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Online Journalism Review - http://www.ojr.org/
Covers issues about online news worldwide. Resource for news industry leaders, publishers, editors, bloggers, educators and anyone watching trends in news-gathering. |
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Wikinews: Original reporting - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting
Offers guidelines for reporters. Covers sourcing, disclosure of potential conflicts, and preparing for interviews. |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers - http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
Nonprofit group working to protect digital rights. Offers information about legal issues related to intellectual property (copyrights), privacy, access to public records, defamation (libel), election and labor law, and obscenity issues. |
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J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism - http://www.j-lab.org/
Active organization promoting the development, study and training of participatory journalists. |
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The Pew Center For Civic Journalism - http://www.pewcenter.org/
An incubator to help stimulate citizen involvement in community issues. Guidelines for funding, lists projects, research, plus entry details for the Batten Award for Civic Journalism. |
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SourceWatch - http://www.sourcewatch.org/
Collaborative directory of people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. Catalogs PR firms, activist groups and government agencies, along with the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. |
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Center for Citizen Media - http://www.citmedia.org/
Founded by Dan Gillmor, the nonprofit center aims at helping to enable grassroots media at every level. Lists current projects. |
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BBC Training & Development: Good Shooting Guide - http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?tID=5914&cat=3
The BBC shares its training materials through this online course detailing the basic principles on shooting news video. |
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NewAssignment.net - http://newassignment.net/
Edited by David Cohn, this an experiment in open-source reporting tracks developments in interactive journalism. |
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The Largemouth Citizen Journalism Manual - http://www.mcgillreport.org/largemouth.htm
Documents five steps to becoming a citizen journalist. Compiled by a group of professional journalists who volunteer time to teach anyone the skills to produce accurate, compelling news reports. |
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Our Media: Personal Media Learning Center - http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center
Provides "how-to" guides for videoblogs, podcasts, and filing multi-media news stories. Also offers a repository of audio, video and photo content, and an open media directory. |
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http://www.scoopt.com/ - http://www.scoopt.com/
Media agency helping citizen journalists sell newsworthy photographs and videos to the press. Tips, pick of the day, FAQs, and weblog. |
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Flickr: Photojournalism 2.0 - http://www.flickr.com/groups/photojournalism/
Group sharing and discussing citizen and collaborative photojournalism assignments. |
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I, Reporter - http://www.ireporter.org/
Weblog devoted to citizen journalism, run by freelance writer/editors Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn. Offers tips and examples. |
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Watchdogging 101: A How-To Guide for Citizen Oversight - http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/watchdogging101
Tools and questions supporting citizen journalism. Enables citizens to learn more about what the U.S. Congress and their elected representatives do. |