Kyle MacRae on citizen journalism
"Sweet Jesus! Apple has just revolutionized citizen journalism with their AP app for iPhone"
Well, that's according to @tacomasha on Twitter. @tonysteward is more restrained - Okay, the AP iPhone app is legit, it will take citizen journalism to a whole new level. Exciting! As is @miguelmanalo - Dude AP on-the-go citizen journalism? Kickass....
The gorilla wades in
YouTube is launching Citizen News (from RWW) The CitizenNews channel is where we'll be highlighting some of the best news content on YouTube. If you see examples of great journalism and reporting being done by your fellow YouTubers, let me...
The need for a niche
There's something genuinely touching about Michael Rosemblum's testimony to Ken Krushel. Together they devised CitizeNews, and launched it last summer: Then we went out to try and raise money for it. It was not easy. We were late. After Youtube...
Guest post: John Kelly
John Kelly is an American journalist currently living in Oxford - and on a mission: I'm studying citizen journalism, a buzzword which basically applies to anyone who isn't like me doing what it is that I do. You can read...
Cash for (second-hand) content?
A week ago, TechCrunch reviewed DigitalJournal's citizen journalism relaunch. The thrust of the piece was the revenue share for contributors: Digital Journal offers a Citizen Journalism site in a similar fashion to Instablogs, OhMyNews, Newsvine, Norg Media and others. Members...
iMobile.com already gone? Nevermind...
Another mainstream entrant into the citizen journalism space, this time from CBS and sporting one of the worst URLs yet - http://www.cbseyemobile.com. That's 'eye' as in 'i' as in 'iMobile', of course. Snappy strapline, too: At first glance, it's much...
$4.6m... for, erm, what?
Citizen journalism outfit CJReport.com is suitably chuffed to raise $4.6m in funding from Sequoia Capital, an a+ venture capital company. So what does CJReport.com do? On CJReport, anyone can edit (even anonymously) and start contributing to stories in the usual...
MSM moves qik-ly for once
In an earlier post, I echoed Steve Outing's assumption that mainstream media would be characteristically slow to adapt to and adopt the potential of live video from mobile phones. So it was a surprise and a pleasure to read about...
Kyle MacRae on citizen journalism:
Kyle MacRae is a journalist and member of the Frontline Club. He founded Scoopt, the world's first commercial citizen journalism...