citizen journalism

Journalism requires not only a business model, but a culture. At the Center for Future Civic Media, we sometimes take a moment to reflect on the online news experiments begun in the pioneer digital media days in the 1990s, to keep a clear head about how journalism and social networks intersect. But perhaps we shouldn’t use the j-word.

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to listen to Ethan Zuckerman speak during MIT’s Communications Forum, “What is Civic Media?” After the event, I spoke to Ethan Zuckerman about Global Voices Online, an organization that he co-founded with journalist Rebecca McKinnon through Ha