Citizen journalism, old school

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

A friend of Jay Gabler sent him a reminiscence about "old school" citizen journalism from the 1960s.

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Crowdsourcing and the news

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

Crowdsourcing the news - gathering information from anyone who chooses to contribute - has some obvious possibilities and problems, starting with:

Possibilities:

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Who writes for the Daily Planet?

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

I just compiled a list of writers who contributed to the TC Daily Planet during the first part of 2010.

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Teaching kids the wrong lesson

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

This time it's not a parent or a teacher, but the news media who are teaching kids the wrong lesson - about politics, about protest, and about civic participation.

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Blogging on the TC Daily Planet

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

Every TC Daily Planet reader is a potential blogger.

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Twin Cities Homeless Man Walking - and writing

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

He calls himself "Twin Cities White Collar Homeless Man Walking," and he describes himself as "a 54 [year-old] white collar professional with over 27 years of mkt.

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New media follows history on the Hill

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Patrick Ness, via Facebook

I couldn't get to the 5 a.m.

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Now THAT'S citizen journalism!

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

From covering the Academy Awards to suing for access to court records, TC Daily Planet citizen journalists are on the front lines.

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Blog around the world

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

If you read the TC Daily Planet, you would probably like some of the blogs and bloggers that I met today at the USC Annenberg conference on Community Health and the Blogosphere.

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My inbox

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

Morguefile photo

Many news stories go untold every day, judging by the overload of news releases and notices that arrive in my inbox every day. I get at least a hundred real messages daily (in addition to almost as many spam messages that slide right on through the filters). As I scan these, I look for stories that we can assign to freelance writers, and wish for more community reporters to write about what is happening in their communities. Here's what 24 hours looks like:

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