Comments on: links for 2007-11-15 http://www.wmhartnett.com/2007/11/15/links-for-2007-11-15/ Journalism, the future of news, and cat pictures. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:59:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Digidave http://www.wmhartnett.com/2007/11/15/links-for-2007-11-15/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 Digidave Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:57:34 +0000 http://www.wmhartnett.com/2007/11/15/links-for-2007-11-15/#comment-1270 "Yikes. Could the community have done St. Pete’s wetlands project by informing each other?" For one -- this might be taking the quote a bit out of context. I'm not saying journalists should abondon reporting all together. Nor do I think citizen journalists can come together to build an intricate website like this: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/webspecials06/wetlands/ But I do think that a large part of the information within that website could have been gathered by citizen journalism. Would it have been presented as beautifully. No. Without a doubt. Is there added value by having a prof. go out and do reporting - of course. But the job description is changing -- and I think part of it is playing the role of educator rather than reporter - helping citizens inform each other. “Yikes. Could the community have done St. Pete’s wetlands project by informing each other?”

For one — this might be taking the quote a bit out of context. I’m not saying journalists should abondon reporting all together.

Nor do I think citizen journalists can come together to build an intricate website like this: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/webspecials06/wetlands/

But I do think that a large part of the information within that website could have been gathered by citizen journalism. Would it have been presented as beautifully. No. Without a doubt. Is there added value by having a prof. go out and do reporting – of course. But the job description is changing — and I think part of it is playing the role of educator rather than reporter – helping citizens inform each other.

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