What would Jeff do?

In case you hap­pen to be a journ­al­ist and Jeff Jar­vis still has you think­ing that news­pa­per prob­lems are your fault, take a look at the New York Times from July, 1980 (and if you like catchy head­lines, they don’t come much catch­ier than this):

First U.S. Exper­i­ments in Elec­tronic News­pa­pers Begin in Two Com­munit­ies; 13 News­pa­pers to Be Added The Need for News­pa­pers A Com­mu­nic­a­tions Devel­op­ment Tele­phone, Cable and Air­waves A Warn­ing on Reg­u­la­tion [pay access]. Con­tinue read­ing

Recruiting citizen video journalists

In case you wanted to know how to push cit­izen journ­al­ism fur­ther in video, a Flor­ida TV sta­tion has an inter­est­ing plan:

Tampa Bay’s 10 is look­ing for twenty people around the Bay area to help us with a spe­cial pro­ject. We will teach twenty lucky people how to shoot a video cam­era, and how to get the video to us here at the sta­tion. Con­tinue read­ing