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Innovations in Journalism – ScribbleSheet
1) Who are you and what’s it all about? I am John Ndege, co-founder of ScribbleSheet. ScribbleSheet is a citizen journalism site that focuses on contrarian opinions and unreported news typically with...
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Innovations in Journalism – Orato.com
Each week we give technology developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are are working on. This week it’s citizen journalism...
View ArticleDigital Journal launches revenue sharing for its citizen journalists
Digital Journal has relaunched its citizen journalism site, which now includes a revenue sharing initiative for citizen journalists. Regular contributors to the site can now qualify for a share of the...
View ArticleCitizen journalism site NowPublic adds new features
Canadian website NowPublic.com has introduced a host of new features to the site to ‘raise the bar for trust and credibility’ for citizen journalism, a press release from the site has said. A new...
View ArticleCitizen journalism website Helium.com secures $17m investment
Citizen journalism site Helium.com has secured $17millon in funding. According to a press release from businesswire.com, the financial backing is from an international group of investors led by...
View ArticleDNA09 – Economically distressed but making the most of it
It started off bleakly, but the talk got more positive as the participants warmed up. These are four digital leaders, driving forward ambitious online projects in their respective countries: Eric...
View ArticleBeatBlogging.org: ‘Mini experts in a major network’ at AllVoices.com
AllVoices.com is a citizen journalism site, and Amra Tareen’s ‘answer to closed, controlled traditional media.’ It was launched in July 2008 ‘with the goal of including as many people as possible,’...
View ArticleDemotix: Images of the Guatemalan tweeter arrested for causing ‘financial panic’
Guatemalan twitter user ‘Jeanfer’ was arrested and accused being causing ‘financial panic’, because of opinions posted on Twitter, reports Demotix user Surizar. Demotix, the citizen journalism site,...
View ArticleCNN’s iReport attracts nearly 4,000 submissions on Iranian elections
The role of amateurs, citizen journalists and non-professional media in the coverage of the Iranian elections and subsequent protests has been significant, both in its provision of material and insight...
View ArticlepaidContent.org: Cit-J site NowPublic sold to Examiner.com
NowPublic, the international citizen journalism site launched by Canadian entrepreneur Leonard Brody in 2005, is to be sold to Examiner.com – the US network of local, city-based news sites....
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New Guardian community platform n0tice invites more users
n0tice, the Guardian’s latest community project, has today opened to more users. The platform is an online version of a village noticeboard, allowing people to post and find community news and...
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