citizen

Topix, the local news aggregator that is owned by several big U.S. newspaper chains (Gannett, The Tribune and McClatchy), is doing what amounts to a relaunch of the site and adding “citizen journalism” or social media to the mix, as well as moving to a dot-com domain (it used to be dot-net). Founder and CEO Rich Skrenta — who describes on his personal blog how this came out of an attempt to “de-suckify” the site — has a blog post at Topix about the changes, and says:

Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post is working on a “citizen media” venture with NewAssignment.net (which I wrote about in an earlier post), has an interesting perspective on the future of newspapers in a recent post.

I'm sure there are many out there who ask or are asked this question, and many have not yet found a consistent answer.

Dan Gillmor plans to establish a non-profit center to support grassroots citizen journalism in 2006, and will be affiliated with UC Berkeley and Harvard University.

An InfoWorld writer blogged about the potential problems that could arise from the growth in "citizen journalism," but the real problems come from elsewhere.

iPod says "Hello Moto." At least, The New York Times is cautiously suggesting it will ....

Over the past few months Yahoo has been recruiting a slew of veteran online journalists.

John Naughton, in today's Guardian: Why I have serious doubts about the 'citizen reporters'...