Jay Rosen on Open Source Journalism

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On Monday, November 13th at 4:00 p.m. EST, Jay Rosen was at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to talk about Open Source journalism and his new project, www.newassignment.net

I interviewed him after his talk.

Open Source has worked in software, but can it work in journalism? Can it break news? Can it tell big important stories? Can the advantages of the bazaar come to the cathedral of investigative reporting? NewAssignment.Net will try to find out.

Here's the video of Jay's complete talk, produced by Colin Rhinesmith. Recently Rebecca MacKinnon spoke about starting a new media workshop in Hong Kong! You don't even have to be in Cambridge at Harvard to attend these sessions... You can even watch in Second Life...

It's cool that the Berkman Center at Harvard is inviting the world into these sessions... Previous sessions are archived over at Media Berkman.

This video was recorded with an Nokia N93 cellphone and edited in QuickTime Pro. Credits were created in iMovie, exported and then pasted into QuickTime pro. The file was then exported as 640x480, 320x240 and .3gp for cell phones.

Featured on Rocketboom 11/27/06.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) 320x240 for iPod, Quicktime (.mov) 640x480, Third Generation Platform (.3gp)

Tags: steve garfield, jay rosen, newassignment.net, harvard, berkman, news, interview, journalism

Comments

[danielmcvicar]

Very nice interview...good sound. What did you use for the sound..the phone?

How did you set up the phone..a tripod? On a desk?

Questions for the master.

[danielmcvicar]

Also, to comment on the content, it seems when a wider web of contributors is invested in the truth of a story, and that is open source, a more balanced version of the story will evolve.

[steve garfield]

Hi Dan,
I used gaffers tape to attach the N93 to a Tota light stand.

The sound is from the N93.

--Steve