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Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor - 2:47 PM (edited) - Public
A journalist friend asks this useful question:
'The amorphous nature of OWS clearly presents serious challenges for orthodox reporting approaches. So I am in search of examples of unorthodox reporting efforts underway and am thinking that perhaps there are some interesting things happening digitally that I am not aware of. Have you seen any interesting digital-only coverage of OWS out there? If so, could you point me to it?'
I'm thinking of Oakland Local as one example. Any others you can point to in NYC and elsewhere?
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Barbara Jean Walsh - Susie Cagle in Oakland:
http://www.thisiswhatconcernsme.com/
and
http://www.alternet.org/story/152990/police_state_in_oakland_one_reporter%27s_arrest_contradicts_official_story/?page=3
2:48 PM
Trevor Lee - http://convozine.com/ows this is a pretty excellent example.
This is an example of a collaborative space - anyone can join this page and submit content and/or articles. Fairly unique in that respect I think.
2:51 PM (edited)
darien train - Be the new journalism you want to read in the world.
2:56 PM
Ben Nash - I've been watching ustream and livestream coverage of occupy Oakland and SF
2:59 PM
Rachel Kane - Timeline and Interactive map of the movement around the globe. Very cool way to document what's happening: https://intersect.com/2MS6DSP5cL5g/#/
3:02 PM
Bob Lai - A photostream of Occupy Oakland (not mine): http://www.flickr.com/photos/en_pj/page2
3:03 PM
Jason Pramas - our coverage of Occupy Boston was so heavy that we went from a weekly schedule to daily for a month http://www.openmediaboston.org
3:44 PM (edited)
Alan Wexelblat - I don't think it's that unique and really doesn't require a massive new framing. Let me take a single example: +Xeni Jardin (who I can't seem to properly +name anymore) has been 'covering' #Occupy through her blogging at Boingboing. She's been to some events and reported on her personal experiences, but mostly she's pointed to YouTube videos, twittered and retweeted interesting links, followed the streams of @ows and others who are speaking live from the source, and responded to conventional news coverage.
The difference I see is that the story writes itself. It's an organic mash-up, bottom-up, grassroots (though I hate that term) way of generating information, which the reporter manages and monitors, culls and organizes, and provides a layer of continuity and viewpoint to go with.
The problem here is the conventional journalistic idea that there is 'a' story that can be written by someone coming from outside who will neatly summarize things. I am reminded very strongly of the old model clash between Victorian-era anthropologists and late 20th century ethnomethodologists. If you want to be a good reporter in the 21st century, you do better to emulate the latter, imnvho.
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