Thursday, April 29, 2010
Plane Crash In New York's Hudson River
This video is taken from a live broadcast of NBC News during the incident in New York when flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson. The news anchor is asking an eyewitness to describe what he saw and his reaction to the accident. Because a news crew was not able to record what happended, a witness was able to give the news organization an insight to what occured.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Welcome to our blog!
The purpose of this blog is for us to be able to show off citizen journalism! Many newspapers and television news stations are now making it so that their viewers become the reporters, allowing them to show off things in their surroundings that are important to them. We encourage you to add whatever you feel is important to you in your surrounding community of TAMUCC and beyond!
This is also a place where we are going to discuss a little bit more about citizen journalism and other websites that have their audience participate in news making, whether it is serious news or no so serious news.
Enjoy!
~Josh, Rob, and Amy
The purpose of this blog is for us to be able to show off citizen journalism! Many newspapers and television news stations are now making it so that their viewers become the reporters, allowing them to show off things in their surroundings that are important to them. We encourage you to add whatever you feel is important to you in your surrounding community of TAMUCC and beyond!
This is also a place where we are going to discuss a little bit more about citizen journalism and other websites that have their audience participate in news making, whether it is serious news or no so serious news.
Enjoy!
~Josh, Rob, and Amy
A Timeline of New Media
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75953&sid=26
The link above features a timeline between mainstream media, the shift to new media, and how it begins to become more user-friendly, beginning from 1969. Some of the most recent examples of citizen journalism include:
In 2003, BBC asked its audience to send in photos of the Iraq conflict. The outlet received hundreds of photos.
In 2002, More than 1,300 North American daily newspapers have launched online services. Worldwide, there are now more than 5,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online.
Around mid-2003, 150 million people in the United States went online (Two-thirds of whom used online media to recive news).
In 2009, a study from from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) 70 percent of journalists said they use social networks to assist in reporting (compared to 41 percent last year). In the same survey, 69 percent of respondents use company websites to assist in their reporting, 66 percent use blogs, 51 percent use Wikipedia, 48 percent go to online videos, and 47 percent use Twitter and other microblogging services.
Sooooo..... With the rapidly spreading popularity (and capabilities) of new media, social networking sites and user-generated information sites (ex: Wikipedia), are we opening new venues for citizen journalists to tell their story? If so, how does the mainstream media compete (or coexist) with these new expansions?
The link above features a timeline between mainstream media, the shift to new media, and how it begins to become more user-friendly, beginning from 1969. Some of the most recent examples of citizen journalism include:
In 2003, BBC asked its audience to send in photos of the Iraq conflict. The outlet received hundreds of photos.
In 2008, the first report of NBC News journalist Tim Russert’s death was posted on Wikipedia rather than by the NBC network, which had held the story until Russert’s family had been contacted.
In June 2009 the "Neda" YouTube video of a young woman protester dying on the streets of Tehran spreads among social networks and traditional news organizations. User-generated crisis reporting becomes more common, and with it, more challenges for traditional media outlets on how to present it.
It is also around the early 2000s we see the shift to online media:
In 2002, More than 1,300 North American daily newspapers have launched online services. Worldwide, there are now more than 5,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online.
Around mid-2003, 150 million people in the United States went online (Two-thirds of whom used online media to recive news).
In 2009, a study from from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) 70 percent of journalists said they use social networks to assist in reporting (compared to 41 percent last year). In the same survey, 69 percent of respondents use company websites to assist in their reporting, 66 percent use blogs, 51 percent use Wikipedia, 48 percent go to online videos, and 47 percent use Twitter and other microblogging services.
Sooooo..... With the rapidly spreading popularity (and capabilities) of new media, social networking sites and user-generated information sites (ex: Wikipedia), are we opening new venues for citizen journalists to tell their story? If so, how does the mainstream media compete (or coexist) with these new expansions?
SafetySuit Opening Act Kicked Off Stage
During the Campus Activities Board (CAB) concert April 21, Charles Colley, lead singer of the local band Shrimp Scampi and Heavenly Blues, was escorted off the stage by university police. This left concertgoers with an additional 45-minute intermission before SafetySuit took the stage. I took these photos of Colley being escorted off the stage by police.
According to the police report on the TAMUCC Web site, Colley was issued a citation (not arrested, as it appeared) with a liquor law violation.
This citation poses many questions to why Colley was escorted off stage. If he was kicked off for his vocal obscenities, then where does the liquor law violation come in? Were Colley's 1st Amendment rights violated? Who gave police authority to escort him off the stage?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Tips on Citizen Journalism
This video is really helpful when anyone wants to go out and record news as it happens live in front of you. The video is taken from the Reporters' Center channel from YouTube. The link is under "News Links" on the blog page.
CNN iReport: Aftermath of Earthquake in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
With citizen journalism, this video is a great example of why many news media organizations turn to the public to bring unspotted stories. The devestation in Haiti after the powerful earthquake left communication outside the country almost impossible. Major news networks such as CNN turned to the public in Haiti to provide any sort of breaking news, descriptions of damage, any aftershocks, the condition of the other victims of the earthquake, and much more detail until electricity was restored.
Cell phones, video camcorders, digital cameras, and a whole assortment of other new technological advances have helped in showing different perspectives of major news events. Not every news organization is able to cover a story from all angles but this is where the public can help in providing additional footage of different perspectives.
Breakers Update!
There is an odd stillness in Breaker's Game room on campus. The cause of all this is the silence coming from the popcorn machine which is usually hot and poppin throughout the day providing free popcorn to all. It was to my amazement that my occasional afternoon snack would not be available till finals. Due to the Study Center, where the UC is open 24 hours for all night studying, staff members have decided to save up on popcorn supply in order to have plenty for late night study breaks.
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