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Five minutes with Peter Shankman of HelpAReporterOut.com

March 21, 2008 – 6:48 pm

I asked Peter Shankman a few easy questions today about his Help A Reporter Out project.
You can listen in or download the mp3 below.
(I recorded the call with cinch.blogtalkradio.com, for those of you keeping score at home.)

 
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ReportingOn 0.2: Connect with Twitter

January 14, 2008 – 8:01 pm

From the message I sent to members of the What Are You Reporting On? Facebook group yesterday:
The initial, humble little piece of integration with Twitter is live now at www.reportingon.com.
If you look at the right side of the page there, you’ll see a list of all the recent tweets sent to @reportingon. If you [...]

Howard Owens will give you $100 to get with the program

December 27, 2007 – 4:56 pm

That’s right, if you’re an ink-stained, hard-nosed reporter who thinks all this New Media stuff is bunk, Boss Owens has a hundred Amazon bucks with your name on ‘em.
If you perform a few small tasks, of course.
Like, start reading blogs, get a blog, start writing, shoot some stills and video, upload them, join a social [...]

Citizen journalist killed in Iraq

December 15, 2007 – 10:03 pm

{ Those of us that were in the room during the ‘Video’ session at the Networked Journalism conference in October remember witnessing Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad basically make a plea to anyone from the numerous large, profitable news organizations at the conference to help out the cause of citizen journalism in Iraq with [...]

Twitter hints for reporters

December 13, 2007 – 8:20 pm

I saw a message on Twitter from Dave Cohn yesterday late in the afternoon that said he was set to interview Craig Newmark in 30 minutes. (Actually, I saw it 19 minutes after he posted it, so he was probably on the way out the door if not on the street when I replied.)
Today, Dave [...]