Tag: CITIZENJOURNALISM

After a dearth of old-school, English-language reporting on yesterday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti, people were naturally turning to Twitter to share photos and news of this horrific event. Even the New York Times does not appear to have correspondents anywhere near Port-au-Prince, or even in the country; the top story on NYTimes.com today was reported from Santo Domingo and Mexico City. ...

Twitter is quickly becoming the source for breaking news. We've seen it before with earthquakes, plane crashes, voting irregularities, fires, and even the discovery of ice on mars. So it should come as no surprise that today's news of US Airways flight 1549 that crashed into the Hudson River broke on Twitter first. Details are still pouring in, but Twitter users continued to beat the mainstream ...

Some jerk sent the interwebs into a tizzy and Apple stock prices into a free fall Friday when he used CNN's iReport citizen journalism site to spread word that Steve Jobs had suffered a massive heart attack. Unfortunately, the multitude of blogs that repeated the rumors of Jobs' heart trouble failed to do any basic fact checking and as it turns out Steve Jobs was not rushed to the hospital. Some ...

Happy belated birthday, blogosphere! In case you didn't know, December 17 was the 10th anniversary of the term 'Weblog,' which was shortened to 'blog' at some point. The term started with a man, Jorn Barger, who used the phrase to describe his Web page where he posted links of interesting things he found around the Internet. Back in 1997, blogging was hardly the phenomenon it is today. Some of ...