I, Reporter

links for 2006-09-27

• Even in tightly controlled China, anyone can be a reporter | csmonitor.com
  "Eric Zhang, a former staffer at the China Daily news organization based in Beijing, has launched www.molive.cn, a site that lets ordinary people gather news with their camera cellphones."
  (tags: citizen+journalism China mobile photos venues)

links for 2006-09-15

• SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY (The New Yorker)
  The Mass Observation Movement: WWII-era instance of distributed journalism?
  (tags: citizen+journalism history UK research)
• Debuting Sunlighters and the Sunlight Network | Sunlight Foundation
  "There's a pretty neat new project you can find there that you can work on immediately. We also launched a social networking site for Sunlighters -- the commmunity of folks who want to work with us on a regular basis"
  (tags: citizen+journalism forum nonprofits venues social+media tidbits+fodder)
• Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » China: Government’s video-censorship foiled
  "Protestors film the clashes on their cellphones, and upload the clips to Chinese video-sharing sites, but the clips are rapidly taken offline - only to re-appear on other sites"
  (tags: citizen+journalism China government law censorship video tidbits+fodder)

links for 2006-09-14

• USATODAY.com
  "More light is being thrown on Congress, not just by the media and public interest groups, but in the “blogosphere” where Internet users meet. 'It's probably the biggest expansion of government oversight that we'll ever have'”
  (tags: blogs citizen+journalism accountability economics conversation conversational+media good+example government influence+ecology tidbits+fodder)
• Joe Wilcox - Lonelygirl's Lesson
  "Many bloggers or community blogsites specialize in digging out corporate or product secrets, and their genie isn't magically going back into the bottle. Once again, the Web is changing the rules of smart business practice."
  (tags: citizen+journalism business skills secrecy trends)

links for 2006-09-13

• Greater good of revealing sources | Chicago Tribune
  Journalists outing each others' anonymous sources -- good idea. An even better idea for citizen journalists, I think.
  (tags: authenticity credibility accuracy citizen+journalism journalism mainstream+media media newspapers influence+ecology)
• Lonelygirl15 Outed::Matt Foremski's Sleuthing Leads to Jessica Rose | PBS
  Ok, the topic is trivial, but the techniques Matt Foremski used here would be useful to any journalist, citizen or pro.
  (tags: citizen+journalism journalism resources research skills tidbits+fodder)