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August 19, 2004
Everyone loves a freebie
Blogger and writer Dan Gillmor has released a freely accessible version of his book We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People which you can find at www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/. The aim of the book is to examine where journalism is going, in a world where email, mobile phones, camera phones and blogs enable all kinds of people to be reporters.Gillmor talks about the changes that September 11 has wrought:
"... news was being produced by regular people who had something to say and show, and not solely by the “official” news organizations that had traditionally decided how the first draft of history would look. This time, the first draft of history was being written, in part, by the former audience. It was possible—it was inevitable—because of new publishing tools available on the Internet.
Another kind of reporting emerged during those appalling hours and days. Via emails, mailing lists, chat groups, personal web journals—all nonstandard news sources—we received valuable context that the major American media couldn’t, or wouldn’t, provide.
We were witnessing—and in many cases were part of—the future of news." Gillmor's talk to the UK Guardian about his book is here.
Posted by belinda at August 19, 2004 04:59 PM