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Toronto explosions reveal weakness in breaking news coverage
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August 11, 2008 - Posted by Regan Ray
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 Citizen journalists outperformed professional news outlets when it came to getting news out faster and offering better multimedia after a Toronto neighbourhood was rocked by explosions, according to Bill Dunphy, senior city reporter at the Hamilton Spectator.
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Virginia student press leads way
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April 23, 2007 - Posted by Patricia Elliott
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The Collegiate Times - the student newspaper at Virginina Tech - has been providing multimedia/interactive media throughout the shooting crisis, employing an online blog-style approach that contains up-to-the-minute information sharing, as well as reader videos, photos and reports. Students appear to be participating in the Collegiate's coverage rather than protesting against it, in marked contrast to the anti-media backlash aimed at other media outlets.
Students gathered at Holden Hall during the massacre.
Photo by William Chase Damiano/GNU Free Documentation License
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Election Act gates set to fall
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October 14, 2008 - Posted by Patricia Elliott
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Election Act:
329. No person shall transmit the
result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the
public in another electoral district before the close of all of the
polling stations in that other electoral district.
In an election where strategic voting sits front and
centre, it seems like the Election Act gates are about to fall with a
resounding thud across the land today. Elections Canada has already softened the blow with changes to polling times, there are still gaps in the timing of poll closures.
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YouTube and Pulitzer team up for contest
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September 26, 2008 - Posted by Regan Ray
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Citizen journalists around the world are being given the chance to strut their journalistic stuff online, with Project: Report, a journalism contest that YouTube and the Pulitzer Center have cooked up.
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The revolution will be plagiarized
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September 12, 2008 - Posted by Joe Rayment
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The citizens are failing us at NowPublic. As of 2 p.m., Sept. 11,
nearly 60 per cent of the stories in the citizen-journalism site's Canadian Election section consist of quoted material from other, largely traditional media outlets.
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Allvoices' citizen journalism incentive program
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September 3, 2008 - Posted by Heather McCall
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The allvoices Excellence in Citizen Media Incentive Program is an online initiative to reward on-the-ground news and opinion contributors from all over the world with a six-month cash incentive. Contributors who submit news and opinion between August 19, 2008 and February 19, 2009 can earn cash rewards when they reach certain "milestones" (read page views). In true 2.0 fashion, there's also a leaderboard that measures registered posters' performance.
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Citizen journalists no threat to professionals, journalism prof argues
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August 25, 2008 - Posted by Alan Bass
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In an essay published by the Knight Citizen News Network, Clyde H. Bentley of the University of Missouri's journalism school sympathetically reviews the historical rise of "citizen journalism" but concludes it should not be viewed as a threat by professional journalists. He says citizen news gatherers and commentators are to journalism what militia members are to the military - people who want to contribute to a vital societal function while leaving the core job to the pros.
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The limits of crowd power
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April 14, 2008 - Posted by Heather McCall
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Three years and 10 million dollars later, has so-called citizen journalism site NowPublic.com democratized the news gathering process? Not exactly, as Carla Wintersgill reports in this feature for RRJ.ca.
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Global Voices shines a light on small blogs
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March 10, 2008 - Posted by Heather McCall
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Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet's impact on society. The site aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online -- shining light on places and people other media often ignore. It employs an international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators to help make sense of it all, and to highlight things that bloggers are saying which mainstream media may not be reporting.
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U.S. law guide for bloggers
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February 21, 2008 - Posted by Deborah Jones
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It's American, but Canadians might be interested in the new guide for bloggers and others, developed by the Citizen Media Law Project. It bills itself as "intended for use by citizen media creators with or without formal legal training, as well as others with an interest in these issues, and focuses on the wide range of legal issues online publishers are likely to face, including risks associated with publication, such as defamation and privacy torts; intellectual property; access to government information; newsgathering; and general legal issues involved in setting up a business."
Hat tip to Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff.
BTW, is anyone else getting weary of this phrase "citizen journalists?"
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I’m a freelancer. I’m driven by hunger, boredom and ego and I’ll do anything, writes 
The CBC's 