Comments on: Foreign reporting in the digital age

By: quest4psnjustice

quest4psnjustice — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:28:50 +0000

[...] interested in foreign correspondence. Digital media have made the job easier for foreign correspondents. There are a multitude of [...]

By: Robert Buckman

Robert Buckman — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:50:54 +0000

Interesting, but it’s an old concept. They were called STRINGERS. Remember? The only thing new is that these poor bastards apparently are willing to work for free. That’s not a very reliable source of in formation. Also, how do we ride herd on the accuracy of their foreign reporting to make sure there’s not a Jack Kelley in the bunch? I’ll withhold my cheering for now. RTB

By: The future of journalism: Will journalists be paying out of their own pockets? | Online Journalism Blog

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:49:36 +0000

[...] his stories. Motlagh is part of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis reporting, which I wrote about in a previous post; the nonprofit is covering stories that traditional American media are not covering for want of [...]

By: karthikaswamy

karthikaswamy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:06:29 +0000

@ Andy – thanks for the info on the site. I agree this post was predominantly US-centric

@ Timo – there is certainly a very real worry that articles with the most popularity ratings or videos that go viral generally tend to be of little journalistic value, but we can hope that in the case of Web sites with a more targeted audience, due to the nature of readers, the popularity and traffic will be due to more substantial reasons. For instance a site that is predominantly political would pick an article that is in-depth and analytical.

@ Ben – this was never intended to be a review; it’s an overview of the kinds of citizen sites that are taking up international reporting – something very relevant to the US where foreign reporting has declined drastically due to the closure of worldwide bureaus.

By: Ben Parker

Ben Parker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:43:44 +0000

What about IPS? IRIN? PANA? This is a very incomplete review.

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Wanted: people who live on the Internet « Business Media — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:37:08 +0000

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By: Timo Luege

Timo Luege — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:25:38 +0000

Having been a full time journalist myself, I’m not a friend of paying journalists based on unique traffic to articles because imho this does not mean you create quality journalism but journalism that is as attractive to the widest possible audience. If you are paid for the traffic then e.g. writing about Sex in Asia (for the 100th time) is always better business then for example writing about people living on garbage dumps in Asia (an underreported problem).

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:01:39 +0000

All these sites are great, but for a non-US based take on world news check out http://www.demotix.com – known for its quality citizen photojournalism.

By: Journalism is an activity, not a business model. So is plumbing and doctoring. « Low Opinions

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:17:29 +0000

[...] news is that it is very expensive. And I very much doubt that new media can take up the slack, as Karthika Muthukumaraswamy argues. Yes, citizen journos beat the mainstream press with photos and descriptions of the Mumbai blasts. [...]

By: Bring on the unpaid contributors « Mediascaper

Bring on the unpaid contributors « Mediascaper — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:52:21 +0000

[...] Apropos of talking about journalists as entrepreneurs, Online Journalism Blog looks at how reporters are “filling in the newshole abandoned by the closure of international [...]