links for 2006-01-15

• The Blogging Journalist: Bowing to the Chicago Sun-Times' Wishes
  "If you click on The Chicago Daily News, Chicago's experiment in daily, citizen journalism, you will get the following message: 'The Chicago Sun-Times, Inc., has requested that PublicMedia, Inc. cease its use of the www.chicagodailynews.org domain name.'"
  (tags: citizen+journalism chicago venues newspapers law conflict problem+solving content+rights)
• Ted Koppel, Iceman (Ed Batista)
  "There's more than one kind of phony hucksterism. The stone-faced ignorance of reality that passes for "objectivity" in a disturbingly large number of broadcast pieces and newspaper articles is bullshit of the highest order, and we all know it. "
  (tags: citizen+journalism credibility authenticity objectivity emotions commentary)
• Gather Aims to Build a Blog Content Marketplace (Micro Persuasion)
  "As the Boston Globe notes, it's going to be very difficult for these guys to succeed with this model. As I have said previously, a Web 2.0 crash is coming. The online ad market isn't big enough to support this site."
  (tags: citizen+journalism blogs business economics web2.0 trends problems)
• Why There Isn't More Narrative Journalism in Newspapers and how CitJ can Help | Journalism Hope
  "The dailies are looking for characters, and I immediately thought about how Citizen Journalism could possibly help with the lack of immersion journalism and/or literary journalism in the world today."
  (tags: citizen+journalism storytelling mainstream+media problem+solving content+quality our+comments)
• Chicago's independent news source (The Daily News)
  "If your article or photo is the most viewed on the site during the month that you post it, we'll cut you a check for $100." Not great pay, but it's better than zero.
  (tags: citizen+journalism chicago economics content+quality skills)
• Journalism Tutorial (MIT)
  A series of tips on reporting that are useful for any citizen journalist.
  (tags: resources citizen+journalism skills)
• Public Blogging: Let's Do Away With the Walled Gardens | Journalism Hope
  "Steve Outing at E-Media TidBits: Public Blogging: Let's Do Away With the Walled Gardens - When I saw this, I thought about Amy Gahran's recent comment about the Berlin Wall."
  (tags: citizen+journalism blogs newspapers business content+strategy)