Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating collaborative media as a news resource

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Participatory journalism

Participatory journalism 08/16/2004 11:52 AM

Participatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor's new book We the Media. For a great example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia's outstanding coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. It's already a serious competitor to the official site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.

I've been a fan of Wikipedia's current affairs coverage for quite a while. The site is especially useful in catching up with ongoing stories, in particular for detailed profiles of people and groups currently making the news (random example: Muqtada al-Sadr). Despite the site's open nature (or maybe because of it), they generally do an excellent job of keeping to a ne utral point of view.

Citizen journalism is unlikely to ever replace traditional journalism completely, but it can certainly enhance it. Then again, with OhMyNews now one of the most influential media outlets in Korea (see this interview for details) this is one trend that's not going to go away.

Participatory, Partisan Journalism

Participatory, Partisan Journalism 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
BloggerStorm is one of the more interesting developments in participatory journalism in a long time. It's an aggregation of weblogs covering the Iowa presidential caucuses, kind of a human-operated equivalent of Google News capturing a narrow topic.

Participatory Journalism and Education

Participatory Journalism and Education 08/03/2004 09:13 AM
I'm in Toronto for today's Exploring Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference, speaking about the tools of tomorrow's grassroots journalism and how folks in the business can get started. I'm glad to see that quite a few educators are part of this gathering. Their presence makes sense, given that tomorrow is the start of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. My guess is that the students are, in many cases, way ahead of the teachers when it comes to understanding the tools and how to use them. (Cross-posted to We the Media.)

Participatory journalism has long roots

Participatory journalism has long roots 06/03/2004 06:35 PM
Newspapers and Technology,CO-1 hour ago ... On the Web, you can get your local news in numerous ways: MyYahoo, Google, or if you are in South Korea, OhmyNews.com, which, according to We Media, attracts 2 ...

Participatory Journalism and Janet
Jackson

Participatory Journalism and Janet
Jackson 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Adrian Holovaty, lead developer for the excellent community news site in Lawrence Kansas, reflects on his blog about how he got real information about the Janet Jackson fiasco not from the networks but from the Web.

"Yes, probably not a single one of the Fark contributors was actually at the Super Bowl, and all of their facts were collected from "mainstream" sources such as the CBS television broadcast. So what? Even two days later, this is STILL coverage you can't find at any big-media site. And who's to say a photo-phone-toting Super Bowl attendee couldn't have contributed?"

Fascinating story.

AOL's Worthy Struggles with
Participatory Journalism

AOL's Worthy Struggles with
Participatory Journalism 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
Interesting take by Mark Glaser on AOL's ongoing experiments with blogging, citizen journalism and the like. I hope they keep working on it and succeed.

Evaluating New Revenue Sources
(09-Feb-2004; 9.8K)

Evaluating New Revenue Sources
(09-Feb-2004; 9.8K) 02/10/2004 02:43 AM

Journalism.org- The State of the News
Media 2005

Journalism.org- The State of the News
Media 2005 03/17/2005 02:48 AM
The State of the [U.S.] News Media 2005 .. new study .. chewing

stateofthemedia.org/2005/index.asp
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Wikipedia, a reliable source?

Wikipedia, a reliable source? 06/01/2004 05:29 PM
Wik ipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? (pdf file) From the 5^th international Symposium on Online Journalism comes this rather interesting analysis of the Wikipedia both as a news source and as a living draft of history. A surprisingly readable article.

