Colleen Wilson

“The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no longer sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the internet. What they need is somebody to add value to that information by processing it–digesting it, organizing it, making it useful.” -Phil Meyer

crowdsourcing: The internet allows enthusiastic communities to come together and provide the value for a given web site. Crowd sourcing focuses that community power on a specific project and demonstrates how a group of committed individuals can outperform a small group of experienced (and paid) professionals

– termed by Jeff Howe in 2006

-like outsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a living working experiment, it works in some situations and fails in others.

open-source reporting: the term “open source” refers to design, development and distribution “offering practical accessibility to a product’s source (goods and knowledge).” Applying this concept to journalism means using transparency in reporting in order to provide a benefit to your audience and possilbiy acquire benefits from your audience.

-new digital tools bring journalists closer to readers

-transparency allows readers to help report the story

Opening up the door to feedback increases journalistic credibility and social capital.

pro-am journalism: the most unfiltered form of collaborative journalism allows the audience to publish directly to the same platform or website, that professional journalists use to publish their news

-DIY journalism

-“readers can help provide the ‘what’; journalists can then provide the ‘why'”

-CNN’s iReport

By joining forces with the readership, journalists are able to go more in depth and cover things they never would have known about.