citizen journalism

Freedom House is asking for proposals to implement a bi-lingual (Persian, aka Farsi, and English) website “portal” to promote citizen journalism.

NOWCast, a citizen journalism project, needs a good looking website with a powerful and flexible CMS.
The project is co-funded by the Knight Foundation and the Alamo Area Community Information System, under the auspices of the San Antonio area Foundation.
I've described some of the attributes we're looking for here: http://nowcastsa.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/choosing-digital-printing-press/
We would love to hear proposals immediately from developers who are enthusiastic about exploring new ways to build community and journalism.
Our launch target is Sept. 9.
Our budget is small.

Dear All,

It has been some time since we have launched Jaldibol.com - http://www.jaldibol.com - a Drupal site that is geared towards youth citizen journalism, local shopping deals, local events, etc.

We believe - we have overcome most of functionality issues and are going to take up design upliftment soon.

If you are a Drupal developer and wanted to test the site, you are welcome to do so and provide feedback here.

Roshan

Ifra, the international technical organization for newspapers, is sponsoring a three-day summit/workshop on citizen media 2-4 July at the Park Royal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. The official description follows:

For an upcoming citizen journalism project we need to set up a moderation procedure for stories that is not cumbersome. Moderation can be done in many ways in Drupal.

Can anyone suggest the best module combo that can do this?

TIA.

My name is Gus Austin. I'm a musician, self-taught web designer/developer, and relative newbie to Drupal.

I'm also part of the Morris Communications/Morris Digital Works burgeoning global empire. When I'm actually in the office, I'm just around the corner from Ken. I was a print journalist for decades in Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota before becoming the founding editor of Star Tribune Online (now startribune.com) in Minneapolis in the pre-Web era. I was executive editor of the nationwide Cox Interactive Media network before moving to Augusta and becoming a corporate toadie. BlufftonToday.com is my special baby.

I, too, am not a geek. :-) I taught myself C in the 1990s and PHP around the turn of the century. I've been running Linux since kernel 0.96. Once upon a time I recompiled the kernel with every alpha release, but I've gotten over that.

Above is a picture of Victoria (who Dale and mentioned in our Vancouver LOD October 2006 notes) so you can spot her at conferences. I bet she'll be explaining and talking about Now Public at lots of conferences about social media and citizen journalism, so keep an eye out for her!