Cpsc110/Assignment/Citizen journalism

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From Humanitarian-FOSS Project Development Site

These pages provide a detailed and factual assessment of various citizen news sources, in each case comparing a mainstream source--i.e., one associated with an established news organization--with a non-mainstream source. The main questions addressed in the articles are:

• How and when the various sources got started.
• What sort of readership and participation they currently have.
• How they compare in their coverage of the news.

Helpful Links

Some links to get you started on editing Wikis:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
• Very important: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

Class Articles

• I-Report and The Huffington Post
• TMZ and The Superficial
• Digg and MSNBC's Newsvine
• Wikinews and CNN Online