Digital Eye

Summary

The third chapter deals with new types of reporting methods and platforms that are more relevant and efficient in today’s fast-paced world.  Innovative ideas — such as open-source reporting and crowdsourcing – are explained to offer journalists improved credibility and resourcing.

Key Terms

• Pro-am Journalism- an extremely unfiltered form, this movement offers everyone interested an opportunity at journalism.
• Open-source reporting- gathering news in a transparent way, displaying your sources easily to the public.
• Crowdsourcing- idea of using a large number of sources to provide info for a story.

People outside of mainstream social media are now more important than ever to keeping the media from making mistakes and in providing more accurate news.

The idea of Pro-am journalism is important and helpful to the spreading of news today, and it allows new journalists more opportunities for success.

But this does not mean that, because you can be your own publisher, you can just put anything online. Be reliable and accurate, professionalism means responsibility.

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