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Wikileaks and Publishers to Partner on Whistleblower Stories
Written by Dana Oshiro / October 9, 2009 1:16 PM / 0 Comments
Best known as a site that indexes and verifies leaked documents, Wikileaks exists as a space where whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers can speak out against corruption without fear of employer Continue reading »


Four Tools for Crowdsourced Funding
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 25, 2009 5:00 AM / 6 Comments
If you're familiar with the overseas micro-lending space, then you're familiar with Kiva. In 2008, ReadWriteWeb readers chose Kiva as one of their favorite Web 2.0 apps. In 2009, the Continue reading »


News Registry: The Associated Press is Watching
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 24, 2009 9:08 AM / 1 Comments
The Associated Press is set to create a news registry to protect their online content from copyright violations. The organization amassed critics on the issue after a number of DMCA Continue reading »


Citizen Journalism Gets a Cash Infusion
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 14, 2009 5:29 PM / 1 Comments
Tonight, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Knight Foundation has just awarded a total of $5 million to a number of local journalism projects in the U.S. These projects Continue reading »


And You Thought the Tech Blog Echo Chamber was Bad
Written by Josh Catone / June 9, 2008 10:00 AM / 9 Comments
You see it happen every day: a story breaks on Techmeme, and 30 minutes later, the headline is followed up by tens of "discussion links." Some bloggers weigh in just Continue reading »


YouTube Launches Citizen Journalism Channel, Citizen News
Written by Sarah Perez / May 20, 2008 8:00 AM / 1 Comments
On Sunday, a YouTube blog post introduced us to Olivia, YouTube's recently hired News Manager. She's going to be in charge of a new Channel on YouTube called Citizen News. Continue reading »


Link Journalism: Is Linking to News a form of Journalism?
Written by Josh Catone / February 26, 2008 2:00 AM / 12 Comments
Scott Karp attempted to coin a new term on his Publishing2 blog today: link journalism. "Link journalism is linking to other reporting on the web to enhance, complement, source, or Continue reading »


CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site
Written by Josh Catone / February 11, 2008 11:43 AM / 9 Comments
We've been writing a lot about the trend of media companies paying more attention to citizen journalism and amateur reporting tools. Perhaps no mainstream media outlet has done more to Continue reading »


Keeping Tabs on Super Tuesday
Written by Josh Catone / February 5, 2008 2:30 PM / 5 Comments
Today is so-called "Super Tuesday" in the US. Voters in 24 states are heading to the polls -- including in large population states like New York, California, and Illinois -- Continue reading »


MTV Election Coverage is a Coup for Citizen Journalism
Written by Josh Catone / January 31, 2008 10:11 AM / 7 Comments
As part of MTV's coverage of the 2008 presidential elections in the US, the media network assembled a "street team" of 51 amateur journalists -- one in each state and Continue reading »


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