Citizen Journalism

Collective Journalism

http://current.com/topics/511_collective_journalism;jsessionid=41A459B9881016578BEB2B6B167C8A02

Current TV, San Francisco

Current TV’s citizen journalism program gathers information from Current’s social networking site, Current.com, to build stories that then go on Current TV and the Web site. Current uses an online assignment board - usually full of ideas suggested by users - to post story ideas and keep everyone on the same page. Users can then contribute with something as basic as tips or written first-hand experiences, or as complex as eye-witness video. This information and video is vetted and put together into one video news feature rather than posted separately like many other CitMedia sites.

FirstPerson on msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16712587/

msnbc.com, Redmond, Wash.

The FirstPerson collection showcases citizen reporters, photojournalists and video journalists. The site allows users to participate in discussions surrounding the news through message boards, live votes and predictions, blog comments, and links to a whole community news site, Newsvine.com. The project is a cooperative citizen journalism effort between NBC News and msnbc.com. It solicits breaking news reports from users and funnels those reports to the news desks of the television network and Web site.

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