Features

When the Internet Reveals a Story

By Seth Hettena• Features• December 15, 2005

‘The challenge for me was to get the story off the Internet and into print.’ Read more

Journalism as a Conversation

By Jean K. Min• Features• December 15, 2005

‘Only as an afterthought did it dawn on us that the audience is the real content on the Web.’ Read more

With Citizens’ Visual News Coverage Standards Don’t Change

By Lou Ferrara and Santiago Lyon• Features• December 15, 2005

‘In an era in which digital alteration of images is increasingly easy, credibility is everything.’ Read more

Where Citizens and Journalists Intersect

By Dan Gillmor• Features• December 15, 2005

‘The crucial leap will be helping our audience become involved in the process much more directly.’ Read more

The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?

By Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman• Features• December 15, 2005

The news industry is a resilient bunch. Newspapers, in particular, represent some of the United States’s oldest and most respected companies. So far they have weathered storms of significant social, economic and technological change by figuring out how to transform … Read more

Citizen Journalism and the BBC

By Richard Sambrook• Features• December 15, 2005

‘… when major events occur, the public can offer us as much new information as we are able to broadcast to them. From now on, news coverage is a partnership.’ Read more

Fear, Loathing and the Promise of Public Insight Journalism

By Michael Skoler• Features• December 15, 2005

A journalist wonders whether the mainstream news media will adapt fast enough to their changing relationship with the public to survive. Read more

Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Became a Citizen Journalist

By Barry Parr• Features• December 15, 2005

Homepage of Coastsider. In May 2004, Barry Parr, a former Web site architect for the San Jose Mercury News and CNET’s News.com, introduced his own new Web site to an online audience. His initial … Read more

Cultures Clash in Coverage of a School Shooting

By Dan Gunderson• Features• September 15, 2005

Some reporters didn’t understand the implications of tribal sovereignty when they went to the Red Lake Indian Reservation to report this story. Read more

When Reporters Lack Access and Knowledge

By Dorreen Yellow Bird• Features• September 15, 2005

‘… access would be easier to achieve if reporters had been there to cover some of the more routine stories that had taken place on the reservation.’ Read more