“We believe for local news to have a future, it has to be built for people when they truly need information before it is built for people when they are just curious.”
“The goal is not to produce content for media outlets. It’s to repair broken bridges with local government, to get people to the meetings, get their voices heard, and figure out the line between where the active citizen and journalist is.”
Chicago’s City Bureau is betting on local residents doing this sort of low-key not-quite-journalism at meetings, and now it’s expanding the model to Detroit.
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Schmidt, Christine. "It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Jan. 2018. Web. 24 Jul. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2018, Jan. 11). It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/its-not-citizen-journalism-but-it-is-citizens-taking-notes-at-public-meetings-with-no-reporters-around/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 11, 2018. Accessed July 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/its-not-citizen-journalism-but-it-is-citizens-taking-notes-at-public-meetings-with-no-reporters-around/.
Wikipedia
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