I'm at the National Newspaper Association annual meeting in Oklahoma City, where I'm scoping out citizen media interest among community newspapers around the country. Before I post about that, though, I had some highlights from the Online News Association annual gathering in DC last week, where much of the citizen media discussion came at the “Developing New Voices” panel I organized.
Here are a bunch of items worth noting:
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One of the more dynamic presentations of the morning was that of Lisa Williams from H20Town, who focused on what she termed “placeblogs,” sites that she said are about the “lived experience of a place” as opposed to the “news” of the place. Williams argues that although their growth is little recognized, placeblogs are exploding – 648 at last count. As a matter of fact, she showed the group a mockup of a new directory of placeblog sites called Placeblogger.com, which will include headlines from each.
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Two founders of hyperlocal start-ups, in their talks in the first session at the Citizens Media Summit, both emphasized the importance and need for training of citizen journalists.
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One of the issues I hope to see addressed at today’s summit (and which we explicitly organized the ONA Developing New Voices panel to tackle) is the question of how citizen media works at different geographic scales – national, regional, local and hyperlocal.
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J-Lab’s great citizen journalism summit is soon to be underway here in Washington, D.C., and I’ll be in attendance and helping moderate through the day. I’m glad to say that this year’s program has the support of the Online News Association ...
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