Participatory Journalism

I’m David Cohnwww.digidave.org

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“The era of a passive reader isn’t over............

I HAVE GREAT NEWS!!!!!

• it never existed.

R.E.M.L.

What do we mean when we say.....

“Participation”

Cliffs Notes: It means doing things together.....

Easier now: Just imagine organizing last nights drinkup without Twitter.

Participation has many forms

Distributing the work loadCitizen journalism

User generated contentdistributed reporting

Pro/Am

Lends itself to certain types of reporting

Community Funded Reporting!

• Distributing the financial loadThis is a form of participation....

Community Funded Reporting

What’s the public perspective?Transparency and Control

They set the agenda

a menu

Won a national award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Making Contact (NRP)

East Bay Express

Spot.Us Community“it made me feel empowered”

Oakland Tribune

The I “Hella” Hate Potholes Bike Hunt

From the Journalism Side• Freelancers pitching the world

Freelancing 30 years ago

• Not that different today.

• It is an opaque process

Seven Small News Organizations

KALW

Placeblogger

New American Media

Oakland Local

Reporting Happens in Public

• The process of writing this crowd-funded story and of blogging about it is going to be a new experience for me. The old method of writing a story was to get approval from your editor, and then the story was something of a secret except for those who needed to know. When you were done, you published your story and you wowed the city with it, and made your competitors at other Seattle daily newspapers curse that they hadn't thought of it first. (Or, at least that was the fantasy that we journalists had.)

• So what's the process now? It's developing, that's for sure. I would be very interested in hearing suggestions for aspects of the story to cover, or things you'd be interested in reading in the blog.

What about Scoops!

Transparency• “For well-informed participation to

occur, it is argued that some version of transparency, e.g. radical transparency, is necessary, but not sufficient.”

Why Experiment?

• Rule of the Internet: Cheaper/Easier to try than to debate about trying.

• Stems from “Agile and Iterative” Fail early, fail often - try again.

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You can steal this idea!• No joke: There are several ways - ask me how.

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