03.16.2010 at 10:50 am | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Vietnamese Blogs: It’s not only blogging

From the almost ground zero blog usage, Vietnam has turned into one of the world’s hot spot for blogs. Vietnamese use this platform not simply because they want to post what’s on their mind but to embrace the freedom that they don’t have outside of the internet.

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03.15.2010 at 3:15 pm | Category Case Studies, Featured // Have your say »

UGC: The future of journalism – or just rumors?

Journalists write the news. The public reads it. But when the audience becomes the journalist, does it open a can of worms for the gatekeepers of news or does it spur a better reportage and diversify content? Are journalists ready to listen when the world starts talking? Read more…

03.15.2010 at 10:18 am | Category Case Studies, Featured // 1 Comment »

Weathering the storm: Citizen journalists saved the day for reporters

Armed only with their digital cameras, ordinary Filipinos captured the images of the devastation of twin storms that swept through the country.  See the audioslideshow of the gripping photos that came from amateur journalists. Read more…

03.15.2010 at 10:05 am | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Rival publications differ on citizen journalism

Two rival newspapers, Gießener Zeitung and Gießener Allgemeine sharply differ on the role of UGC in news gathering. The former is all for it while the latter reckons that it has no use for “story telling.”

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03.12.2010 at 3:58 pm | Category Case Studies, Featured // 2 Comments »

MoJane: A role-model for journalists?

Editor of the future? At Rhein-Zeitung Ms. Katrin Steinert works as a mobile journalist equipped with photo and video cameras, iPhone, laptop and audio recorder. Read more…

03.12.2010 at 2:57 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Google to compete with Facebook and Twitter

Google has launched a new service, Google Buzz,  to stand in competition with Facebook and Twitter. Although  the new service has been met with lots of complains by its users, can it compete with the other established forms of social media? Read more…

03.09.2010 at 5:00 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Netizens, new rising power with double edges

In yesteryear times, pen might be mightier than swords. Not these days in Indonesia when new empire is on the rise, the Internet. Read more…

03.09.2010 at 4:57 pm | Category Case Studies // 1 Comment »

The secrets behind Rhein-Zeitung

The Rhein-Zeitung in Koblenz has a huge readership gained through its use of  social media like Twitter or “Wer kennt wen” compared to other media in Germany. In an interview, the Editor-In-Chief  Joachim Türk, told us the secrets behind its strategy.

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03.09.2010 at 4:55 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Traditional journalism is true journalism – GAZ

Traditional journalists are hopeful about their profession but they are gradually loosing their business in advertisement market. A group of people have come in front of the readers with the idea of citizen journalism and earning popularity especially among the youth. Read more…

03.09.2010 at 4:54 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

GEO.de vows more to cluck users

Starting with reluctant toe-dipping into the world of the Internet, German-based glossy magazine GEO.de needs more than a decade to realize state-of-the-art way to reach to its valued readers through the website. Read more…

03.09.2010 at 4:49 pm | Category Case Studies // Comments Off

How German media and press use user-generated content

In Germany, while a regional newspaper has been using user-generated content (UGC) in 70 percent of its contents, some other newspapers are still cautious in using UGC. This shows the different recognition of reliability of UGC among German media and press.    

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03.09.2010 at 4:47 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Germany’s public broadcaster view on user generated content

How does a news channel verify and broadcast videos shown on social platforms like YouTube without covering the event on its own?And can this material be trusted to be broadcast on a national television channel?

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03.09.2010 at 4:42 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Google joins social media race

Popular search engine Google has joined the race between Face book and Twitter with a new service – Google Buzz. Read more…

03.09.2010 at 4:31 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Conquering doubts: GEO.de’s story on user-generated contents

Several newspapers, magazines, and websites worldwide utilize user-generated content (UGC) but would you really allow laymen to use your publication’s esteemed reputation to post their works? Read more…

03.09.2010 at 4:29 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

German TV warms to citizen reporting

Collaboration between citizens and media organizations is an important tool if user generated content is to be successfully integrated into journalistic practice.

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03.09.2010 at 4:28 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Too good to be true: As citizens produce their own paper

Gießener-THEY work hard to produce the Gießener Zeitung. All 3, 500 of them. And they are all citizen reporters. Read more…

03.09.2010 at 4:18 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

GEO.de: Yes to photos, no to text from users

Quality is never an accident but a plethora of careful scrutiny over contents for glossy and upmarket science magazine GEO.de.. Read more…

03.09.2010 at 2:54 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Community journalism not for traditional newspapers-FAZ

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has no plans to include any material generated by community journalists in its newspaper and website. Read more…

02.23.2010 at 5:07 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

A new trend called citizen journalism

Can ordinary people really take part in the media world? In delivering the news? Read more…

02.19.2010 at 5:31 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Storms turn Filipino citizens into reporters

A powerful storm that drowned several cities in the Philippines became one of the most important turning point for the country’s online media. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 3:07 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Whistleblower saves Ghana minors from US paedophile

But for the timely intervention of a citizen journalist, a 65-year-old American paedophile, Patrick Ken Larbash would have been walking freely on the streets of Ghana. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 3:04 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Future of journalism is hyperlocal

Many media experts think hyperlocal journalism is changing the existing media landscape particularly in the West. Many think the future of journalism is hyperlocal. Is this no-cost journalism a threat to the mainstream media?
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02.19.2010 at 2:42 pm | Category Case Studies, Featured // 1 Comment »

New media tool exposes Tanzania Albino killings

More than 50 people with albinism have been murdered in Tanzania since 2007, by people who believe that albinos body parts could make one rich. The media failed to highlight the albino killings – so ordinary people had to do their job. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 2:36 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Media watchdogs monitoring news on the internet

The emergence of blogs on the Internet in the past years has created media watchdogs in the form of blogs that monitor news content of big news organisations, questioning some of the stories that are carried by these news websites. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 1:39 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

BBC opens new front in journalism

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has introduced a new way of newsgathering in a blog where they invite citizens to produce a documentary.

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02.19.2010 at 1:31 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Bangladesh starts online, multimedia journalism practices

Media houses in Bangladesh have huge potentials in using the user-generated contents in their news items as the country has a booming growth of internet and mobile phone uses over the last one decade. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 1:12 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

How Zim citizens became reporters during 2008 presidential elections

IN Zimbabwe, Citizen Journalism played a major role in the delayed release of March 2008 presidential election results. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 1:01 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Crowdsourcing in western world

Crowdsourcing, engaging a large group of people from various places to work on a single or multiple task, is increasing its number of companies and consumers  day by day in western world, while eastern countries are quite oblivious of it.  Read more…

02.19.2010 at 12:35 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Citizen Journalism on the next level – The Ghana experience

It was not an isolated case but perhaps the only one that was exposed, however, not through the lenses of a journalist. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 11:39 am | Category Case Studies, Featured // 1 Comment »

At a crossroads: Kenyan blogger comes to the rescue

For Ory Okolloh, who came back home to elect her next leader, the events that followed would forever change her life. She had flown into Kenya from her base in South Africa to exercise her constitutional right to vote in the 2007 General Election. Read more…