Open Directory - News: Media: Participatory: Resources
See also: - Founded by Dan Gillmor, the nonprofit center aims at helping to enable grassroots media at every level. Lists current projects. - Press agency for citizen reporters to sell photographs and videos worldwide. Also offers buyers guide for digital cameras and camcorders. Partly owned by Agence France presse. [In English and French]. - Nonprofit group working to protect digital rights. Offers information about legal issues related to intellectual property (copyrights), privacy, access to public records, defamation (libel), election and labor law, and obscenity issues. - Share photos of breaking news. Best are selected to be highlighted at CNN.com in its "I-Reports" section. - Group sharing and discussing citizen and collaborative photojournalism assignments. - Weblog devoted to citizen journalism, run by freelance writer/editors Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn. Offers tips and examples. - Tips on how to take great photos, videos, and audio when reporting. Also available as PDF. - Active organization promoting the development, study and training of participatory journalists. - Edited by David Cohn, this an experiment in open-source reporting tracks developments in interactive journalism. - Covers issues about online news worldwide. Resource for news industry leaders, publishers, editors, bloggers, educators and anyone watching trends in news-gathering. - Provides "how-to" guides for videoblogs, podcasts, and filing multi-media news stories. Also offers a repository of audio, video and photo content, and an open media directory. - Collaborative directory of people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. Catalogs PR firms, activist groups and government agencies, along with the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. - Documents five steps to becoming a citizen journalist. Compiled by a group of professional journalists who volunteer time to teach anyone the skills to produce accurate, compelling news reports. - An incubator to help stimulate citizen involvement in community issues. Guidelines for funding, lists projects, research, plus entry details for the Batten Award for Civic Journalism. - Offers guidelines for reporters. Covers sourcing, disclosure of potential conflicts, and preparing for interviews.
