BBC: Bill Thompson on journalism in the ‘network age’
April 11th, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Journalism
While the majority of online news continues to be produced or edited by professionals, online journalism teacher Bill Thompson says journalists should not ignore the benefits of closer collaboration with citizens – in particular when reporting outside the western world.
“The idea of the “foreign correspondent”, sent off to a strange land to report on the activities of the “natives” for the benefit of those who require their strange customs to be interpreted and sanitised is a relic of a pre-network age.”
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