Resources
Cyberjournalist.net covers news and issues that concern online journalists.
Ireporter.org. Inspiring, guiding, and educating citizen journalists and the news organizations that work with them.
Center for Citizen Media. An initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.
Electronic Frontier Foundation. An organization that fights for your constitutional rights, in the online world. Check out the legal guide for bloggers.
Tools for Citizen Journalists
Handbook for bloggers and dissidents, by Reporters Without Borders. This link is contained within the Tools for Citizen Journalists page, but I like the handbook so well, I wanted to give it a link of its own.
Reporters Without Borders, USA
Newsvine. This is the citizen journalism thread on Newsvine.com.
AudioActivism. How to podcast from a phonebooth.
WWTW. The name says it all.
Online News Association. You have to become a member to use most of the features of this site.
Ourmedia.org has quite a few useful tutorials for CJ’s that will help you hone your journalism skills. Links dealing with research techniques, law, ethics, how to publish online. http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/topic/citizen-journalism
Poynter Institute. The people at Poynter have been making journalism better since 1975. The school puts on seminars intended to help professional journalists with writing, editing reporting and ethics. The web site contains quite a few useful tutorials as well. http://www.poynter.org
Investigative Reporters and Editors. They host seminars, and are an excellent resource for foia (and other investigative techniques) and for help with computer-assisted reporting. http://www.ire.org/