Comments on: Citizen Journalism

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:57:06 +0000

@Anne & @Miranda I agree with you. I’m originally PR turned professional blogger/freelance writer. I don’t know how to encourage proper cross pollination, but I think that no matter what, this is the way the world is going.

@Miranda – my concern is also the fact that many citizen journalists don’t fact check or stick to the same ethics they should. I do, but many don’t.

By: Citizen Journalism and the Cross Pollination of Ideas

Citizen Journalism and the Cross Pollination of Ideas — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:06:18 +0000

[...] another b5media blog, has a post today called: Citizen Journalism. It highlights the Center for Citizen Media, which is new to me, then goes on to talk about the [...]

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:12:52 +0000

As a classically trained journalist turned professional blogger, I see some problems. While it is good to have multiple sources of information, few “citizen journalists” do such things as check their facts or adhere to common journalistic principles.

Really, one thing that scares me is that traditional journalism institutions are lowering their own standards in order to compete with citizen journalists for “scoops.”

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:18:28 +0000

Although I’m not opposed to Citizen Journalism, what I am afraid of is that the more we move toward that exclusively, the more concerned I become that we each end up both preaching and hearing only our own choir…. although cross pollination of ideas is certainly possible with blogs, in truth I tend to subscribe to those which reflect mostly my own interests and ideas… that’s pretty narrow… and it takes real effort to break out of it.

So the question for me is how do we encourage real cross pollination?