Links tracking the transformation of user-generated / community content
Archived Stories
Community engagement: A practical conversation for newsrooms
Joy Mayer, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Aug. 15, 2011
Nieman Reports (“Links that Bind Us”: Issue on Communities)
Summer 2011
2011 journalist engagement survey (Survey Highlights)
Kenneth Fleming, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Jul. 7, 2011
From “write us a post” to “fill out this form:” Progress in pro-am journalism
Jay Rosen, PressThink, Jun. 7, 2011
The opportunities and challenges of Meporter, a new citizen journalism mobile app
Jeff Sonderman, Poynter, May 27, 2011
Why the man who tweeted Osama bin Laden raid is a citizen journalist
Steve Myers, Poynter, May 5, 2011
Royal Wedding ticket the latest benchmark of citizen journalism’s ascendancy at CNN
Matthew Palevsky, Poynter, Apr. 27, 2011
The Harsh Reality About User-Gen Content: There Isn’t Enough To Go Around
Kevin Smokler, paidContent, Apr. 10, 2011
How citizen journalism has changed since George Holliday’s Rodney King video
Steve Myers, Poynter, Mar. 3, 2011
Rodney King and the Rise of the Citizen Photojournalist
Dan Gilmor, Mediactive, Mar. 2, 2011
90% of User-Generated Content Site Visitors Are Lurkers, And It’s OK
Mark Suster, Business Insider, Aug. 25, 2010
Join Eyes & Ears 2010: Cover The Midterm Elections
Rebecca Harrington, Huffington Post, Aug. 18, 2010
Patch and Pro-Am Media by the Numbers
Edmund Lee, Advertising Age, Aug. 17, 2010
YouTube Connects San Francisco TV Station with Citizen Journalists
Matt Baume, Poynter, Aug. 17, 2010
The Citizens Agenda in Campaign Coverage
Jay Rosen, PressThink, Aug. 15, 2010
How The Boston Globe Crowdsourced Its World Cup Coverage
Roy Greene, Poynter, Jul. 16, 2010
Crowdsourcing Verified Double Lightning Strike Photo
Kelly McBride, Poynter, Jun. 28, 2010
YouTube Tests News Feed for Pro and Citizen Journalists
Jolie O’Dell, Mashable, Jun. 14, 2010
The New Content Providers and the Media
NewsU, Poynter, Jun. 24, 2010
Data Visualization, Community Involvement Among Winning Ideas in Knight News Challenge
Steve Myers, Poynter, Jun. 17, 2010
Citizen Journalism Web Sites Complement Newspapers
Stephen Lacy, Margaret Duffy, Daniel Riffe, Esther Thorson and Ken Fleming
Newspaper Research Journal, Spring 2010
Milkshake Mistakes and Cheezburger Lolcats: Shirky’s Latest Lessons for News
Bill Mitchell, NewsPay, Poynter, Jun. 14, 2010
Locals Pitch: We Want Time’s ‘Assignment Detroit’ House
Bill Mitchell, NewsPay, Poynter, Jun. 7, 2010
5 Ways to Crowdsource Easily, Legally & with Quality
Jeremy Caplan, Poynter, May 12, 2010
(Related: Poynter Conference: Stretching Your News Budget with User Content, May 6-7, 2010, and Poynter NewsU Broadcast: Collaboration With Users, May 6, 2010
Civil Beat, TBD Model How To Start a News Operation From Scratch
Rick Edmonds, The Biz Blog, Poynter, May. 14, 2010
Spot.Us Experiments with User-Directed Sponsorship Revenue
Bill Mitchell, NewsPay, Poynter, May 11, 2010
Crowdsourcing goes global: The NYT’s “Moment in Time”
Megan Garber, Nieman Journalism Lab, May 11, 2010
Creating a Magazine Over a Weekend
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, WSJ Digits Blog, May 10, 2010
On journalism & crowdsourcing: the good, the bad, the ugly
David Eaves, eaves.ca, May 5, 2010
Drawing out the audience: Inside BBC’s User-Generated Content Hub
Jonathan Stray, Nieman Journalism Lab, May 5, 2010 (Linked from Business Insider)
5 Ways To Turbo-Charge User Generated Content For SEO
Tom C, SEOmoz, May 2, 2010
Can User-Generated Content Change Your World?
