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The rise of the citizen media editor

Mark Glaser interviews several people who might someday have the title “Citizen Media Editor,” an official position in the newsroom responsible for the news outlet’s participatory journalism efforts. Writing in Online Journalism Review, Glaser notes…

...it’s not surprising that the more industrious news sites have started to ask their readers to take on citizen media projects, submit photos, start a blog or give live online feedback that runs beneath each staff-written story.

Managing these efforts is the emerging role of the citizen media editor, Glaser suggests.

Part chat moderator, part copy editor and part ombudsman, the citizen media editor is such a new role that no one really has that title, yet. Alicia Hoffman at VenturaCountyStar.com is multimedia editor. Lex Alexander at News-Record.com is a staff writer at the News & Record newspaper and citizen-journalism coordinator at the Web site (as well as a blogger for the site).

Glaser explores the jobs of each of these editors and adds commentary from Dan Gillmor, among others. Worth a read.

 

03/22/05 | 0 Comments | The rise of the citizen media editor

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