I've republished this post to give credit to right folks (as per comments). The snippet below is from the paper, We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information, was written by Shayne Bowman, and Chris Willis for The Media Center at API (American Press Institute):
Voice and personality are also key hallmarks of participatory media. Several observers have argued that the informal style found in many participatory forms free the writer from the "official voice" of the media company, and that makes for better storytelling. The official voice of journalism is usually formal, often drained of color and attitude, and written as an objective and balanced account. In contrast, weblogs and discussion groups thrive on their vivid writing, controversial points of view and personality-rich nature — traits that many readers find compelling.
Columnist J.D. Lasica goes so far as to argue that newspaper webloggers should not be subject to the newsroom's routine editing filter. On his weblog he called for a form of Editing Lite: "Perhaps the chief appeal and attraction of weblogs are their free-form, unfiltered nature. You get to hear people in their natural dialect, writing from their gut with a voice and tone that too often can be filtered into a homogenous blandness after passing through the typical newsroom's editing machine. A lightly edited, hands-off weblog would show journalists as human beings with opinions, emotions and personal lives."12
You are not quoting Dan Gillmor's book. You are quoting a paper that I co-wrote called, "We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information." This paper was written by myself, Shayne Bowman, and Chris Willis for The Media Center at API (American Press Institute).
Posted by: Shayne Bowman | April 30, 2005 at 04:53 PM
I let Shayne know that I'd fix the error - uh, maybe we citizen journalists can get a tad hasty with the publish button. Thank god for fact-checkers. He was very gracious. This is a very good paper in its entirety btw.
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