Quote of the day
Via PaidContent.org from The Huffington Post comes this statement from Chris Ahearn, president of Reuters Media, in explaining $100,000 in grants to Jay Rosen’s citizen journalist project, NewAssignment.net.
“While encouraging good journalistic ideas is a worthy goal in itself, Reuters believes that supporting new and varied networks of creators with different perspectives is good for both journalism and business.”
So here we have big media funding this remarkable citizen journalist idea, and who’d have ever thought this possible a year ago?
Jay Rosen is brilliant, IMO, and this project bears watching.
September 21st, 2006 at 10:04 am
But I believe this grant money is earmarked to fund the salary of an editor that will be culled from the ranks of the official jounalistic community. Funding for the citizen part of the project, I believe, will come from another source.
So, essentially, Reuters will be funding old media’s participation in new media.
Jay *is* brilliant though…and the whole project stands to be a good shot in the arm to investigative journalism
September 21st, 2006 at 4:30 pm
I understand Tish. I was going for irony.