Center for Citizen Media: Blog

There are big changes afoot in the Knight Fellowships program at Stanford University:
Beginning with the 2009-10 fellowship year, the program will put a new emphasis on journalistic innovation, ent...

Mark Glaser: MediaShift . Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business? Bands do it. Filmmakers do it. President-elect Barack Obama made an artform out of it. “It” is crowdfunding, getting mi...

Josh Marshall observes the 8th birthday of Talking Points Memo today and suggests there’s even better to come.
TPM is one of the great examples of how new media can work. Marshall is one of the be...

Editor & Publisher: API Hosting ‘Crisis Summit’ for Newspaper Industry. The American Press Institute (API) will host an invitation-only, closed-door “summit conference” Nov. 13 in which 50 CEO-leve...

David Cohn, one of the bright lights among new journalists, has launched Spot.us, a site that aims to persuade people from communities to send money to support excellent journalism about specific i...

This is the BlogBoat, site of a small gathering this afternoon in Gent, Belgium, where I’m speaking with a group of journalists, bloggers and others in new media. The topic, “Citizen Journalism: Sc...

The AP reports, “Palin derides anonymous critics on Fox as cowards,” a reference to a recent Fox News segment in which a correspondent relayed a variety of negative attacks from, he said, members o...

I know is was supposed to be up there just for a month, but the great Google Search 2001 page now returns: 404 - Page Not Found. What a shame — this was an invaluable feature.

I’m joining Mark Glaser and a cast of folks in an online PBS chat today and this evening. It’s here.

Looking forward to BlogBoat 1.0 on Sunday, Nov. 9 in Ghent, Belgium. The “Meeting of Minds” gathering will explore citizen media and, among other things, its relationship to traditional journalism.