Part 1: Introduction

This segment will introduce participants to working with citizen reporters.

The main content of the segment will cover definitions and examples of citizen journalism.

1. Definitions of participatory/civic media, citizen journalism and crowdsourced journalism
2. Examples of citizen journalism from SF Public Press, Twin Cities Daily Planet, The Rapidian and CNN's iReport
3. Examples of crowsourced and civic media from GOOD and Scientific America.

Links cited in this chapter:

• Citizen journalism examples:
• SF Public Press
• Twin Cities Daily Planet
• The Rapidian
• CNN's iReport

• Crowdsourcing/civic media examples:
• GOOD
• Scientific America, Citizen Science Whale Songs Project