Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The 11 layers of citizen journalism
I really liked the idea the author brought up in the 5th layer of his article. I think every paper which is online should have each of their reporters create a blog so people can comment on their articles and they would be able to justify what they have written. I think when a paper is transparent it increases the credibility of the paper and what is written in it. I think it would also give reporters a little more of a break if they make an honest mistake. They would have a chance to say what happened and people may forgive them. I also think it would be easy enough for online newspapers to have a link next to their stories with related citizen written stories about the same subject. I think you would have to read over them to make sure they relate to the topic but I think you should let the people write how they want to. I think it will give the readers an idea on how reliable the citizen journalist is.
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Hi. So transparency would apply to the citizen journalists, as well? Good suggestion to help other readers evaluate the information from this source.
Try changing your Prefence Settings tabs to allow more people in to read and author in your blog. Then you might get comments from others because I can read and respond.
I also really like the idea of having a link where people can contribute/make corrections to stories. Like you said, then honest mistakes made by reporters could be cleared up by those who knew better. Also, people could contribute any inside information that they knew of to the story. I think it's also important for people to be able to get out what they want to say, and this time of blogging journalism would allow them to do so.
"I think every paper which is online should have each of their reporters create a blog so people can comment on their articles and they would be able to justify what they have written."
I agree that this is something definitely worth considering. Like you said, a reporter's blog could serve as a forum where, among other things, the reporter could a) correct mistakes and b) explain how mistakes happened. The more transparency and openness, the better.
I really like both of your ideas. I think they both could only help with citizen journalism. Commenting and adding own stories along side "actual" reported stories I think would help give a second view from a different source to the readers.
I am not sure I agree with the idea of a blog being beneficial to the writer when they make a mistake. More often than not people are not forgiving on mistakes even if a person owns up to it. Also not all that many people who read a newspaper even go online to look at a blog so it probably wouldn't afford them the best option.
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