2. The Idea…
And it’s going to get harder still. The hunter-gather
model of journalism is no longer sufficient. Citizens
can do their own hunting and gathering on the
internet. What they need is somebody to add value to
that information by processing it – digesting
it, organizing it, making it usable.
Phil Meyer
3. Citizen Journalism
By the late 1990s critics were calling press arrogant,
elitist and unresponsive to the public.
Journalists discovered that the power of the people can
help them jump start the process of finding sources,
experts and new angles and provide instant feedbak.
5. Crowdsourcing
Boston newspaper “Publik” – clean last page.
Britannica VS Wikipedia
Microsoft VS Firefox (Mozilla Foundation)
6. Our readers know more than us
Structure the task
Make it easy and understandable
Use the best tools
7. How to
Generate idea for information needed
Create a form
Collect the story information
Do you need to confirm anything?
Map coverage
Write an analytic post explaining what its all about
8. Open-source reporting
To go public with your story idea early in the reporting
process.
Disclosure invites readers to help you report the story.
Welcome the audience’s feedback.
It will increate your credibility – they are following
each of your steps.
People see how the process works.
9. How to make it work?
There must be a drive of investigation.
Momentum – feedback that keeps people from being
discouraged.
Expertise and diversity
10. Types
1. Mechanical – many people doing the same job
2. The wisdom of crowd – diversity
11. Beatblogging
Build a social network around traditional reporting
beat, either with a blog or a free platform, like google
group – bring the stakeholder on that beat together.
Link – to source or documents
12. Pro-AM Journalism
Do-it-yourself Movement
OffTheBus (OTB) was a citizen-powered campaign
news site co-sponsored by The Huffington Post – on-
the-ground-information
http://www.nowpublic.com/ link to AP
