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Embracing Your Learning Curve with Citizen Journalism

(Cross-posted from I, Reporter)

One thing that often holds people back from doing citizen journalism is that they don’t feel like they know enough about an issue or event to cover it well.

I’ll let you in on a secret of journalism: You don’t have to be an expert to be a good reporter. In fact, it helps to embrace your learning curve and just be willing to start reporting from wherever you happen to be along that curve.

Here’s how I did that this week.

…Read the full story at I, Reporter…

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4 Comments so far (Add 1 more)

  1. It appears that Typepad has fixed itself, and my I, Reporter article is back up. whew!

    - Amy Gahran
    Editor, Contentious

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    1. Amy Gahran on December 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am

  2. Every time, when i meet the words “I, reporter”, i involuntaryly remember “I, robot” movie =). Offtopic, but true! :)

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    2. Susan on December 17th, 2005 at 6:00 am

  3. It appears that Typepad (the service which hosts I, Reporter) is having some issues at the moment. The link I posted is correct, but the article is not on the site. I just tried to log in to typepad and it’s down for maintenance. Hopefully this is a temporary problem. If Typepad ate my article, I’ll be quite annoyed. I’ve had enough server woes this week already.

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    3. Amy Gahran on December 16th, 2005 at 10:57 am

  4. Amy, the link to I,Reporter seems to be broken.

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    4. Georgia on December 16th, 2005 at 10:34 am

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