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According to AP, Bloggers Are Journalists

09.09.2010 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

Apparently citizen journalists are now just plain old journalists–well, usually unpaid journalists. This from the Associated Press, which announced today that its staff “will recognize bloggers as valid sources of news and credit them in their articles.” They’re still one step behind the times, though, because their new stance extends only to blogs, not Facebook […]

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Are Hyper-Local Bloggers Going to be the New Mommy Bloggers?

08.10.2009 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

I came across links to two similar posts on Twitter today–both about successful newspaper replacements: websites that rely heavily on user-generated content. The first was about AnnArbor.com–Michigan’s new online daily. It replaces the Ann Arbor News. The website features a staff of 60 (down from 316 when it was a print publication), of which 35 […]

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Is Mainstream Media Capitalizing on Citizen Journalism?

02.28.2009 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

I blog about it all the time: citizen journalism is on the rise. Meanwhile, newspapers are folding at an ever-increasing rate. What’s the natural next step as these two trends become more and more prevalent? Online news outlets depending on citizen–e.g. unpaid–journalists to provide content while they continue to phase-out real–e.g. paid–journalists. Not only does […]

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Changing of the Media Guards

12.16.2008 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

A few months ago I posed the question “Will citizen journalism replace traditional journalism?“ I recently came across an article that gives a great example of why the answer is “yes.” Roland Legrand, a multimedia newsroom manager for Belgian publisher Mediafin, wrote a great piece for PBS.org’s Mediashift, detailing a newspaper’s role in bringing a […]

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