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Media
Gillmor to leave San Jose Mercury News
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 12/10/2004 - 11:00In Dan Gillmor’s eJournal yesterday, he announced that he “be leaving the San Jose Mercury News next month to work on a citizen-journalism project.” I’m very excited about this, and I wonder how it will related to the Investigative Blogging project. For those who are really curious about the project, visit the prototype of our community site that is currently in development. Note: it is still very early on, so don’t expect a lot of things to be working yet. However, comments are appreciated.
Also, if you haven’t checked out Epic yet, please do. I’m very interested in how all of it fits together.
Epic
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 12/07/2004 - 15:45In my discussions about Investigative Blogging, I have started getting great information from all kinds of sources. Krista Bradford forwarded a link to >>>>this<<<<. It is a presentative by alums of the Poynter Institute which she received from Nora Paul.
If you use Blogger, Google, buy things from Amazon, use Microsoft or Sony products, or read the New York Times, you must watch this.
It takes about eight minutes to watch the whole thing, but it is worth it. It should open up in a seperate window, so those of you who are coming through Blog Explosion can watch it without it messing up your BlogExplosion windows.
I would love to hear people's reactions.
Update: Via Blog Explosion, I just found another blog pointing to this site.
Bush Arrest, Dow Chemical accepts responsibility, and other media events
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 12/04/2004 - 14:17(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
Today, I received an email on one of the many mailing lists I am on entitled:
"I thought it was a joke, but...CNN:Bush arrested in Canada for war crimes"
It pointed to a 'CNN' article, which is an amazing article, with some great lines in it. I encourage everyone to read it.
As some of you know, I've joined Investigative Reporters and Editors. I want to find out the real story, and not just rely on secondary or tertiary sources.
Investigative Blogging
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 11/04/2004 - 16:07When I, and several others, received press credentials from the Democrats to blog from their national convention this summer, many people complained that we weren’t real journalists. That is true. I have not been to J school. Nor do I make any pretense at being a journalist. I tend to think of myself as more of an activist and an op-ed writer.
That said, I have a great respect for the profession of journalism, and I believe that bloggers can learn a lot from journalists. Today, I received a call from a friend who is a retired investigative reporter. She believes that given the current economics of the news industry an insufficient amount of investigative reporting is being done. She would like to see some sort of grassroots fund to support investigative reporting.
Freedom of the Press
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 10/16/2004 - 05:21(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
During the Democratic National Convention, there was a lot of discussion about whether or not bloggers are really journalists. I would like to take this a little bit and wonder if we are part of the ‘press’ and what that means.
The first amendment says, “Congress shall make no … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”. When this was written, an important part of the press were the pamphleteers and these days, bloggers are often spoken about as the modern day pamphleteers.
