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Steve Jobs Had No Heart Attack...And Citizen Journalism Just Failed
Written by Sarah Perez / October 3, 2008 1:00 PM / 44 Comments

What could possibly be bigger news than the supposed heart attack suffered by Apple CEO Steve Jobs? The fact that it's simply not true. The rumor which spread like wildfire

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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

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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.

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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

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Commuter Feed Uses Twitter for Localized Traffic Reports
Written by Josh Catone / February 22, 2008 9:44 PM / 8 Comments

Twitter was originally designed as an app that would allow people to share information about what they were doing within a distributed group setting. It's something akin to a collection

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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

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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

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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse
Written by Josh Catone / January 30, 2008 1:11 PM / 17 Comments

For 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a meteoric rise

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New York Times High on Citizen Journalism Tools
Written by Josh Catone / January 21, 2008 10:02 AM / 2 Comments

The New York Times ran two stories today affirming the usefulness of citizen journalists and microjournalism tools to the reporting of major news stories. In October we reported that citizen

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