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This study comparing citizen journalism and traditional newspaper reporting has drawn lots of discussion on Twitter, but is not readily available online. Below is a copy posted to Scribd by Goran Rizaov.
UPDATE: After first just putting this up to make it available, I’ve looked through it and have some thoughts.
This study is disappointing on a few levels. It’s not a study of citizen journalism and newspaper journalism. It’s a study of citizen journalism sites and newspaper sites. So that’s a bit limiting and doesn’t approach some more interesting issues of …
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Last night I hosted a two-hour live chat on Twitter about Web journalism. It was the 20th weekly episode of #wjchat, where people involved or interested in online journalism gather to discuss questions around a certain topic.
Our topic this week was “How to build engaged online communities,” specifically for news sites. Of course I picked this topic because my job is to work with a team of engagement wizards to build a web community around TBD.com, a news Washington, D.C., local news site launching this summer.
If you didn’t get to …
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I missed the weekly #wjchat Web journalism discussion last night on Twitter, which focused on whether journalism schools are still relevant, and what their roles should be today. As a J-school graduate (Missouri BJ’04) and someone who has seen a lot of recent grads enter and exit newsrooms, I have some insight.
