Report: Open Journalism

Open journalism is a phrase that has crept into the news industry’s vocabulary over the past few months and which has recently been given a substantial boost by the Guardian in the UK, whose open journalism efforts were marked by an “Open Weekend” held at the paper at the end of March.

by Anton Jolkovski anton.jolkovski@wan-ifra.org | July 9, 2012

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We have drawn together the leading arguments around the issue and collected key examples of open journalism that highlight different approaches from very different types of news organisations.

From the table of contents:

  • What is Open Journalism and what is its appeal?
  • Live chats: creating a dialogue with readers at Norran and Le Monde
  • Le Monde: inspired by chat windows on Facebook and Google
  • The Guardian: harnessing the masses to cover UK riots
  • Crowdsourcing: engage networks to improve journalism
  • Dagbladet Information’s crowd-based think tank
  • La Silla Vacía helps readers see who wields power in Colombia
  • User-generated content becomes useful
  • Al Jazeera and the Arab uprisings
  • Archant: using reader contributions to improve local reporting
  • Economist translates brand distinction into social media
  • Inviting the readers into the newsroom: The Register Citizen

Anton Jolkovski

anton.jolkovski@wan-ifra.org