Rumor sites see drop in reliable sources

Rumor sites see drop in reliable sources 03/22/2005 03:31 PM
Earlier this month, a California judge ruled that Apple has the right to subpoena the records of the three Macintosh sites that recently published details on an unreleased Apple product. Apple filed a lawsuit against anonymous individuals who leaked details about new products by posting information on the Internet in December. In the company's seven-page civil complaint, Apple said that it did not know the "true names or capacities, whether individual, associate, corporate or otherwise," of the defendants. The Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge ruled that Apple's interests in protecting trade secrets outweighed any interest the public may have in the information. "The public has had, and continues to have, a profound interest in gossip about Apple," Judge James P. Kleinberg said. "Therefore, it is not surprising that hundreds of thousands of 'hits' on a Web site about Apple have and will happen. But an interested public is not the same as the public interest." Though only three rumor sites are involved in the litigation, other rumor sites have recently seen the number of reliable anonymous sources drop. "We noticed that some of our annonymous sources, which were informing us with reliable information on Mac OS X development, stopped sending us information," Alexandros Roussos of MacosXrumors told Spymac. With increased interest and demand for Apple rumors, many of these sites are receiving a surge of information from more sources. This increase of information increases the amount of unreliable information the sites receive, so sites have to be more careful about what they publish. "The site has been very successful since the beginning but really saw its traffic exploding during 2004, when we started daily news and rumours reporting," Roussos said. "Along with the success, more and more sources appeared but there were a lot more fake rumors too. We do our best to verify the information we receive by discussing it with some regular sources or by comparing with other reports and other factual information found on documentation or corporate sites." MacosXrumors has improved its source reliability since its early days but, according to Roussos, there is still more work to do. "Sometimes we are frustrated when we have taken too much time to verify our rumors and we see the story breaking elsewhere though. Now it's really an investigation job. It's easier to do for us than it used to be when the site was launched, as we have more sources and experience, but it takes much more time than it did." Stay tuned next week to find out more about how operations on other rumour sites are being influenced by recent litigations against Apple rumor sites.

The State of the News Media 2004: An
Annual Report on American Journalism

The State of the News Media 2004: An
Annual Report on American Journalism 05/22/2004 06:50 AM
The State of the News Media 2004: An Annual Report on American Journalism
http://www.stateofthenewsme dia.org/

This report profiles major journalism sectors such as newspapers, local television, radio, and ethnic media, and aggregates data regarding many of the pressing issues facing the news media. Covers issues such as station ownership, shrinking audiences,
journalistic standards, and the impact of new media technologies. Searchable. From the Project for Excellence in Journalism, "an institute affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism." [Copyright 2004 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, LII.]

Google/Amazon-like resource hub for pro
media produces upgrades news, tips,
stability and speed.

Google/Amazon-like resource hub for pro
media produces upgrades news, tips,
stability and speed. 01/04/2005 05:46 PM
Intelligent Assistance has released the 4.1 update to it's free centralized resource hub specifically that offers google/amazon-like convenience for Apple's professional audio and video users. This...

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Participatory Media Paper

Participatory Media Paper 04/27/2004 10:26 AM
Steve Rubel finds a whitepaper by IBM called Media and Entertainment 2010 (PDF). He rightly points out that the declining costs of production for user generated content and its effects is already happening with weblogs. The paper defines a business...

Journalism and revealing sources

Journalism and revealing sources 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
There's been a lot of hoohah around the blogosphere recently about the whole Apple suing "weblogs" deal, and I wanted to get my point of view out in the open, given that I've been found occasionally practicing journalism without a...

Roles of Traditional Publications and
New Media in Innovation Journalism

Roles of Traditional Publications and
New Media in Innovation Journalism 04/05/2005 04:44 PM
Andreas Cervenka, AffŠrsvŠrlden, was working at Sweden's largest daily during the boom and saw a demand for tomorrow's news today, so he started his own new media venture. One thing they started with was the attention of other journalists,...

Findory: Collaborative news aggregator

Findory: Collaborative news aggregator 01/19/2004 11:47 AM
Greg Linden stumbled across "The Daily Me? No, the Daily Us," an old Wired piece of mine that pointed to a disadvantage of personalized news sites: they don't build communities the way paper newspapers do. (Look, it was an interesting idea in 1995.) Here's an excerpt, chosen because of its quaint reference to that other Iraqi war: The fact that the document I'm looking at is the same for all who receive it has other important effects. It establishes a baseline of expectations about what we, as a community, are all supposed to know. If, at the height of the...

