Chapter 5: Going Mobile
In New York Times in 2009, John Markoff wrote “the four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real world.” The mobile technology already has evolved enough to create a whole new field in journalism: mobile reporting. Due […]
Chapter 3: Crowd-Powered Collaboration
In this chapter, Briggs discuss about new reporting methods that are being paid more focus in the U.S.: Crowdsourcing, open-source reporting and pro-am journalism. Crowdsourcing Also known as distributed reporting, crowdsourcing is sourcing of the large crowd of communities gathered within the internet, that often outperforms professionals. For example, Mechanical Turk by Amazon.com, Image Labeler […]
