Citizen reporters
: Doc Searls tried to help out an old-media radio station and contribute a report on an earthquake. They didn’t know what to do with it. The wise media outlet will find ways to turn readers into reporters.
2 responses to “Citizen reporters”
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The wise media outlet will find ways to turn readers into reporters.
That would be the logical next step in the capitalist model of media production. Make the consumers become producers, without the benefit of wages. Sweet! -
“Journalistic outsourcing” is my term for it.
Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing. But that’s what it is.
