Bloggers, citizen journalism and the BBC
Another round-up post with links to some articles and blog posts that relate to our central themes:
- Dale Dougherty left his job as a newspaper reporter to start a local online media outlet called the Chi-Town Daily News, and the Online Journalism Review had a piece about him recently.
- Jay Rosen of PressThink has a long treatise looking at the evolution of what he (and others) refer to as “the people formerly known as the audience.”
- The BBC launches a blog written by its senior editors, which is called simply The Editors. There’s some discussion of the blog at Jeff Jarvis’s Buzzmachine.
- Some good advice from Steve Outing, columnist for Editor & Publisher, on “How to make your website more conversational.”
- Jack Shafer at Slate magazine has a piece in which he argues that newspapers are shrinking but the desire for news is growing. There’s some comment on his thoughts from the Center for Citizen Media.
- Donna Bogatin has a column at ZDNet in which she talks about Wikipedia and whether such social networks actually produce anything of value because of what she calls “social freeloaders.”
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