Briggs Ch. 3 – ‘Crowd-Powered Collaboration’

This chapter showed the power of the people…in journalism.

Citizen journalism

Terms:

• Crowdsourcing/distributed reporting – demonstrates committed power of the community for a project
• Open-source reporting – using transparency in reporting
• Pro-am journalism – journalists are no longer the gatekeepers and let the audience publish on the same platform as themselves.
• Beatblogging – build a social network around traditional news beat then bring the leaders and listen to what they have to say.
• Link journalism – linking to the competition’s sites.
• “Citizen journalism” – concept where the public/readers publish their stories. Showed that print was still appealing to the readers.

An amusing cartoon on Crowdsourcing