A little more on the RSA Journalism Network

The RSA has provided a bit more information on their Journalism Network, started with the Reuters Institute of Journalism . As I wrote earlier it will be developed on an internal RSA site. It aims to “support the civic function of news” but will be focussed, says RSA staff member Rosie Anderson, on working, professional journalists as “a professional sub-culture, a community of practice”. Others who don’t fall into this category – termed “news users” – are encouraged to start their own discussions elsewhere … which I have done on the OpenRSA site.

Are transparency and information enough from the media?

British journalism professor Adrian Monck gives us a summary, on his blog, of his forthcoming book Can You Trust The Media?

The first two chapters look in detail at the recent crises in trust – the what, who, when, where and why of the events that have brought this issue to dominate so (read more...)

What might be the values of networked journalism?

You don’t need a website for online presence

Journalists consider civic role: privately

The RSA is launching an RSA Journalism Network, with this introduction from Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship:

The public’s declining trust in the news media is a worrying trend. The RSA and the Reuters Institute of (read more...)

Break open the walled gardens

The Economist sees little future for walled garden social networking sites like Facebook and Second Life if they continue to restrict the flow of content across the Internet. A few years back we had AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy each providing their own subscription-based services, and look what (read more...)

Connecting the excluded

One of the questions that Clay Shirky was asked when he spoke recently at the RSA about the role of online networks was how to tackle social exclusion, and connect people to greater opportunities. His answer: concentrate on (read more...)

Finding a second voice

I already have a blog, which I’ve been writing since 2003. So why  start another one? Partly because Designing for Civil Society feels a bit limiting; I do write a lot there about nonprofits, community engagement, e-democracy and the like, but I’m now more  interested in the way social media is changing how we (read more...)

How the social reporter idea started

I started thinking back in October 2006 about “social reporter” as a useful label for what I might do with a mix of social media tools and face-to-face activities.

As a role social reporter could sit with knowledge activist, technology steward, collaboration co-ordinator as a description for someone exploring how to do good stuff with new stuff. It also appealed to me as a former newspaper reporter now interested in how professionals and amateurs (or pro-ams) could work together on a new kind of news – what Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett and others call networked journalism. (read more...)