Knowledge: resources
See Also:
- arts → writers resources → non-fiction → journalism
- computers → internet → on the web → weblogs → resources
Links
- Center for Citizen Media
http://www.citmedia.org/ - Founded by Dan Gillmor, the nonprofit center aims at helping to enable grassroots media at every level. Lists current projects.
- Watchdogging 101: A How-To Guide for Citizen Oversight
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/watchdogging101 - Tools and questions supporting citizen journalism. Enables citizens to learn more about what the U.S. Congress and their elected representatives do.
- BBC Training & Development: Good Shooting Guide
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?tID=5914&cat=3 - The BBC shares its training materials through this online course detailing the basic principles on shooting news video.
- Our Media: Personal Media Learning Center
http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center - Provides "how-to" guides for videoblogs, podcasts, and filing multi-media news stories. Also offers a repository of audio, video and photo content, and an open media directory.
- Wikinews: Original reporting
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting - Offers guidelines for reporters. Covers sourcing, disclosure of potential conflicts, and preparing for interviews.
- J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
http://www.j-lab.org/ - Active organization promoting the development, study and training of participatory journalists.
- The Largemouth Citizen Journalism Manual
http://www.mcgillreport.org/largemouth.htm - Documents five steps to becoming a citizen journalist. Compiled by a group of professional journalists who volunteer time to teach anyone the skills to produce accurate, compelling news reports.
- SourceWatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ - Collaborative directory of people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. Catalogs PR firms, activist groups and government agencies, along with the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives.
- Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 - Published by "Reporters Without Borders" and offering advice on how to start a weblog. Covers ethical guidelines, recommends tools, and provides technical ways on how to get around censorship. [PDF].
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ - Nonprofit group working to protect digital rights. Offers information about legal issues related to intellectual property (copyrights), privacy, access to public records, defamation (libel), election and labor law, and obscenity issues.
- I, Reporter
http://www.ireporter.org/ - Weblog devoted to citizen journalism, run by freelance writer/editors Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn. Offers tips and examples.
- The Pew Center For Civic Journalism
http://www.pewcenter.org/ - An incubator to help stimulate citizen involvement in community issues. Guidelines for funding, lists projects, research, plus entry details for the Batten Award for Civic Journalism.
- Flickr: Photojournalism 2.0
http://www.flickr.com/groups/photojournalism/ - Group sharing and discussing citizen and collaborative photojournalism assignments.
- Flickr: CNNExchange
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cnnexchange/ - Share photos of breaking news. Best are selected to be highlighted at CNN.com in its "I-Reports" section.
- I-Report Toolkit: Trade Secrets
http://edition.cnn.com/exchange/ireports/toolkit/tips.html - Tips on how to take great photos, videos, and audio when reporting. Also available as PDF.
- Scoopt
http://www.scoopt.com/ - Media agency helping citizen journalists sell newsworthy photographs and videos to the press. Tips, pick of the day, FAQs, and weblog.
- NewAssignment.net
http://newassignment.net/ - Edited by David Cohn, this an experiment in open-source reporting tracks developments in interactive journalism.
- Online Journalism Review
http://www.ojr.org/ - Covers issues about online news worldwide. Resource for news industry leaders, publishers, editors, bloggers, educators and anyone watching trends in news-gathering.
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