2 Nov 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!
That’s kind of like iReport at CNN. People post videos and such.
Kat
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