Chapter 3 Crowd-Powered Collaboration

Journalism in a modern society can be helped by gathering information from the "crowd."

Crowd Sourcing: a group of committed individuals can come come together to provide value for a website and outperform a small group of experienced professionals.

Open-Source reporting: using transparency to provide a benefit for your audience and acquire benefits.

Pro-am journalism: allows users to publish comments on the same platform that journalists write on.

Crowdsourcing is popular cause "citizens are desperate to broadcast their message to their communities, i.e. blogs. Crowdsourcing also provides more stories and human elements that journalists can use. For example, during the Florida hurricanes in 2004, journalists used information via crowdsourcing.

Open-Source reporting is important as modern journalism needs to be transparent, authentic and collaborative. It welcomes the audience's feedback. It started through email and now has evolved into on website tips.

An interesting take on this is beatblogging. Beatbloggers report on a specific topic and receive feedback on that topic.

**Links! Linking expands the web and can further peoples knowledge when journalists link information into their webstory.***

Pro-Am Journalism: DIY journalism allows people to be their own journalists. A popular known form of this is CNN's iReport.

Print journalism has tapped into the power of web journalism. For example, newspapers have print-only community newspapers.

Basically, online journalism and print journalism's future is towards a collaborative effort with the audience.