Comments on: Yahoo launches citizen journalism site http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/2006/12/07/yahoo-launches-citizen-journalism-site/ Covering new companies and people in the Web 2.0 world Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Kare Anderson http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/2006/12/07/yahoo-launches-citizen-journalism-site/#comment-3385 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:09:37 +0000 http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/2006/12/07/yahoo-launches-citizen-journalism-site/#comment-3385 Davie Bowie funded a version of this years ago, to put cameras in the hands of people around the world who were willing to photograph examples of human rights abuses, unwittingly the precursors of this flood of image-based citizen reportage. As an Emmy-winning former NBC 7 Wall Street Journal reporter I am overjoyed to live in a time when people can bear witness to the news they see. It will make censorship increasingly difficult - when images can come from so many places and people. Yes, the mis-use, invasion of privacy and other issues will continue yet i believe the upside in our world-as-village will force everyone to learn more about the larger world. At a time when Russian journalists (that's plural) are getting poisoned and torture is happening outside the law, citizen journalism - in all its levels of astuteness and perspectives - will show mroe authentic sides of life as we know it now than any gimmikcy "reality" show. Here's to even more competition among firms that will host the images. - Kare, SavvyHer.com Davie Bowie funded a version of this years ago, to put cameras in the hands of people around the world who were willing to photograph examples of human rights abuses, unwittingly the precursors of this flood of image-based citizen reportage.

As an Emmy-winning former NBC 7 Wall Street Journal reporter I am overjoyed to live in a time when people can bear witness to the news they see. It will make censorship increasingly difficult - when images can come from so many places and people.

Yes, the mis-use, invasion of privacy and other issues will continue yet i believe the upside in our world-as-village will force everyone to learn more about the larger world. At a time when Russian journalists (that’s plural) are getting poisoned and torture is happening outside the law, citizen journalism - in all its levels of astuteness and perspectives - will show mroe authentic sides of life as we know it now than any gimmikcy “reality” show.

Here’s to even more competition among firms that will host the images.
- Kare, SavvyHer.com

]]> by: mike aronson http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/2006/12/07/yahoo-launches-citizen-journalism-site/#comment-3351 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:49:41 +0000 http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/2006/12/07/yahoo-launches-citizen-journalism-site/#comment-3351 The examples you cite (Tazer/Richards Racial Remarks) were merely people recording events as they happened. Hardly "journalism". One of the great myths of the Blogosphere and so called "citizen" journalists (with zero qualifications) is that they actually have something to say.' The good news is there is very little "citizen journalism" being heard above the noise. And that's where the vast majority of it belongs. In the noise. The examples you cite (Tazer/Richards Racial Remarks) were merely people recording events as they happened. Hardly “journalism”. One of the great myths of the Blogosphere and so called “citizen” journalists (with zero qualifications) is that they actually have something to say.’

The good news is there is very little “citizen journalism” being heard above the noise. And that’s where the vast majority of it belongs. In the noise.

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