93. Citizens As Budding Reporters And Editors (1999) | 93 Studios

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93. Citizens As Budding Reporters And Editors (1999)

1999 doesn’t seem like so long ago but in Internet time it might as well be the beginning of the last Ice Age. In 1999, J.D. Lasica wrote what might be my favorite article in this story (which is why I saved it for last). He was speaking about citizen journalism from the other side of the last Internet bubble. He wasn’t informed by the rise of online advertising and its fall over the last year, he knew nothing about how deep of a wound sites like Craigslist and Monster would leave in the classified industry, he didn’t know about blogs and vlogs and Twitter.

What he speaks about in this article is citizen journalism in its purist form, the idea that regular people can have a profound effect on how the news is gathered. He speaks about it and points out that the fact the people putting their hats in the ring is a good thing,

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