Ian Larson, Ian’s Posterous, Apr. 29, 2010
Previewing The Crowd-Sourced Ad World
Steve Smith, MediaPost, VidBlog, Apr. 29, 2010
The Tribune Company Finds An Audience
For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow
Leena Rao, TechCrunch, Apr. 24, 2010
The Day Has Come: We’re Live at Civil Beat
John Temple, Temple Talk, Apr. 21, 2010
(See also: A New Approach to Journalism
Civil Beat, Apr. 20, 2010)
Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia:
An Analysis of the City’s Media Ecosystem with Final Recommendations
Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, Apr. 2010
Video: Panel About J-Lab Networked Journalism Project
Moderator: Jan Schaffer, J-Lab Executive Director, ASNE Convention, April 12, 2010
(Description of Networked Journalism Project)
GroundReport: Citizen Journalism Gets Richer
JD Lasica, Socialmedia.biz, Apr. 12, 2010
User-generated content and journalism
Todd Nash, Apr. 11, 2010
The triple threat to citizen journalists
Alan D. Mutter, Reflections of a Newsosaur, Apr. 9, 2010
The future of user-generated content
Modus Associates, Spring 2010
Citizen Journalism Site AllVoices Adds 30 Countries
Curt Hopkins, ReadWriteWeb, Apr. 9, 2010
(Related: Allvoices: About Us)
SacBee launches hyperlocal aggregation site
Mark Briggs, Lost Remote, Apr. 6, 2010
The Case For Crowdsourced Journalism
The Crowdsourcing Blog, Mar. 31, 2010
Crowdsourcing: The Future For Journalism?
Blur Group, Mar. 30, 2010
Time for a press award for crowdsourced journalism?
PDA Digital Content Blog, Guardian.co.uk, Mar. 29, 2010
The Downside of User-Generated Content
Mathew Ingram, BusinessWeek, Mar. 25, 2010
Video: The Seattle Times: Community news site partnership
Danny Gawlowski, Vimeo, Mar. 23, 2010
The freedom to fail and the need to experiment:
What gives a citizen-journalism project a chance to work
Megan Garber, Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar. 23, 2010
6 Tips for User-Generated Content from ‘Monkey on the Loose’
Bill Mitchell, NewsPay, Poynter, Mar. 23, 2010
Boosting Citizen Journalism with Training, Payment, Editors
Harry Dugmore, MediaShift Idea Lab, Mar. 22, 2010
Content and Community: My Talk on Peer News at the Newsmorphosis Conference
John Temple, Temple Talk, Mar. 18, 2010
Must user-generated-content threaten quality journalism?
Emily Braham, Online Journalism Blog, Mar. 12, 2010
Community Journalism (2010)
State of the Media, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 2010
Thinking about Citizen Journalism: The Philosophical and Practical Challenges of User-Generated Content for Community Newspapers
Seth C. Lewis, Kelly Kaufhold, and Dominic L. Sasorsa, Journalism Practice, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2010
The pros and cons of newspapers partnering with ‘citizen journalism’ networks
Gerry Storch, OJR, Feb. 26, 2010
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, Feb. 25, 2010
The Role of New Media Makers: Entrepreneurship and the Future of News
Jan Schaffer, J-Lab Executive Director, USC Annenberg, Feb. 24, 2010
(Related: Schaffer: News Consumers Need Watch Dogs & Guide Dogs
Rick Edmonds, The Biz Blog, Poynter, Mar. 10, 2010)
AOL set to launch more hyperlocal blogs
Elizabeth Redman, Editors Weblog, Feb. 18, 2010
‘User-First’ Issues to Watch For at paidContent Conference Friday
Bill Mitchell, NewsPay, Poynter, Feb. 18, 2010
(Related: Clues in the Rubble: A User-First Framework for Sustaining Local News
Bill Mitchell, Shorenstein Center, Fall 2009)
Civic and Citizen Journalism: Past, Present and Future
Mary Beth Callie, Hot Topics in Journalism & Mass Communication, Jan. 19, 2010
“Fifth Estate” May Describe Pro-Am Journalism
Jack Rosenberry, Dr. Rosenberry’s Page, Jan. 19, 2010
(Related: Big Day in Civic Journalism History
Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group, AEJMC, Feb. 9, 2010)
What is User Generated Content?
