Lara Logan Makes The Case for Citizen Journalists
Ed Murrow does the cheesecake shot in Korea… Over the last 3 days Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s. That means that, in effect, there are now 1.7 million more video camera/edit software/upload units in the world than there...
Read moreThe Case Against “Professional” Journalists
Amateurs! Let me be very clear from the start: I am a product of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University where we were taught to be professional journalists. Big mistake. Not the school – the entire concept....
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Sir Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton was a cousin of Charles Darwin. Born in 1822, he was an early proponent of eugenics. Well, we all make mistakes. But he was also a scientist who first applied mathematics to social...
Read moreNow We Are All Citizen Journalists
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVeN13wGFc[/youtube] One way of looking at it…. After Ft. Hood, Paul Carr has written a rather interesting piece for Tech Crunch noting that ‘Citizen Journalists can’t handle the truth’. For all the sound and fury, citizen journalism once again...
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