Jay Rosen writes about Placeblogger, an aggregation site for placeblogs.
What’s a placeblog? I thought you’d never ask.
Placeblogs … are about something broader than news alone. They’re about the lived experience of a place. That experience may be news, or it may simply be about that part of our lives that isn’t news but creates [...]

I was thinking about writing about what motivates people to contribute photos, stories, etc. You can call it citizen journalism or whatever, that’s not the point.
Limor Peer (research director for the Media Management Center and Readership Institute at Northwestern University) saved me the trouble. She wrote a thoughtful, intelligent post (but it’s not overlong) that [...]

We all agree that something must change, because clearly newspapers have become irrelevant to many people in the local communities they claim to serve. The solo mojos at the News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida, certainly represent a change, and if they spend all day out in those communities, then maybe it’s a change for the [...]

Forget citizen journalists — how good are citizen editors? Are crowds really wiser than individuals?
At AlterNet, John Gorenfeld has been Surfing the Future of News 2.0 — looking into the usefulness of sites such as Personal Bee, Newsvine, CommonTimes, iTalkNews, WikiNews and NowPublic. Disappointingly, he doesn’t provide a summary of his tests.
I hit up a [...]

The Editors Weblog has a decent roundup of recent online journalism tidbits today: The obligatory blah-blah about citizen journalism, a good point about the increasing fragmentation of search (especially as related to online video), and a well-deserved dig at the Pulitizers’ back-door approach to online.
Good stuff about international online journalism (Spain and China). The anticipated [...]

From an article in AsiaMedia (March 7):
“Blogging is more of an individual process, where you might write about personal issues in your daily life or comment on an issue that is important to you,” said Lam Oi-wan, editor of citizen media site InMediaHK (in Chinese only). “Bloggers don’t normally go out and report something, whereas [...]

OhmyNews (English version here), the robust Korean citizen-journalism Web site, got US$11 million from Softbank, a Japanese investment firm. Softbank received a nearly 13 percent stake in OhmyNews in the deal. OhmyNews said it will start a Japanese-language news site (when? Don’t know).
Full story at Red Herring.
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