Some questions and answers about citizen media
Submitted by yelvington on June 19, 2007 - 11:30amAn editor for Ifra's magazine, Newspaper Techniques, interviewed me via email. Here's my response:
How can newspapers implement community sites?
I think the first step is to recognize the nature of community, and the constructive role played by journalism.
We typically don't do that. We typically think our job begins and ends with "covering the news," and we don't think carefully enough about what effects we have in the community.