PressThink: A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism

When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have been given to inform each other, that’s citizen journalism. There are other definitions, but they will have to be discussed in the…

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Where Did “Citizen Journalist” Come From?

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I had a call last week from a researcher for a big-name journalist, asking a question about the expression “citizen journalist”:
I am primarily interested in finding who coined this term and when it
entered the…

Brevity is the soul of….

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In his shortest post ever — and they said it couldn’t be done — Jay Rosen defines citizen journalism:
When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform…

PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

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PressThink: What Happened to Scott McClellan in Longer Perspective: 100 Years of the White House Press

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“You got to be able to step back and look at the big picture,” said Scott McClellan on the Today show this morning, talking about his book disturbance. I did that in April 2006 when McClellan resigned as White…

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