[There are about ten residents from each section of the city that are signed up to participate in the workshops to teach them reporting.] Not reporting as a professional journalist would, ... The idea is that people will be focused on their own neighborhoods. |
it's an open, evolving project. |
my hope is that this material would somehow make its way into the pages of the paper. That's one of the benefits of doing this kind of reporting. |
one contribution to a new phase of citizen journalism in which the tools of the web are used along with some old fashioned reporting tools to extend the domain of reporting in a much broader fashion, farther than civic journalism was able to do and sustain. |