Citizen Media

Redbankgreen.com

http://www.redbankgreen.com/

Redbankgreen.com (Red Bank, N.J.)

A visually rich, smartly-written, hyperlocal site for the New Jersey coastal town of Red Bank. Run by a husband and wife team and a freelancer, the site gets 8,500 page views per week.

Current Journalism

http://www.current.tv/

Current TV (San Francisco)

Hybrid Web-tv short form documentary work by citizen and professional journalists, targeting the 18-34 year old demographic, is posted on the Web site. Users rate the videos and their favorites are aired on Current TV’s satellite and cable stations in the U.S. and U.K.

Content aggregating system/Citizen publishing solution

http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/all.aspx

The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati)

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Post and 27 weeklies created a site to aggregate their content and incorporate citizen photos, videos and stories. It now has 222 community sites and 2,000+ stories per week. The system was developed and deployed without additional staffing.

Voice of Vashon

http://www.voiceofvashon.org/

Voice of Vashon (Vashon, Wash.)

An independent community media project offering Webcast radio, a public access TV station and an EBS radio signal. Volunteers from the community create much of the content on air and built a studio to keep the project up and running.

BlufftonToday.com

http://www.blufftontoday.com/

Bluffton Today (Bluffton, S.C.)

One of the first citizen-generated news projects, this site gives each registered user a free blog and photo album and ability to participate in share community calendar. The goal is “a community in conversation with itself.” The Web site provides user-generated content for a print newspaper and has more than 8,500 registered users in a community of about 17,000. The site averages 10 new signups per day and 95% of the market reads it.

Melrose Mirror On-Line

http://melrosemirror.media.mit.edu/servlet/pluto

SilverStringers (Melrose, Mass.)

The SilverStringers, a senior citizens group, write, edit and publish the Melrose Mirror to provide community news in an online format. Supported by MIT, the reporting teams cover range of news not covered by other local newspapers.

Paulding.com

http://www.paulding.com/forum/index.php?act=home

Paulding.com (Paulding County, Ga.)

Paulding.com is a 3-year-old citizen news site covering Paulding County, Ga., that now has over 108,000 topics and 1.3 million posts. The site uses online forums for user-submitted news and discussion rather than the blog-style system that many other citizen media sites use.

Valhalla Community Voices

http://valhallacommunityvoices.com/

ValhallaCommunityVoices.com (White Plains, N.Y.)

ValhallaCommunityVoices.com was created as an online monthly newspaper for residents of Westchester County, N.Y., using a blog format. The site touts itself as providing the residents of the Valhalla School District “a venue to learn about issues, events and achievements.”

RyeReflections.org

http://ryereflections.org/servlet/pluto

Rye Reflections (Rye, N.H.)

This group of mostly seniors publishing the citmeida site RyeReflections.org showcase how they have advanced their storytelling and photo skills in covering major storms hitting the N.H. seacoast. Citizen stories, images contributed to packages produced by staff under extraordinary circumstances.

The Associated Press and NowPublic.com

http://www.nowpublic.com/

The Associated Press (New York)

A partnership with The Associated Press and start-up NowPublic.com is starting to provide credible citizen journalism to AP for global distribution. AP asserts it’s a radically different way for the organization to create a global network of citizen journalists and connect them to mainstream media.

The Forum

http://www.forumhome.org/

Philbrick James Forum (Deerfield, N.H.)

$1,000 Citizen Media Award

“It’s a testament to their vision and grit that their community now thanks them for reporting the news.”
—2007 Knight-Batten Judges

An all-volunteer online newspaper for Deerfield, N.H., that in two years has become the major source of news for three rural communities. In a readership area of 7,000 homes, it has more than 200 bylined contributors and average 37 original articles per week, excluding obituaries, classifieds, letters to the editor and events listings.

User-generated Content 2.0: Reader-driven investigative Journalism

http://www.news-press.net/data/

The News-Press/news-press.com (Ft. Myers, Fla.)

“This is a classic case that will go down in journalism history of how to bring investigative journalism to the public.”“
—2007 Knight-Batten Judges

Fort Myers News-Press offers its crowdsourcing citizen participation program, which has broken several stories, and its newer Team Watchdog program that brings together 20 readers with expertise in finance, accounting,, criminal justice and other subjects to help with both daily and blockbuster watchdog reporting.
Its biggest crowdsourcing project on local utilities drew 6,577 user posts.

Collected Entries: Lake Tahoe Explorations, Nevada Matters, Our Tahoe

Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada-Reno (Reno, Nev.)

“This is a school that is preparing students for a future anchored in the belief that journalism and democracy are deeply related.”
—2007 Knight-Batten Judges

Student-built sites providing multiple non-linear stories and games to explore the area and community of Tahoe. An effort to provide an opportunity for readers to establish a sense of place and community.

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