Category Archives: Citizen Journalism

Need Movie/Book Review? Ask Neighbors

Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 by • 1 comment

Here’s a new use of Front Porch Forum’s service from a member in the Oakledge Neighborhood Forum…

I’ll bet some of the folks in this neighborhood are reading some good books and seeing films and plays regularly.  It would be really interesting if folks would write a few words for the neighborhood forum about a book or film they have really enjoyed and think others shouldn’t miss.  -N.A.

Our mission… helping neighbors connect and foster community within the neighborhood.  This message certainly fits the bill!  Now, I hope she gets some folks to give it a shot.

Two new citizen journalism reports

Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 by • Comments are off for this post

Debbie Block-Schwenk points out a couple new resources today for citizen journalism sites:

Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News? The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism was released by J-Lab. The report by Jan Schaffer consolidates and analyzes responses from 191 people involved with or familiar with online citizen media, including 31 operators of citizen media sites.

Also enabled by J-Lab and the Knight Foundation via their New Voices program is a new “cook book” sharing the experiences of the first year of community site Hartsville Today. The site was started by Douglas J. Fisher, a journalism instructor at the University of South Carolina and Graham Osteen, Publisher of The Hartsville Messenger. The report, entitled Hartsville Today: The first year of a small-town citizen journalism site, documents in detail the steps they took, from deciding on a web site domain name to training staff.

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