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Here’s a link to a darn nice slide show about citizen journalism posted by Jubanashwa Mishra from Mumbai area in India! Well worth your time to page through and learn! Here’s the link: http://www.slideshare.net/jubanashwa/citizen-journalism-12783440   Honoring citizen journalists is also something worthy to be promoted. Here’s a link to a video where Elizabeth Christopherson presents the award for Citizen Journalism to Tracy Jordan of Perth Amboy at the Celebration of Leadership on April 30, 2012. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoeLr08vuXw Share and Enjoy: ... (more)

A Call for Code of Ethics for Citizen Journalists

 On World Press Freedom Day 3 May 2012, the president of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), Dr. Dennis Smith and General Secretary Dr. Rev Karin Achtelstetter invited members and partners to work towards an international code of ethics for citizen journalism. http://waccglobal.org/component/content/article/3057:wacc-calls-for-code-of-ethics-for-citizen-journalism.html They wrote in an open letter to members and partners, “We urge media practitioners – professional and citizen journalists –collectively to find common ground in efforts to agree on professional ... (more)

Roger Ailes tells journalism students I think you ought to change your major

By Julie Moos, April 13, 2012 The Fox News Chairman and CEO spoke to about 350 people, including young journalists Thursday as part of a special lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He started by telling them to change majors, which Melody Butts reports, “elicited at least a few eye rolls.” Here’s what else he said: “If you’re going into journalism if you care, then you’re going into the wrong profession … I usually ask (journalists) if they want to change the world in the way it wants to be changed.” “Democracy depends on freedom of the press. Bu... (more)

Warren Buffett Invests in Newspapers

Besides mowing lawns and shoveling snow, my very first job as a lad was an Omaha World-Herald newspaper route. I delivered the paper every day to about 40 customers in the south end of Council Bluffs, Iowa. That’s why the headline that Warren Buffett has purchased the OWH attracted my attention. The price, reportedly, is $150 million plus the assumption of $50 million of debt. Two-hundred-million bucks for a business that Buffett once told his shareholders has a “potential for unending losses.” The biggest problems newspapers face are 24-hour cable news outlets and Internet news ... (more)

Citizen Journalist Ups and Downs, Kudos and Critiques

Every movement in history experiences challenges that cause it to morph from the purpose and design of its founders, usually in an effort to stay alive. The incredible world-wide movement of citizen journalism is no different. In chapter one of our* book titled “Handbook for Citizen Journalists,” I point out that the movement is happening with no organized structure, no inspirational luminary, no headquarters, no power center, little or no funding, usually no government help and often government interference, no mass marketing strategy, no fixed standards, and most significant, wi... (more)