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Jan. 15, 2010
Amanda Michel Columns
ProPublica, Apr. 2009-2010
User-Generated Resources
eMedia Vitals, 2010
New SNA report on user-submitted newspaper site content
AIM Group, Dec. 30, 2009
The Big Portals’ Battle For Local
Joseph Tartakoff, paidContent, Dec. 4, 2009
Striking a Balance Between Community Journalism and Citizen Participation:
A Research Study About User-Generated Content on Newspaper Websites
Suburban Newspapers of America, Dec. 2009
LePost.fr: How amateurs produce valuable journalism
Marek Miller, Online Journalism News, Oct. 10, 2009
Peytonplace.com: Bloggers across the country are obsessively chronicling small-town life. Is Maplewood, N.J., ready for its own Bob Woodward?
Johnnie L. Roberts, Newsweek, Oct. 3, 2009
CNN emphasizes community with iPhone app
MediaFile, Reuters, Sep. 28, 2009
Mainstream Media Miss the Point of Participatory Journalism
Alfred Hermida, MediaShift, Sep. 15, 2009
Five News Organizations Join Networked Journalism Project
Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, Aug. 17, 2009
Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
Michael Anderson, Nieman Journalism Lab, Jun. 23, 2009
Washington Taps Into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy
Mark Landler and Brian Stelter, New York Times, Jun. 16, 2009
Jeff Jarvis: User-generated content is the future of newspapers
Soraya Kishtwari, Editors Weblog, Jun. 8, 2009
New Media Makers Toolkit
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism,
Jun. 2, 2009
(Related: Funding Database, Report, Civic Impact Case Studies and Knight Citizen News Network)
Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content and Crowdsourcing
Sarah Lacy, Online Journalism Symposium At UT Austin, Apr. 18, 2009
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
Claire Cain Miller and Brad Stone, New York Times, Apr. 12, 2009
ProPublica joins the pro-am journalism movement
Michele McLellan, Knight Digital Media Center, Mar. 5, 2009
Citizen-Based Media (2009)
State of the Media, Project for Excellence in Journalism, March 2009
Pro-am journalism site Demotix gets facelift
Laura Oliver, Journalism.co.uk, Jan. 5, 2009
ugc@thebcc: Understanding Its Impact Upon Contributors, Non-Contributers and BBC News
Dr. Claire Wardle and Dr. Andrew Williams, BBC, 2008
Newspapers Suddenly Adapt To Social Media; Nearly 60 Percent Offer User-Gen Content
David Kaplan, paidContent, Dec. 19, 2008
(Related: The Use of the Internet by America’s Largest Newspapers (PDF)
Jesse Johnson, The Bivings Report, Dec. 18, 2008)
Thanks to the People Who Worked on OffTheBus; Here’s What Comes Next
Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen, Huffington Post, Nov. 17, 2008
Semi-Pro Journalism Teams Give Alternative View of U.S. Elections
Mark Glaser, MediaShift, Mar. 13, 2008
Citizen Media (2008)
State of the Media, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 2008
A model for the 21st century newsroom pt2: Distributed Journalism
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Oct. 2, 2007
Citizen Media (2007)
State of the Media, Project for Excellence in Journalism, March 2007
New York Times Launches User-Generated Features
Jonathan Dube, CyberJournalist, Feb. 22, 2007
Networked Journalism
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, Jul. 5, 2006
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
Jay Rosen, PressThink, Jun. 27, 2006
(Related: A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism, July 14, 2008)
The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Jeff Howe, Wired, Jun. 2006
(Related: A Guide to ‘Crowdsourcing‘
Knight Citizen News Network)
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AEJMC Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group (and Blog)
Interest group for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Center for Sustainable Journalism
The center aims to ensure that high quality, ethically sound journalism continues to have a vibrant place in our democracy. (Related: PJNet: Public Journalism Network)
J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways for people to participate in public life with projects on innovations in journalism, citizen media, news games, interactive stories, entrepreneurship, research, training, and publications.
J-Lab Projects:
New Voices, offering start-up grants to new citizen media projects.
J-Learning, a how-to site for community publishing.
Knight Citizen News Network, helping citizens and journalists amplify community news.
McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs, addressing issues of opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism.
RTDNA Ethics Guidelines for User-Generated Content
Radio Television Digital News Association
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