Public Journalism Network talks to the project leader of citizen journalism web site Northfield.org, raising the question of whether local news media should provide blogger space for civic leaders.
According to PJNet, Griff Wigley "cautioned that successful bloggers feel a direct connection and responsibility to their readers that might be difficult to recreate if the blog were part of a news organization site."
Donica H. Mensing, writing for PJNet, asks:
Do news organization have a role in sponsoring community weblogs such as this one, completely separate from a main news site? Encouraging community leaders to blog? Sponsoring server space or providing training? If news organizations claim a role in democracy, then couldn't facilitating citizen discourse, fact gathering and reporting, such as found on Northfield.org, be a natural expression of journalism?
Northfield.org's effort goes beyond the citizen journalism projects that some MSM have launched in recent months, working directly with civic leaders to help them set up blogs. Then, as Mensing notes, the latest headlines from those civic leaders' blogs are displayed via RSS on the Northfield.org home page.
The bloggers include two planning commission members, a school board member, a state house representative, a county commissioner, a city councilman and a police chief. All but the state house rep and the police chief have comments enabled on the blogs. Ray Cox, the state house rep, sure likes to post lots of photos of himself, including one that's a photo of a photo.
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