<![CDATA[Poynter Online – Journalism & Blogging: It’s About Diversity:
Inspired by Poynter’s recent Web + 10 seminar, I’ve been wondering how media organizations could use community-based or grassroots journalism to build audience. I’ve been asking myself and others: Whose stories are untold using conventional reporting methods? Whose voices are we leaving out of traditional newspapers and newscasts? Who feels alienated by media coverage of their lives?
The news of small communities has never been easily distributed or discovered outside those communities. I’m not sure that many folks are really feeling all that alienated by the fact their parish politics or neighborhood disputes aren’t covered by newspapers or local TV.]]>