It is often the aspiration of many news publishers to use the eyes and ears of their readers to fuel at least some aspect of their coverage. New tools like Storify and Intersect are making crowdsourcing stories easier and more relevant.
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Eulogizing Rye Reflections
Posted by Andrew Pergam on Oct. 20, 2010 in Spotted
Sometimes the time is right. More on the “Anatomy of a Shutdown” for New Hampshire’s Rye Reflections, which is shutting down after a 5-year run. Contrary to what you might expect, it wasn’t a case of running out of money.
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Engage Users, Tout Content, Tease Out Contributors J-Lab Reports on Community News Projects
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 30, 2010 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Community news sites should engage, not just inform, their users; ramp up quickly with social media tools; tease out contributors rather than train a corps of citizen journalists in advance; and invest a lot of sweat equity, according to a new J-Lab report culling lessons learned from five years of funding community
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Let’s Count the Ways …
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jan. 23, 2009 in Blog
The first U.S. forays in citizen media began in earnest only in 2004. Now, as 2008 comes to a close, we need to stop referring to citizen journalism as a monolithic phenomenon and pay closer attention to the many ways it’s evolving.
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J-Lab: $1.4 Million Knight Grant Supports Citizens Media
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 19, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will create a new self-help training site for citizens media projects and continue a pioneering program to seed community news ventures with a new $1.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant will support the building of the Knight
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AEJMC 2005 Luncheon
Posted by admin on Aug. 12, 2005 in Panels
J-Lab held its sixth annual J-Lab luncheon at the AEJMC conference in San Antonio, TX. The theme was “Interactive Journalism Summit: When Consumers Become Creators.”
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Convergent Audiences: When Consumers are Creators
Posted by J-Lab on Apr. 18, 2004 in Speeches
Speaker: Jan Schaffer | Broadcast Educators Association Convention, Las Vegas, NV
Speaker: Jan Schaffer | Broadcast Educators Association Convention, Las Vegas, NV
Presentation by Jan Schaffer April 18, 2004 Broadcast Educators Association convention, Las Vegas, NV.
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