citizen journalism

Citizen journalism? What's in a name?

Jeff Jarvis is backing away from that loaded term "citizen journalism," and contemplating "networked journalism" as an alternative. Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but is it necessarily the same rose? I think the real problem in the debate over so-called citizen journalism has been a lack of concensus over what process is being described, not merely the label we attach to it.

Getting serious about a new kind of journalism

Staci Kramer reports that Post-Dispatch investigative reporter Christopher Carey is striking out on his own with a website called Sharesleuth, which will engage stringers and non-journalists in a quest to uncover "stock fraud and executive malfeasance on the national and international level."

Mark Cuban is bankrolling it.

If it works, this is huge. Much bigger than, say, Om Malik or Scoble and all the other stuff that's buzzing the net today.

The father of citizen journalism

Last week in Orlando at the NAA Connections conference, Lisa Desisto of the Boston Globe was given the NAA's online innovator award. In her gracious acceptance speech she acknowledged her two fellow finalists -- Dave Morgan of Tacoda Systems as "father of targeted advertising" and me as "father of citizen journalism." This, of course, immediately prompted a round of jokes in my corner of the room about illegitimate offspring.

Careful with that 'citizen journalism' label

Out in Colorado, New West writer Howard Rothman is critizicing YourHub.com for allowing shills for local politicians to "post whatever they like in 'news stories' and 'columns' which carry no costs like a traditional advertisement and have a degree of implied authenticity that elevates them beyond anything a paid ad could dream to achieve."

Is he right?