Citizen journalism round-up
Some recent developments on the “citizen journalism” or “user-generated content” front, depending on which irritating buzzword you prefer:
– Gigaom.com has a piece about JPG magazine, which is an interesting blend of online and real (i.e., paper) publishing: started by blogger Derek Powazek and a friend, it takes high-quality photo submissions from amateur photographers and then Web voters choose the best of the submissions, which are then published in a print magazine.
– TechCrunch has a post about a new “citizen journalism” site called Citizenbay, which hasn’t launched yet (TechCrunch got access to the beta). According to the post, it’s “a city centered citizen journalism project that will pay users whose contributions are voted the ten best by readers each day in 60 cities around the US and France.”
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