It’s time to finally get citizen journalism right.
The problem with “citizen journalism” is that it insults professional, paid, rigorously trained, working journalists to equate them with people who often have only a modicum of training, or none at all. It also encourages news organizations to think citizens can be a cheaper alternative to professional journalists, which could degrade the quality of journalism. This, in turn, puts the citizen journalists in an awkward economic position, as some organizations believe they should not be paid. And unpaid content contributors are considered by many to be exploited.
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Also, if this looks familiar, it’s because it is a streamlined and hopefully clearer version of my earlier post here titled, “It’s time to finally get citizen journalism right“.
It’s time to stop calling it citizen journalism.
That was one of the big takeaways from the meeting on mobile citizen journalism I helped organize at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy this past week. The consensus was that we’ve all been calling it – citizen journalism – the wrong name all these years. It’s time for a rebrand. Or a rethink. That term just isn’t cutting it.
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I’m due to begin my greatest media development adventure of all time on April 13, 2012. That is when science has concluded my first child will arrive. Here comes fatherhood. In a world of media access never before seen.
If one has a question, it has never been this easy to get an answer almost instantaneously.
I’m old enough to remember life before the Internet, when I had to find someone who knew the answer or had to look it up in a library. Now, I have the world’s library in my home. Even better, I have it on my phone. All I need is a data connection or Wi-Fi. [click to continue…]