Editorial News Linking To Other News
Sources

Editorial News Linking To Other News
Sources 09/17/2004 02:31 PM
Just as some newspapers seem to be taking a head in the sand approach to online news, others are really starting to think about how the news works online. E-Media Tidbits reports that a German newspaper is planning to add a variety of automated, but human reviewed, links to other news sources that could add more information to the articles they publish. They compare this to the way Google News works, but with the addition of the human analysis. While they claim this is "the first" site to do this, that's clearly not true. Obviously, there are plenty of blogs that compile a bunch of links to news coverage on certain stories, but on the professional side, CNET's News.com has been experimenting with this exact feature with their Extra product. Either way, it's about time that news organizations realize that they're not the only ones on a story, and that everyone knows that. Linking to others (whether or not they're considered "competitors") only gives the readers more reason to come back to the original site to get the full story.

Glowan Consulting Announces “The
Collaborative Advantage” - Innovative
approach to building collaborative
relationships compliments L3 Leadership
Learning Program

Glowan Consulting Announces “The
Collaborative Advantage” - Innovative
approach to building collaborative
relationships compliments L3 Leadership
Learning Program 04/18/2005 03:54 AM
The Glowan Consulting Group has introduced another innovative concept in Leadership Development called “The Collaborative Advantage”. Pairs of individuals attend and work with each other and members of the group to develop skills, behaviors and action plans for improving collaboration. Offering real time relationship building processes combined with an in-depth “Collaborative Assessment”, participants experience the advantages of working together collaboratively to accomplish extraordinary things. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

Expert sources and information on
hazardous drug handling are now
available for media access at
Expert411.com

Expert sources and information on
hazardous drug handling are now
available for media access at
Expert411.com 07/29/2004 03:06 AM
A recent alert (updated June 7, 2004, in its prepublication form) from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) sheds light on a new concern in the healthcare industry: the health risks posed to those working with hazardous drugs. The alert examines the issue in its entirety and provides measures for protecting healthcare workers, including use of a closed-system device for safe handling of antineoplastic and other hazardous drugs. Sources and resources, including experts on the subject and links to the Alert and relevant articles are now available at Expert411.com (click the hazardous drugs tab). [PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
O PIOR do jornalismo americano em 2004

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Kramer: Google News Not Journalism

Kramer: Google News Not Journalism 05/12/2004 04:08 PM

From Cyberjournalist. net: Larry Kramer, head of CBS Marketwatch, says Google News -- however valuable in its own way -- should not be confused with journalism. I agree. Aggregation by robots of other people's work is not journalism.

Sources of under-reported breaking news

Sources of under-reported breaking news 03/13/2003 03:27 PM
UPI Hears , Overseas Security Council News , News Insider seem to do a good job providing tasty bits of breaking news absent from mainstream media. Where else do you feed the appetite for under-reported, breaking news scoops these days?

Other News: Apple Revenue Sources

Other News: Apple Revenue Sources 07/09/2004 10:12 AM
Computers are playing a diminishing role in Apple's revenue picture, as Apple's market share continues to fall and other products and services rise to fill the gap.

Other News: "Wrong on Blog Sources"

Other News: "Wrong on Blog Sources" 04/15/2005 12:52 PM
"Moreover, the ability to protect sources is vital to First Amendment freedoms that allow this country's press to inform the public without government, or business, interference or control."

News: Yahoo to support Wikipedia

News: Yahoo to support Wikipedia 04/07/2005 05:38 PM
Yahoo Inc.'s search engine division will supply hardware and other resources to the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to support that nonprofit organization's free Wikipedia online encyclopedia.

Should Google News be eligible for
journalism awards?

Should Google News be eligible for
journalism awards? 05/23/2004 10:29 PM
CyberJournalist.net May 24 2004 2:04AM GMT

Resource Data Products becomes a
Certified Manufacturer and Distributor
of HexaLock CD-RX Media and Copy
Protection Technology

Resource Data Products becomes a
Certified Manufacturer and Distributor
of HexaLock CD-RX Media and Copy
Protection Technology 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Now, through HexaLock's new Manufacturing Program, copy protectable CD-R media is readily available, worldwide. [PRWEB Dec 13, 2004]

Wikipedia launches experimental news
service

Wikipedia launches experimental news
service 12/17/2004 06:30 PM

The increasingly-noted Wikipedia launched WikiNews this week. WikiNews uses the open-editing structure to garner and refine news stories.

The result is a multi-feed object, somewhat like Google News . WikiNews is not without precedent, as the Korean OhMyNews service has been in operation for more than a year. Dan Gillmor argues that this may be the leading edge of popular or citizens' journalism.

