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• YouTube launches citizen news channel

  YouTube has just launched a citizen news channel, pointing out efforts like The UpTake. And they've hired a news manager, Olivia Ma, who can be reached at citizennews@youtube.com. Congrats, YouTube! Thanks to David Cohn for the pointer. Read More... Posted May 20 2008, 06:09 PM by Social Media Filed under: Video, Citizen media, citizen journalism, youtube, citizen news

• BlogHer interviews Barack Obama

  E-Media Tidbits: The women-bloggers group BlogHer has scored a coup with an interview of Barack Obama. Co-founder Lisa Stone has the details here, and here's the video on YouTube. Another small coup for grassroots media. I'll be attending BlogHer... Posted May 19 2008, 10:42 PM by Social Media Filed under: Politics, obama, barack obama, Citizen media, blogher

• The UpTake's pitch for citizen journalists

  The UpTake, an emerging citizen-fueled news gathering organization, is focused on providing alternative coverage of the 2008 political campaign. The UpTake provided live and recorded coverage of Iowa and New Hampshire using Internet video. Now they're... Posted Jan 22 2008, 10:59 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• Citizens' media in the non-Western world

  From David Sasaki at the IdeaLab blog: An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media. Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first... Posted Jan 21 2008, 12:29 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• When you post media online, does it still belong to you?

  I'm quoted in this piece in the Baltimore Sun about Fox Sports plucking a photo of a dog in a Christmas suit off the Web and posing it next to Bill O'Reilly. Titled "Is everything on the Internet up for grabs?" the article begins: If... Posted Jan 07 2008, 01:55 AM by Social Media Filed under: Video, Citizen media, Digital rights & copyright, fair use, intellectual property, copyright, bill o'reilly, fox news, fox, fox sports

• Handbook on participatory media/collective action

  Howard Rheingold and Xiao Qiang's journalism students at UC Berkeley put together a handbook on participatory media/collective action. Very well done. Read More... Posted Jan 04 2008, 02:35 PM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• Bush signs bill benefiting bloggers, citizen journalists

  Who knew something so forward-looking could come out of this Congress and this president? David Ardia at the IdeaLab blog: Bush Signs Freedom of Information Act Reform Bill Benefitting Bloggers. Excerpt: The legislation substantially reforms the Freedom... Posted Jan 03 2008, 12:47 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• Citizen journalism dominates online news in 2007

  Cyberjournalist.net: Citizen journalism dominates online news in 2007. Read More... Posted Dec 30 2007, 11:49 PM by Social Media Filed under: New media, Citizen media

• Neighborhood Public Radio mixes up art and radio

  SF Chronicle: Neighborhood Public Radio mixes up art and radio. Read More... Posted Dec 29 2007, 12:22 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media, Radio/audio

• MTV taps 51 state-based citizen journalists

  From MTV: MTV taps 51 state-based citizen journalists for Choose or Lose. From MTV, as part of its Emmy-winning Choose or Lose campaign, today unveiled “Street Team ’08”: a specially recruited group of 51 citizen journalists – one from every state and... Posted Dec 22 2007, 12:43 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• Training citizen journalists around the world

  IdeaLab: Training a New Generation of Citizen Journalists Around the World. Read More... Posted Dec 19 2007, 01:10 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• Q&A with founder of Pegasus News

  At State of Local, Bob Ingrassia has a Q&A with Mike Orren, publisher of Dallas-based citizen media site Pegasus News, which offers the Web. 2.0 feature The Daily You. Big media player Fisher Communications bought Pegasus in July and this gives a... Posted Dec 16 2007, 05:06 PM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• Creative Commons raises $13 million, launches 2 new licenses

  I've been scouring the blogosphere and news sources for other writeups about this, but so far haven't spotted a single posting. And there's not a word about this on the Creative Commons site. So I'll relate what I jotted down last night... Posted Dec 16 2007, 02:06 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Citizen media, Digital rights & copyright, Lawrence Lessig, creative commons

• Alive in Baghdad correspondent killed

  Grassroots media site AliveinBaghdad mourns the loss of one of its Iraqi correspondents and takes up a collection. Read More... Posted Dec 15 2007, 05:14 PM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media

• A guide to hyper-local news

  At MediaShift, Mark Glaser offers a guide to hyper-local news. Excerpt of resources: To learn more about hyper-local news sites, check out these news articles and blog posts: Co-Founder Potts Shares Lessons Learned from Backfence Bust at MediaShift Blogging... Posted Dec 14 2007, 12:27 AM by Social Media Filed under: Citizen media