Silent in the Morning

In this chapter, Brigg’s outlines the new fad known as collaborative publishing. He presents different ways in which journalist can utilize a variety of new tools on the web, in order to ease their interaction with their readers.

Some of these tools include:

Crowd sourcing: is a relatively new term, coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 article for Wired News. Think of crowdsourcing like outsourcing, the term from which it was born. The focus of crowdsourcing is usually ongoing production of information while distributed reporting relates more closely to a specific and fixed-time project, such as answering a specific question or reporting on a specific subject.

Open-source Reporting: is a form of transparency for a news organization. Traditionally, readers only learn about stories a news organization is working on when the articles are finished and published. While it is customary to keep a story idea secret to prevent the competition from running with the idea, the distributed reporting model requires a news organization to go public with a story idea early in the reporting process.

Pro-am Journalism: allows the audience to publish content onto the same website that professional journalist publish everyday news.