1987, it now has one of the country’s most modern gay websites and we were the first title in the market to put citizen journalists at the forefront of what we do, through our innovative Your.PinkPaper.com site.
DxOmark.com (beta), a free resource dedicated to RAW-based camera image quality
by Emaux
& 1 other
DxO Labs created dxomark.com for members of the digital photographic community who are passionate about image quality – professional photographers, advanced amateurs, photography reviewers and imaging media journalists. While other websites publish information about JPEG image quality, only DxO Labs provides the first publicly-accessible database of objective and in-depth RAW sensor image quality measurements.
Home - Pink Paper
by sbrothier
& 2 others
(via)
Pink Paper is Britain’s only national lesbian, gay and bisexual newspaper and the biggest circulating gay publication of any kind in the country.
But it’s unique in many more ways than that. While it’s one of the oldest queer titles, founded in 1987, it now has one of the country’s most modern gay websites and we were the first title in the market to put citizen journalists at the forefront of what we do, through our innovative Your.PinkPaper.com site.
Media Matters
by dggit
& 11 others
(via)
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.
Using the website www.mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.
Hidden Beijing
by karlcow
Le monde du spectacle.For visitors, coming to an Olympic city where so many aspects of life — clothing, conversation, food, everything — are staged is only going to cause more confusion about China when the returning waiguoren tell their stories about Beijing. Expats burn when travel writers and foreign journalists make simplistic generalization, but, with half the Beijing story hidden, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of it. And this will only reinforce the commonly-held belief that Westerners just can’t understand China. (Or the commonly-held belief that China’s all ancient temples and KFCs. Either or!)
VII VISIONAIRES
by sbrothier
VII derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency.
Ideas and Trends - For New Journalists, All Bets, but Not Mikes, Are Off - NYTimes.com
by filloux
For New Journalists, All Bets, but Not Mikes, Are Off
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: June 8, 2008
A 61-year-old woman elbows her 5-foot-2-inch frame to the front of the crowd mobbing Bill Clinton after a campaign event in South Dakota. As Mr. Clinton shakes her hand and holds it tight, she deftly draws him into a response to an article on the Vanity Fair Web site that examines his post-presidential life. “Sleazy” and “slimy” are among the words that issue from the former president’s mouth. Within hours, audio of the three-minute exchange — including the woman’s description of the article as a “hatchet job,” and Mr. Clinton’s description of Todd Purdum, the author and a former reporter for The New York Times, as “dishonest” — is available for the world to hear on the Huffington Post Web site.
Home | Spot.us
by mozkart
(via)
"Spot Us" is a nonprofit that allows an individual or group to take control of news in their community by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists to write important, or uncovered news stories.
2007
Alternative Channel
by Dawa
Alternativechannel.tv is an independent television-over-internet news channel webcasting high quality documentary and public affairs videos created by citizen journalists guided and assisted by a professional news team. We support all major web-fed platforms. We will be streaming content, and we will be offering video on demand. And we will launch in April 2007.
Marquis Who's Who Online
by cyberien
(via)
Since 1899, Who's Who in America® has chronicled the lives and careers of America's most noteworthy men and women.
Today, Marquis Who's Who has grown to include the biographies of millions of leaders and achievers from around the world and from every significant field of endeavor. Executives, journalists, educators, students, libraries, and researchers of all kinds consult our online biographical database and specialized directories for in-depth, accurate information they can use with confidence.
The Doc Searls Weblog : How to Save Newspapers
by pbla
Reform journalism school.
Embrace the best bloggers.
Stop giving away the news and charging for the olds.
Start featuring archived stuff on the paper's website.
Link outside the paper.
Start following, and linking to, local bloggers and even competing papers (such as the local arts weeklies).
Start following, and linking to, local bloggers and even competing papers (such as the local arts weeklies).
Start looking to citizen journalists (CJs) for coverage of hot breaking local news topics.
Stop calling everything "content".
Uncomplicate your websites.
Get hip to the Live Web.
publish Rivers of News for readers who use Blackberries or Treos or Nokia 770s, or other handheld Web browsers.
Remember the higher purpose behind the most informative writing — and therefore behind newspapers as well.
whiteboard - write, share, revise, compare.
by blackgoldfish
& 46 others
Writeboard is perfect for...
Authors, journalists, PR folks, editors, and publishers
Bloggers or freelance/independent writers
Letter writers, songwriters, poets, comedians, creatives
Students, professors, and groups collaborating on a paper
howardowens.com: media blog » Blog Archive » Personal Journalism
by dggit
(via)
Personal Journalism is just as ethical as old-school public journalism. It still values facts, fairness, truth telling and good reporting. It’s just that personal journalism is written differently. It is written from one person, a person we can identify and identify with, for one person. The byline is more than a name under a headline in Personal Journalism. It is the persona and the personality. Personal journalists do more than report the story. They let us see at least a little about who they are, what they believe, what drives them and what they find important. If a personal journalist has a bias, we know it. That is part of the truth-telling tradition all journalists should endorse, but only personal journalists make it a practice.
Personal Journalism is shareable because people like to share what has touched them in a direct, intimate way, be it a song, a video or a good story.
Personal Journalists let other people help with the fact gathering or putting the facts in context, because Personal Journalism is part of a conversation, not a proprietary, walled garden.
Personal journalists can be writers, recorders or picture takers, but for the sake of clarity, I’ve written the definition from a writer’s point of view.
In the future, all journalists will be personal journalists. Within five to ten years, if you’re not a personal journalist, you will be out of work, and if your news organization hasn’t embraced personal journalism, it will be out of business. Well, that may be going a bit too far, because I’m not sure personal journalism is required of those who report for print or broadcast, but it is required of online journalists. So long as print survives, even in newsletters for the elderly and the elite, public journalism will survive. In the online world, personal journalism will be the only journalism people consistently seek.
Journalistopia » Web sites for citizen journalism techniques, tutorials
by dggit
(via)
A world for online journalists. Come all ye scribes, artists and innovators of the press.
2006
Truth Dig
by epastreich
Truth Dig (Left-leaning commentaries from well known journalists; some extremely valuable) _
Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists
by jlesage
tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual
Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions
by ionial
The Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions is a resource for journalists and others looking for an easy-to-use guide to the Conventions. It is published by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Committee to protect Journalists - CPJ Press Freedom Online
by Gérard Delisle
An independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide
