Recipes for citizen journalism
How did they do it? Hartsville, South Carolina, is a small town in the southeastern United States, with a local newspaper (The Messenger) that is published just two days a week. In 2005, Doug Fisher at the University of South Carolina got a New Voices grant to work with The Messenger and the community to create a citizen journalism project.
Now Doug has posted a 75-page “cookbook” (PDF file) for creating community sites like Hartsville Today. Check out his blog post about it — the comments are very positive!
The report (title: “Hartsville Today: The first year of a small-town citizen-journalism site. A guide especially for small daily and non-daily newspapers”) comes after one year of work on the site.
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There was an excellent panel on citizen journalism entitled Citizen Media: Could It Be Your Next Job? at the SPJ convention in Chicago. The link is to the QuickTime video archive of the panel.
August 31, 2006 at 2:01 pmNice video! Loaded and played fine for me on DSL at home.
September 4, 2006 at 1:20 pm