{"id":990,"date":"2013-04-19T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:57","slug":"citizen-journalism-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2013\/04\/19\/citizen-journalism-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen journalism websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Witness <a href=\"https:\/\/witness.guardian.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/witness.guardian.co.uk\/<\/a>\u00a0A new site for citizens to share news photos and views. There will be an assignments section where editors will issue call outs for copy on specific topics.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/witness.guardian.co.uk\/assignment\/516e3c1de4b049aa25e5e87b\">See the contributions on Margaret thatcher\u2019s funeral.<\/a> They include some protest shots.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/\">CNN <\/a>has a similar citizen service which has been running for several years.\u00a0 See also its 36 stories that prove citizen journalism matters.<br \/>\nOther well-known sites:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/\">Global Voices<\/a>, an international community of bloggers reporting on global events. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=List_of_citizen_journalism_websites\">Sourcewatch<\/a> has a useful directory of initiatives from different countries worldwide.<br \/>\nIt also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Tools_for_citizen_journalism\">directory of tools which citizen journalists<\/a> can use to create sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Witness https:\/\/witness.guardian.co.uk\/\u00a0A new site for citizens to share news photos and views. There will be an assignments section where editors will issue call outs for copy on specific topics.\u00a0 See the contributions on Margaret thatcher\u2019s funeral. They include some protest shots. CNN has a similar citizen service which has been running for several years.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35,41,43,61,64,241,71,73,82],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-communication","tag-democracy","tag-digital-media","tag-internet","tag-journalism","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-protest","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}