Posts Tagged ‘blogosphere’

Infographical journalism

BBC CoJo on Twitter, currently tweeting about a debate at the Frontline Club chaired by BBC News Director Richard Sambrook, just posted this great link to a pictorial breakdown of the blogosphere. 
Check it out via the link… or here’s a smaller version (excuse the looooong picture embed):

Haiti: a tipping point for citizen journalism?

The world continues to watch, horrified, as details of the Haitian earthquake and its aftermath reach Western shores. At 8:00 GMT on 13th January, a powerful earthquate, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, struck the Haitian capital Port au Prince, destroying many buildings and burying hundreds of thousands of helpless people in the rubble. The [...]

Personalize media: Widget of the decade

As citizen journalism is all about giving everyone a voice, quotations are vitally important. Gary Hayes, Australian journalist extraordinaire and a digital developer at the BBC, has created the following blog plugin, which he calls the social web words widget. Catchy title; and the widget – which can be found for free on Gary’s website, [...]

What do the professionals think?

It’s important to remember that the citizen journalism revolution – or evolution – has two sides. On one, there are the “plucky bloggers”, churning out story after photo after video after comment; trying to get their voices heard in the media melee of the internet. These are the citizen journalists I like to talk about. [...]

The wonderful world of Wikipedia

Ok so it’s not traditional citizen journalism, but an article on Wikipedia caught my eye in yesterday’s Sunday Times, and I wanted to explain how it’s a whole lot more relevant than we think to the citizen journalism revolution taking over the media world. Wikipedia’s own article on Wikipedia is possibly a good place to [...]

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