A citizen journalist from Moldova
I gave a workshop on videocasting and podcasting yesterday to a dozen students from Asia, Africa and Europe in a citizen journalism program taught by Dan Gillmor at the University of California, Berkeley.
During a break, one of them, Tatiana Tibuleac from Moldova — it's between Romania and Ukraine, if you're wondering — was kind enough to answer a few questions about the program and about citizen journalism in Moldova. The video was shot with my Nokia N95 cell phone.
Watch video in MPEG-4 (22MB, need QuickTime 7 for PC or Mac) | Ourmedia page
Flash video on Internet Archive
August 3, 2007 at 04:05 PM in Citizen media | Permalink | Comments (0)
NewsTrust: Readers as editors
The 13-minute interview (which will take a little while to load) was part of the Principles of Citizen Journalism project, and I haven't had time to post it here until now. I also hung around Miami a bit with Fabrice and had a grand time.
Interviewer: JD Lasica
Length: 13:37
Also see: Fairness in journalism video
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May 9, 2007 at 01:43 PM in Citizen media, Interviews | Permalink | Comments (0)
Debra Galant on Baristanet.com
A little while back I interviewed Debbie Galant, editor and co-founder of the North Jersey publication Baristanet.com, one of the most successful of the 800-plus citizen media sites in the nation. They're pulling in close to six figures a year, and Debbie tells how they've achieved that level of success while adhering to principles of journalism in this 28-minute video interview.
The video is part of the Center for Citizen Media's Principles of Citizen Journalism project. It's one of the most thorough citizen media interviews I've seen anywhere.
Quote: "We own up to making a mistake, and that's part of the process of being edited by your readers."
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• Flash (with deep tags at MotionBox that let you skip through parts of the interview)
Length: 28:48
Related: The Independence in Journalism video that Laura Lo Forti and I worked on for the Center for Citizen Media.
April 6, 2007 at 09:04 PM in Citizen journalism, Citizen media, Interviews | Permalink | Comments (2)
Newspaper meltdown in Santa Barbara
At the Newspaper 2.0 workshop at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, I conducted a 3 1/2-minute video interview with Craig Smith, an attorney whose blog became popular after the billionaire publisher of the city's daily newspaper, the News Press, began firing everyone on its staff.
I shot both of these with my Nokia N93 camera phone. Damn impressive quality. (Ourmedia page | watch MPEG-4 video)
February 12, 2007 at 12:47 AM in Citizen media, Interviews | Permalink | Comments (0)
Storytelling in the We Media era
I'm guest-blogging over at the Media Center's We Imagine blog on morph. I began with this short video to illustrate a transition happening in our culture today. This outing to Capitola, Calif., was more about the form than the content. I did it to demonstrate how easy it is today to make our voices heard the globe over, whether in a video, podcast or text essay.
It's getting simple enough for mainstream society to take part now. What started as a trickle of video bloggers and podcasters when I wrote "Darknet" two years ago has turned into a torrent of thousands of amateur works being created each day, with young people in particular latching onto visual storytelling (a better term than digital storytelling, no?).
We're trying to find our rhythm, pace and voices. It'll be fascinating to see how well we succeed in the years ahead.
In the We Imagine blog, not everyone agrees that blogging or videoblogging adds anything of substance to the conversation.
July 5, 2006 at 01:56 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Amanda Congdon on 'Rocketboom'
Amanda Congdon is the host of the 3-minute daily Internet TV show Rocketboom, one of the breakout successes of the very young IPTV industry. (They've already turned down a buyout offer from a major media conglomerate you've heard of.)
I invited Amanda to take part in a panel on grassroots media at the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center on Nov. 15, 2005. Afterward, she spoke about the success of "Rocketboom" and what it takes to build up an audience.
December 31, 2005 at 11:46 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Daniel Meadows on digital storytelling
Daniel Meadows of the BBC's Capture Wales project discusses his personal journey from journalism ("doing media to others") to storytelling ("enabling people to tell their own stories").
December 31, 2005 at 01:06 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Dave Toole on personal media
Dave Toole, CEO of Outhink discusses the personal media revolution and his company's free, secure collaborative application called SpinXpress.
December 31, 2005 at 12:07 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Cybil Weigel on grassroots filmmaking
Cybil Weigel talks about her work directing music videos, grassroots filmmaking, and her Embeddedin.la project.
December 31, 2005 at 11:25 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Arieanna Foley on privacy in the digital age
Arieanna Foley of Blogaholics Consulting discusses some of the ethical and privacy issues raised at the BlogHer session on citizen journalism.
December 30, 2005 at 02:51 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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