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[13 Jul 2010 | View Comments | ]
Read the study: “Citizen Journalism Web Sites Complement Newspapers”

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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[24 Jun 2010 | View Comments | ]
Answers to 10 key community engagement questions for news sites: The best of #wjchat

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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[16 Jun 2010 | View Comments | ]
2011: The year mobile takes over

You have less than one year left to talk about mobile devices as the “future” of media.
A lot of people have been talking about the eventual dominance of mobile. Some people have been planning. How many are truly ready?
We’ll know next year.

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[4 Jun 2010 | View Comments | ]
What is journalism school for?

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.