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Pics by Tino KreutzerDan Gillmor, author of We Media and acclaimed citizen media advocate, was in Cape Town to speak at the University of Cape Town's Business School about the publishing revolution of the digital age, also known as Citizen Media. Gillmor is co-founder of Dopplr, a social networking service ...

I've never liked the word convergence. Integration is much better. Some great speakers spoke on this topic from the New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax) and The Telegraph (UK). This is about the PRODUCTION of news. And why are media companies restructuring the production of news? Well it's really ...

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism website in Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.zaThe relentless pace of technology is turning everyone into citizen reporters. Anyone with a cellphone camera is a potential citizen photographer. Anyone with a blog is a potential citizen reporter or columnist.   Citizen journalists both collaborate and compete with ...

Ok play is over. Need to do some business here. Conference is tomorrow where I'll be chatting about online journalism vs traditional journalism.This is often how today's changing media world is portrayed:1. online journ VS print journ; online newspapers VS newspapers ; ...

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism offering via Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.zaOne of the first images of the Asian Tsunami crisis came from a Nordic tourist stuck on a rooftop in Phuket who MMSed it to a major news website, where it was immediately published. During the London ...