‘We’re not better off with citizen journalists’
Amalia Buckerfield, Sean Rintel and myself were on the negative team for UQ’s inagural Great Debate. The topic was “We are better off with citizen journalists”. We put in a solid effort, complete with props and a dance by Sean, but lost out to Carl Smith, John Cook and Liam Pomfret on the affirmative team.
On the flood round for Demotix
Citizen journalism is liberating, but I haven’t yet managed to make it pay.
Social media drives flood site
FloodAid demonstrates the strengths of social media and crowdsourcing
Street price: a weed story
A clever website is using crowd sourcing to tell an otherwise tricky commodities story
