The Brooklyn Movement Center, an NY based community organizing group, has started the photo-a-day project with a goal to capture small, daily changes throughout the city and start conversations about city life. The organization opened in March and asks users to submit photographs that tell a story [Full Story…]
Associated Content Benefitting from Citizen Journalism
March 18, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Citizen journalism site Associated Content is growing and continually profiting. In a recent interview with eConsultancy, CEO Patrick Keane explained that for the past 5 years, revenues have grown 100% year over year and that in the past year, the site has had over 300,000 registered [Full Story…]
AP Promotes McCullough to Head Social Network Center
January 14, 2010 at 3:33 pm
The Associated Press (AP) has promoted Lauren McCullough to manager of Social Networks and News Engagement. In this new role, McCullough will head the Social Network Center, which is one of the 4 components at the new AP headquarters in New York. In an interview with Poynter, reporter Steve [Full Story…]
Citizens Report for New Local NYTimes Coverage
March 2, 2009 at 10:00 am
Adding to our post last week on The New York Times planning local online coverage in New Jersey and Brooklyn, Editor & Publisher reports that the new sections, which are being called "The Local," will be written by local residents, who will be taught about about reporting and the use [Full Story…]
Local Reporting Goes Online in Parts of NJ
February 23, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Several New Jersey towns are among the first to be covered by Patch, an online local news provider that mixes professional original reporting with user-generated event listings, classifieds, etc. Patch is funded by Polar Capital Group, a private investment company owned by New York-based Tim [Full Story…]
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