Comments on: I, Reporter: My New Citizen Journalism Project

By: jim wilde

jim wilde — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:07:34 +0000

This sounds great Amy! Let me know if you need any help on the sw side of things. I’m always up for donating time/effort for a worthy cause. The cms I use might be more appropriate for what you’re attempting since you’ll be scaling up for many different uses and users.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:15:04 +0000

I, Blogger, I, Reporter, I’m interested.

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:42:55 +0000

Thanks for your comments on OhMyNews, Mark. Yes, I’m familiar with that excellent venture — which is why I mentioned it in my article

- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS

By: Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:59:08 +0000

This sounds great, I’m looking forward to it. I posted a note about it to Localnewsapalooza, a Yahoo! Group for people running or interested in local news weblogs.

By: Mark Rose

Mark Rose — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:16:45 +0000

I am fascinated with what you are doing and will check in and hopefully participate. You aware of OhMyNews? OhmyNews is a Korean news organization that employs 50 staff reporters and editors plus 38,000 citizen reporter volunteers who submit 200 stories a day. Much of the professional staff time is spent on editing and fact checking these stories before they are posted. The citizen reporters must be verified through government registration numbers, and then sign onto a strict code of ethics including a promise not to write a story for personal financial gain and to tell the truth in each piece.

OhmyNews has embraced the philosophy that every citizen can be a reporter. Others act as sources for fellow volunteer reporters or for OhmyNews professional staffers.

See: http://english.ohmynews.com/