Directory of Resources Resources

Home > News > Media Industry > Participatory > Resources

Lists resources for Citizen Journalism - also known as participatory journalism - and provides background on how private citizens can playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information.

Resources in This Category

• CitizenSide

  http://www.citizenside.com/
  Press agency for citizen reporters to sell photographs and videos worldwide. Also offers buyers guide for digital cameras and camcorders. Partly owned by Agence France presse. [In English and French].

• 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.

• 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.

• Flickr: Photojournalism 2.0

  http://www.flickr.com/groups/photojournalism/
  Group sharing and discussing citizen and collaborative photojournalism assignments.

• 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.

• J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism

  http://www.j-lab.org/
  Active organization promoting the development, study and training of participatory journalists.

• 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.

• Pew Research Center - Journalism & Media

  http://www.journalism.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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Related Categories

• Home > Arts > Movies > Filmmaking > Online Venues
• Home > Computers > Internet > On the Web > Weblogs > Resources
• Home > News > Journalism > Resources
• Home > Arts > Writers Resources > Non-Fiction

 

Home > News > Media Industry > Participatory > Resources

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us