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https://therapidian.org/tips Tips for producing a good story

As a reporter, your testimony is not an important part of the story. It’s your job to talk to other people and collect information from them.

These people are called witnesses or sources. As such, your story should not be told from a first-person perspective.

Using testimony from two to four sources is standard. However, creating a news story is not a competition in how many sources you have.

Quoting any more than four different sources in a story make it feel crowded and confusing.

https://www.journalism.co.uk/ A report on citizen journalism has concluded that the form is most successful when it covers stories

not being reported by the mainstream media.

https://medium.com Citizen Journalism 101 - With fake news and misinformation at an all-time high, here’s how you can step up

— and hold our leaders accountable

https://ijnet.org/ Citizen Matters: A successful model for a citizen journalism news site

https://www.theguardian.com/ citizen journalists revealed the value of an undeniable video

https://www.freepressunlimited.org/ Free Press Unlimited supports the project and trains participants in citizen journalism.

Many citizen journalists have been trained in collecting and reporting local stories ...

Citizen journalists exchange important information by mobile telephone, video and social media.

The media-industry is small. Apart from state television it consists of a limited number of radio stations and newspapers.

http://mediashift.org/ The Power of Citizen Journalists in Remote, Underserved ...Communities

"With their knowledge of local issues and the training to spot and develop a good story, these citizens can also be a valuable resource

for urban-based media houses looking to expand their coverage."

https://thecitizenscampaign.org / The Citizens Campaign can help you learn how.

We have taught hundreds of citizens the skills they can use to cover the news in their communities.

Much of traditional media no longer has the resources to report local news so citizens can play an important role in getting the word out

about the issues their towns and cities face and the pragmatic solutions that are available to address them.

http://www.niemanlab.org/ tips for citizen journalism from ProPublica’s new “crowdsorcerer”

the non-profit investigative journalism outfit ProPublica “editor reporting.” the future of news gathering, citizen-journalism effort

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