Five Grassroots JournalismTips to Get You Out of the House
Five Grassroots JournalismTips to Get You Out of the House
Submitted by kpaul.mallasch on Wed, 12/21/2005 - 12:37pm.Earlier this month, Amy Gahran over at I, Reporter posted a list of five things CitJ publishers can do to "get out" more. Personally, I think getting out into the public sphere is important. It's something I hope to do more with Muncie Free Press next year.
Gahran wrote:
Yes, I sometimes feel a bit too isolated and inactive. And yes, I know it's my own fault. Fortunately, citizen journalism offers a good solution to that problem. I can use it as both an excuse and a motivation to get out and about in my community. Whether I post coverage to one of my own blogs, to a discussion forum or message board, or to local news sites (such as the Rocky Mountain News site YourHub.com), there's always some easy and appropriate venue for my volunteer news coverage.
The tips are pretty basic, but it's good to get them down somewhere so discussions can form around them.
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Gee, I hope it works
Because I just read a story about the cultural changes around the celebration of the holidays and a social historian was quoted as saying that people in our society are becoming less and less socially involved as time goes by. That's why fewer people go out caroling, fewer send greeting cards and more spend the holidays at home watching TBS' "24 Hours of 'A Christmas Story.'"
I don't think it's a stretch to say that such a social environment presents a stern challenge to the notion of citizen journalism. Nor can I resist the irony: Journalism evolved quickly in the days when people were more socially engaged; it struggles in the days when people have turned their focuses inward; now journalists are trying to get people to become, in principle, more socially involved.
I think a lot of prayer is called for.