Crowd Sourcing:

News media’s changing Relationship with

Audiences

Reasons for Changes

• Technological: networked comm enabled by internet and comm devices

• Social/Cultural: de-professionalization, some claim flattening hierarchies

• Economic: Funding models for news collapsing

Origins of Term

• Jeff Howe, Wired, 2006

Wisdom of CrowdsJames Surowiecki

• Individuals operating independently of each other will collectively make better decisions than experts

Examples

http://www.baycitizen.org/data/bike-accidents/

http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/

http://ushahidi.com/

Crowd Funding

• Audience pays for news to get reported

http://www.kickstarter.com/

http://spot.us/

Meaning?