This weeks podcast & text outline is a how-to about audio Citizen Journalism. It is the first in a series of what I call Citizen Journalism Tech Kits. The future how-tos will included more advanced methods. My dream is to edit these how-tos, with your help, train people in person, and share info about public resources to make your own media.
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Archive for January, 2005
Citizen Journalism Tech Kit 001
Monday, January 10th, 2005Citizen Journalism: Discover, Report, Share
Friday, January 7th, 2005Discover, Report, Share Ver. 1
1) Discover somthing to tell others
2) Report your thoughts. Illustrate them by:
a. Writing a story about it
b. Recording audio about it
c. Shoot video about it
d. Use any combination of a, b, and c.
3) Share what you’ve made
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FOUND: Adam Curry’s Podcasting Gear Photo
Friday, January 7th, 2005Here is a rare photo of the audio gear Adam Curry “The Prince of Pod” uses to make a podcast. 
In the spirit of education I’ve added some notes to let you know what all the stuff is.
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Taking Tsunami Coverage into Their Own Hands
Friday, January 7th, 2005Dan Gilmor points us to a good article called Taking Tsunami Coverage into Their Own Hands. It’s about Citizen Journalism after the tsunami disaster. It’s written by Steve Outing, senior editor at the Poynter Institute, over at poynter.org
The Moment Has Come for Media Reform
Thursday, January 6th, 2005Robert W. McChesney has written a great article called “The Moment Has Come for Media Reform” at commondreams.org. He is the founder and president of the non-profit orginizaiton Free Press. I’m going to have to read his book “The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century”.
News-Record.com as public square: A Plan
Wednesday, January 5th, 2005Lex Alexander of the Greensboro, NC newspaper, News & Record, has posted a document to his blog, the Lex files, of suggestions on how they can make “our flagship Web site more of an online town square or public square.” Thanks to Ed Cone and Jay Rosen for pointing me to this and discussing it.
Is Googlezon the future?
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005In the future Citizen Journalism could bring about many outcomes. Especially if big internet corporations of the future harness our collective power. Could this future corporation be named Googlezon? Watch this flash movie called EPIC to see how some folks envision a dystopian future. Here is a text transcript of the flash movie called “Summary Of The World: Googlezon And The Newsmasters EPIC”.
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Community Reporters as ‘infomediaries’ in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005The Open Knowledge Network is helping people create digital content to share with their communities. Here is an example.
On Objectivity by Howard Zinn
Monday, January 3rd, 2005“From the start of my teaching and writing, I had no illusions about “objectivity,” if that meant avoiding a point of view. I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or any one telling a story) was forced to choose, from an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.”
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3URLs 01/02/05
Sunday, January 2nd, 2005The first podcast from AudioActivism in 2005! Thanks go out to the FIRST audio commenter and I discuss some URLs of blogers, journalists, and photographers.
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