For years, Americans have been accustomed to getting their news from professional journalists on network and local television, on radio and in newspapers. But these days, more and more Americans are ...

The use of ICT by “citizen journalists” has forced traditional media to engage the public proactively, according to Fackson Banda, a communications professor and speaker at this week’s 2008 Highway ...

Today is World Mental Health Day, an opportune moment to reflect upon the challenges faced by people with mental illness. Stigma remains a key challenge, and considerable research indicates that the ...

Ever since we ran across this interview with craigslist founder Craig Newmark, we’ve been bugging him for more information about his interest in “citizen journalism.” A cup of coffee and a couple of ...

Google has a firm grip on the news industry. With Google News, its monstrous news aggregator, and examples such as the recent explosion of citizen journalism covering the conflict in Iran, Google is ...

A news site that has allowed its users to write and submit their own articles is shutting down, citing unspecified "business issues." Backfence Inc. had "hyperlocal" sites serving 13 communities in ...

Topix, a news aggregation service that's been around for several years, launched a new site today, at Topix.com (previously the site was Topix.net). The service continues to pull local news from a ...

Richardson started her career working for Jet and Ebony magazines. She loved going through the archives of the magazines and learning about the roles they played in documenting history. At the same ...

There's long been an understandable tension in the media world around the term "citizen journalism." As legacy news organizations unleashed new media vehicles, as we've worked hard to sort out our ...

You've no doubt heard of a citizen journalism, the concept that everyday folks with blogging tools can track and report the news faster and, in some cases, better than mainstream journalists. Now, we ...