Posted by: deborahhirsch | November 2, 2008
Who needs journalism training anyway?
A site called NowPublic contacted me recently wanting to use one of my Day of the Dead photos with a story on the holiday. The premise of the site is “crowd powered media” – in other words, all the content is contributed by members of the public rather than trained journalists. I’ve seen sites like this before designed for smaller communities. Anyway, I thought it was interesting. If newspapers keep laying off reporters, this might be all that’s left for learning about what’s going on in the world!
