Author: ISOJ

Day 2 Notes

The symposium’s second day included a fantastic back-to-back firestorm of participatory and non-profit journalism panels, as well as two more great research panels, and ended things with a bang. In the vein of yesterday’s notes, here are my observations from the event’s second and final day.—— Anybody hungover? Surprisingly enough, most attendees were on time for …  Read More

The Knight News Challenge

Thanks again to Alfred Hermida for a great blog post about Seth Lewis’ presentation about the Knight News Challenge. View it here.    Read More

Participatory Journalism: How the old passive audience of mass media is becoming the new active communities of online media

Dan Gillmor turned the audience at ISOJ on to what has be one of the greatest Twitter accounts in existence, @TheMime.- Wikipedia is the best place to start. It’s the worst place to stop. Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, American University – There are new players in the news ecosystem: fact entrepreneurs, creative technologists, citizen media makers, …  Read More