Theories & Links
NBC News Announces Baghdad Blog...NBC News announced Thursday that it is launching a "Blogging Baghdad" platform Dec. 5 that will expand its coverage of the situation in Iraq.
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone.... is news reporting for the new millennium - a nexus of backpack journalism, narrative story-telling techniques, and the Internet, designed to reach a global audience hungry for information.
The Net Knows More Than You: Jay Rosen's An Open Letter to the People of CBS News.....It's the anniversary of the big collapse at CBS over the National Guard Memos. "People of CBS News, you've had a year to think about it. How, if you are dedicated to truthtelling, could you have permitted the near destruction of your network's reputation for telling the truth? What explains your silence, September 9-20, 2004?"
CBS' Public Eye...A new site whose fundamental mission is to bring transparency to the editorial operations of CBS News — transparency that is unprecedented for broadcast and online journalism.
New Media New Paradigms
Models of Online Media
Mark Deuze defines four particular types of
online journalism and discusses them in terms of key
characteristics of online publishing – hypertextuality,
interactivity, multimediality – and considers the current
and potential impacts that these online journalisms can
have on the ways in which one can define journalism as
it functions in elective democracies worldwide.
The Role of Newspapers in Building Citizenship
Jan Schaffer on civic journalism: I’ve been asked to speak to you today about civic journalism and give you some ideas of how to practice it. Civic journalism has focused not only on some problems of journalism, but also possible solutions.