Rocket RSS reader offers news from
10,000+ sources

Rocket RSS reader offers news from
10,000+ sources 04/29/2004 05:50 PM
Developer Rocketinfo now offers a free Web-based Rocket RSS Reader, the company has announced. Rocketinfo sells enterprise-level solutions that combine news feeds with research, analysis and delivery software, but you can tap into their RocketNews search engine and pull current headlines from over 10,000 sources with the reader. It comes loaded with hundreds of RSS feeds, including many Mac-specific ones, and you can add your own. All you need to do is create a free personal account on the Rocketinfo Web site.

Design Sources, Newbie Tricks, and Site
News

Design Sources, Newbie Tricks, and Site
News 07/01/2002 08:29 AM

News-Leader.com | True Ozarks | Guards
left Berger alone, sources say

News-Leader.com | True Ozarks | Guards
left Berger alone, sources say 07/22/2004 02:49 PM
'He was supposed to be monitored at all times but kept asking the monitor to leave so he could make private calls'; Took 'lots of bathroom breaks' .. There are so many questions .. has disgraced himself .. this report is true

news-leader.com/today/0722-Guardsleft-138802.html
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"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently"

"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently" 04/09/2005 03:59 AM

New York Times Announces Election News
Resource

New York Times Announces Election News
Resource 02/10/2004 03:23 AM
The New York Times has announced a resource for 2004 presidential campaign news. "Times On the Trail" is available at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/trail/index.html . There's a gratifyin' amount of local news here....

News: Media 100 to offer software-only
Media 100 HD

News: Media 100 to offer software-only
Media 100 HD 04/04/2005 03:18 PM
Optibase Ltd. subsidiary Media 100 has announced Media 100 sw, a software-only version of its Media 100 HD editing system. The software will be distributed as a CD-ROM-based installation, available as a public beta. It'll be distributed exclusively on CD-ROMs available at Optibase's booth at the NAB 2005 trade show later this month.

I Want Media - Media News & Resources

I Want Media - Media News & Resources 04/18/2005 12:42 AM
IWantMedia.com (an excellent source of media information, as if people didn't know) .. Iwantmedia.com, Patrick Phillips' one stop shop for stories about the media .. i want media .. iwm

IWantMedia.com
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Denver Public Relations Resource,
Absolutely PR, Recaps 2004's Key
National and Local Placements, Plus
Results of Trade and Denver Localization
Media Awareness Campaigns

Denver Public Relations Resource,
Absolutely PR, Recaps 2004's Key
National and Local Placements, Plus
Results of Trade and Denver Localization
Media Awareness Campaigns 12/31/2004 04:55 AM
2004 marked Absolutely Public Relations' fifth year in business in the Denver area. This news release is a yearend review of placement accomplishments for the Colorado-based media relations consultancy. Links to related pdf supportive documents are found at the right for those readers desiring additional information. [PRWEB Dec 31, 2004]

The New York Times > Washington
> Campaign 2004 > The News
Media: CBS News Concludes It Was Misled
on National Guard Memos, Network
Officials Say

The New York Times > Washington
> Campaign 2004 > The News
Media: CBS News Concludes It Was Misled
on National Guard Memos, Network
Officials Say 09/20/2004 03:16 AM
admit they were duped .. The New York Times .. WE WERE DECEIVED

nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20guard.html?ei=50 06&en=42f1be2f0a0efa9d&ex=1096344000&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=pri nt&position=
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EIN News - World News Media Monitoring

EIN News - World News Media Monitoring 12/24/2004 12:28 PM

EIN News

EIN News - World News Media Monitoring
http://www.einnews.com/

EINnews provides you access to breaking news that is organized within 260+ country, regional, U.S. States and specialized topic sections. EINnews content is derived from monitoring over 4,000 different online sources and is designed to save you money by reducing time needed for your online research. More than one million people turn to EINnews for breaking news each year. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005.

Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia

Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
l'encyclopédie libre vient d'être achetée par l'encyclopédie Britannica .. Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .. Wikipedia sells out to Britannica .. wikpedia

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Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating collaborative media as a news resource

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