Citizen Journalism

NewsTrust.net: A New Outlet for Citizen Journalists

by Judith Siers-Poisson — December 26, 2006 - 11:30am

Late last month, NewsTrust went live. This non-profit online news rating service aims to help people identify quality journalism - or "news you can trust." The project is led by Fabrice Florin, a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. The concept is simple -- NewsTrust members submit articles, then read and rate them based on key journalistic principles such as fairness, balance, evidence, context and importance.

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NewsTrust.net

Book Ban Backfires

by Bob Burton — November 23, 2006 - 5:59am

The leader of the New Zealand National Party, Don Brash, has resigned in the wake of a party backlash over his attempt to ban a book by investigative journalist Nicky Hager. Last week Brash gained an injunction from the High Court of New Zealand banning anyone in the country from publishing the content of his emails. Hager's book, The Hollow Men: A Study in the Politics of Deception, was set to be released last Tuesday but was blocked by the injunction.

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New Zealand Herald, November 23, 2006

Spooks and Geeks

by Judith Siers-Poisson — October 2, 2006 - 6:58pm

Oh to be a fly on that wall. Late last week Mark Oehlert of Booz Allen Hamilton organized a two day meeting between CIA employees and experts on blogs and wikis. The goal was to assist the CIA in improving their internal communications and information sharing.

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e-clippings, BlogOehlert, September 28, 2006

Tools for Citizen Journalists

by Sheldon Rampton — August 29, 2006 - 2:11pm

Saturday's conference of the Society of Professional Journalists featured a presentation on "software, hardware and other tools revolutionizing journalism," with useful tip sheets provided by Amy Gahran and Jeff South.

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SourceWatch

Who's Afraid of Eric Schlosser?

by Jonathan Rosenblum — August 7, 2006 - 4:23pm

"Who made the edit?" asks Evan Hessel in his Forbes "OutFront" column. "The edit" in Wikipedia's entry on McDonald's Corporation erased a link to Eric Schlosser's highly critical assessment of McDonald's in Fast Food Nation, and replaced it with a link to a more academic tome.

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Forbes, June 19, 2006

Congresspedia/SourceWatch gets wiki-mania

by Conor Kenny — August 4, 2006 - 10:45am
  • Topics: Citizen Journalism, Internet, Media

    • I’m currently at the Citizen Journalism "unconference" at the Wikimania 2006 conference in Boston with a joint team from the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Media and Democracy.

    How to Be a Grassroots Propaganda Buster

    by Diane Farsetta — July 31, 2006 - 5:57pm
  • Topics: Citizen Journalism, Activism, Public Relations

    • While in the Denver area for a conference, Center for Media and Democracy Associate Director Judith Siers-Poisson and I met with staff and board members of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC). We wanted to hear about RMPJC's fine work, especially on nuclear weapons issues, and to describe CMD's online resources to them. One offshoot of that meeting was the following article, which I wrote for RMPJC's newsletter.

    New additions to Congresspedia

    by Conor Kenny — May 14, 2006 - 11:50pm
  • Topics: Citizen Journalism, Politics, U.S. Government

    • It's been a busy week on Congresspedia. New additions to the site include:

    Also well worth checking out is the muckraking action over at the Sunlight Foundation blogs. The new Congresspedia article contributions include:

    Welcome To the Launch of Congresspedia

    by Conor Kenny — April 26, 2006 - 11:36am
  • Topics: Citizen Journalism, Politics, U.S. Government

    • Welcome to the debut of Congresspedia, the "citizen's encyclopedia on Congress." Congresspedia is a bold new experiment by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation in distributed citizen journalism. It is based on the wiki model (think Wikipedia) and is a subset of the Center's SourceWatch wiki.

    Inside the Tobacco Industry's Files

    by Bob Burton — February 1, 2006 - 1:02am
  • Topics: Citizen Journalism, Corporations, Health, Tobacco

    • As the Center for Media and Democracy has noted, the tobacco industry pioneered many deceptive public relations tactics, casting a long shadow over science and health reporting, as well as the public's right to know.

    Before its fall from grace, tobacco industry created front groups courted journalists and obscured damning scientific evidence. But, inadvertently, the industry is now helping independent researchers and reporters understand how PR is used to obscure facts and shape public debates.

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