You might think that there’s too much news content out there already. And it’s struggling to find a model to pay for it. But is it possible to find a way to discover fresh, quality material from ‘non-professionals’ that might satisfy a need for something different? And how could the huge potential for critical, creative journalism be harnessed while also encouraging rigour, honesty and professionalism? A new online media platform just launched in beta, Crowdpondent.com, is attempting to do this by crowdsourcing journalism. Dean Forrester,@ForresterDean, journalist and Chief Content Manager of the new website, explains
The digitization of journalistic practice, which took off notably with the growing popularity of onl...
Democracy depends on a vivid public sphere, where ideas disseminate into the public and can be discu...
Crowdsourcing is less a new idea than a new concept. It covers a wide array of tools that use the po...
The era of journalism and the participation of the readers on online media websites have changed onl...
Surely what the world needs right now is more paid journalists working with the public to improve th...
The term “crowdsourcing” has been around for a decade. Although Wired writer Jeff Howe coined it in ...
The authors consider such a new and important phenomenon today as New Media, citizen journalism and ...
The media environment has changed dramatically in the last few years. Audience fragmentation and onl...
The marketplace of ideas has been a centerpiece of free speech jurisprudence for a century. Accordin...
This paper is a preliminary review of the role and importance of crowdsourcing in contemporary media...
MARGARET SIMONS looks at the results of an experiment in online reporting launched by Jay Rosen WAN...
Journalism is not going to disappear. As author Michael Schudson observed, if there were not journal...
Imagine a media organization without ownership, hierarchy, advertisement, where every journalist is ...
A crucial question that has arisen is whether the involvement of Web users can be extended to the fu...
Today’s digital environment has revolutionized the way journalism is manufactured and consumed. Rece...
The digitization of journalistic practice, which took off notably with the growing popularity of onl...
Democracy depends on a vivid public sphere, where ideas disseminate into the public and can be discu...
Crowdsourcing is less a new idea than a new concept. It covers a wide array of tools that use the po...
The era of journalism and the participation of the readers on online media websites have changed onl...
Surely what the world needs right now is more paid journalists working with the public to improve th...
The term “crowdsourcing” has been around for a decade. Although Wired writer Jeff Howe coined it in ...
The authors consider such a new and important phenomenon today as New Media, citizen journalism and ...
The media environment has changed dramatically in the last few years. Audience fragmentation and onl...
The marketplace of ideas has been a centerpiece of free speech jurisprudence for a century. Accordin...
This paper is a preliminary review of the role and importance of crowdsourcing in contemporary media...
MARGARET SIMONS looks at the results of an experiment in online reporting launched by Jay Rosen WAN...
Journalism is not going to disappear. As author Michael Schudson observed, if there were not journal...
Imagine a media organization without ownership, hierarchy, advertisement, where every journalist is ...
A crucial question that has arisen is whether the involvement of Web users can be extended to the fu...
Today’s digital environment has revolutionized the way journalism is manufactured and consumed. Rece...
The digitization of journalistic practice, which took off notably with the growing popularity of onl...
Democracy depends on a vivid public sphere, where ideas disseminate into the public and can be discu...
Crowdsourcing is less a new idea than a new concept. It covers a wide array of tools that use the po...