Socialreporter

The RSA has provided a bit more information on their Journalism Network, started with the Reuters Institute of Journalism . As I wrote earlier it will be developed on an internal RSA site. It aims to “support the civic function of news” but will be focussed, says RSA staff member Rosie Anderson, on working, professional [...]

British journalism professor Adrian Monck gives us a summary, on his blog, of his forthcoming book Can You Trust The Media?

The first two chapters look in detail at the recent crises in trust – the what, who, when, where and why of the events that have brought this issue to dominate so much of the [...]

Charlie Beckett has been reading the Pew Report on American Media, which includes a research survey of 25 news sites and 39 blogs that might be considered Citizen Journalism. He writes:
The survey found incredible diversity but it also found that Citizen Journalism can be even less accessible to the public than mainstream media. Now [...]

Two stories illustrate why is may be more valuable to be in lots of different places online, than on a conventional web site. First BBC journalist and online community expert Robin Hamman recaps a meeting about taking TV content and discussion online:
The other day I met with some work colleagues to discuss their proposal for [...]

I found some convergence in two very different blogs on the value of what-used-to-be-readers in the age of diminishing newspaper sales and trust in journalists.
Ted Leonsis - US sports team owner, former AOL executive, film producer and much else - offers a Ten Point Plan to Revinent The Newspaper Business.
He starts with 1. Get [...]

The RSA is launching an RSA Journalism Network, with this introduction from Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship:
The public’s declining trust in the news media is a worrying trend. The RSA and the Reuters Institute of Journalism are looking at how we can support the civic function [...]

The Economist sees little future for walled garden social networking sites like Facebook and Second Life if they continue to restrict the flow of content across the Internet. A few years back we had AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy each providing their own subscription-based services, and look what happened to them:
Why stay within a closed community [...]

One of the questions that Clay Shirky was asked when he spoke recently at the RSA about the role of online networks was how to tackle social exclusion, and connect people to greater opportunities. His answer: concentrate on those who can make connections, rather than trying to fund the excluded directly to connect with [...]

I already have a blog, which I’ve been writing since 2003. So why  start another one? Partly because Designing for Civil Society feels a bit limiting; I do write a lot there about nonprofits, community engagement, e-democracy and the like, but I’m now more  interested in the way social media is changing how we organise, [...]

I started thinking back in October 2006 about “social reporter” as a useful label for what I might do with a mix of social media tools and face-to-face activities.
As a role social reporter could sit with knowledge activist, technology steward, collaboration co-ordinator as a description for someone exploring how to do good stuff with [...]