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SME-TV: Indiconews Adds Depth To Citizen Journalism

June 2, 2009 · Comments

Jason Falls

Jason Falls

On my recent journey to London, England, I had a moment to meet and chat with Lizzie Hodgson, the founder and CEO of Indiconews, a citizen journalism site that is beginning to take hold and grow in the United Kingdom. Indiconews differs a bit from many of the other civic journalist sites in some unique ways, including the fact Hodgson is building a database of interview opportunities for her site users, connecting the dots between citizen journalists and politicians, newsmakers and the like.

We sat down for an episode of SME-TV on the morning of my arrival in England.

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Putting Social Media In The Newsroom

September 21, 2008

The early feedback from my Blog World Expo panel, “Putting Social Media In The Newsroom: How Social Media Can Help Traditional Media Maintain Relevance,” is very positive. Of course, few people will tell you it stunk to your face, so we’ll see. The slide show:
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AllVoices.com Offers Community Of Citizen Journalists

September 21, 2008

I was able to catch up with Kathy Jacobs of AllVoices.com at Blog World Expo Saturday. She is the community guru for the site, which is a news content effort totally driven by user submitted news — a citizen journalism lab of sorts. Kathy and I both learned of the bombing in Islamabad from a [...]

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The Media And Social Media: I Am Modern Magazine

September 3, 2008

This week’s entry in our Media and Social Media series brings us to what we believe to be the only traditional media property totally driven by social media. And it’s not that this particular magazine made a transition to that status. I Am Modern Magazine for Moms was started with that model in mind: to [...]

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The Media & Social Media: Follow Up With Cincinnati Enquirer

August 22, 2008

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On Monday, I gave a sneak preview of my upcoming panel presentation at Blog World & New Media Expo to about 60 folks in attendance at Social Media Club Louisville. Part of the reason was to share some case studies and examples of how some traditional media members are using social media [...]

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Sorry Journalists, We Don’t Need You Anymore

December 19, 2007

The facts are these:

Paid newspaper subscriptions have been steadily declining by a 2-3 percent rate every six months since 2005 (Editor & Publisher)
Several major daily newspapers including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald and Dallas Morning News have experienced steeper declines in subscriptions in 2007. (Editor & Publisher)
Viewership for evening news has decreased one million viewers [...]

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How Web 2.0 Will Change The Law

December 13, 2007

Doug Haslem’s guest article on Media Bullseye, “Social Media and the Changing Nature of Conferences,” is an interesting look into the issue of exclusivity of content in the age of Web 2.0. He offers scenarios and questions concerning our right as citizen journalists, niche network feeders and influencers to report events, meetings, announcements and conferences [...]

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