Woot! YouTube’s got a new channel for citizen journalism.
From ReadWriteWeb:
This channel will highlight the best of the citizen journalism that’s taking place on YouTube, but its ultimate goal is to become a go-to news destination on the web.
Though as Dan Gillmor points out YouTube isn’t giving much back to the community:
I hope they’re going [...]
Combine many sleepless nights, a killer open source platform, and one very ambitious young journalist, and you just might get a kick-ass news site like The Windy Citizen. Brad Flora took the leap from graduate student to publisher when he started the acclaimed Chicago news site The Methods Reporter while still in school. [...]
Also tagged Brad Flora, Gillmor, open source journalism, The Windy CitizenIf you value the free dissemination of ideas - if you believe that democracy requires a free press - if you prefer truth to truthiness - you should care about network neutrality.
First, the ever helpful sports metaphor.
You’re watching a Cubs game. It’s a nail biter - in the bottom of the ninth, your favorite [...]
At 4:36 a.m., a magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the Midwest.
At 4:53 a.m., the Methods Reporter, an independent Chicago news site, had a story up saying there was a earthquake. At that point, Chicago Public Radio was reporting that the Chicago Police Department was receiving calls, but they had little other information. Google news [...]
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