I, Reporter

links for 2006-07-20

• Man on the street reporting: homeless blogger takes reins at blog sponsored by TV station | Center for Citizen Media: Blog
  "WKRN: Each weekend, the station pays $100 to a local blogger to keep the site ticking over Saturday and Sunday. The site’s most recent weekend host was Kevin Barbieux, who blogs at The Homeless Guy."
  (tags: blogs diversity community economics Tennessee society tidbits+fodder)

links for 2006-07-13

• PressThink: Users-Know-More-than-We-Do Journalism: My Session at BloggerCon IV, June 23
  "IDon’t expect to debate whether it’s desirable or possible to do reporting in the “distributed” style. We’ll assume that it is desirable (because we need better journalism) and it is possible (or why did god give us the Internet?)"
  (tags: citizen+journalism conversation collaboration community events media+evolution journalism editing)

links for 2006-07-06

• Great journalists call (Scobleizer)
  "Bloggers rarely call before writing. It's something I hope we can change. Call before running the story. It's what great journalists do."
  (tags: blogs citizen+journalism journalism content+quality credibility tidbits+fodder)

YouTube: a Citizen Journalism Channel?

I just wrote an item for Poynter's E-Media Tidbits blog about how NBC has recently decided to use YouTube to promote its fall lineup of TV shows.

According to a June 27 InformationWeek article, NBC "would create an official NBC channel on YouTube that would include a 'Fall Preview' area. In addition, the channel would be used to promote other programming."

Gee -- wouldn't it be cool to start a channel for citJ videos on YouTube?...