CitJ site now shares portion of revenue to its citizen journalists
Posted by Carolyn Lo on April 25, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Digital Journal has relaunched its citizen journalism site, where regular contributors are now eligible for a share of the "moneypot," an initiative comprised of advertising revenue.Being the first online community to share a portion of revenue to users distinguishes Digital Journal from competitors such as Newsvine and Norg.
The initiative applies to news stories instead of blogs, journals, groups, photos or video. Also, rather than the popularity of individual posts, the initiative calculates the number of news stories uploaded by each citizen journalists.
That system is interesting since it could encourage quantity instead of quality, but the Digital Journal board must approve the work of each citizen journalist who wants to be paid, in order to check spelling and grammar, as well as to judge the journalist's ability to "find and research relevant news," according to Journalism.co.uk.
The site has reportedly doled out $38,000 to citizen journalists.
Source: Journalism.co.uk
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<b>Newsvine</b> and <b>Norg</b>.<b></b><br /><br />The initiative applies to news stories instead of blogs, journals, groups, photos or video. Also, rather than the popularity of individual posts, the initiative calculates the number of news stories uploaded by each citizen journalists. <br /><br />That system is interesting since it could encourage quantity instead of quality, but the Digital Journal board must approve the work of each citizen
journalist who wants to be paid, in order to check spelling and
grammar, as well as to judge the journalist's ability to "find and
research relevant news," according to <b>Journalism.co.uk. </b><br /> <br />The site has reportedly doled out $38,000 to citizen journalists.<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/04/24/digital-journal-launches-revenue-sharing-for-its-citizen-journalists/">Journalism.co.uk</a><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div>&title=CitJ site now shares portion of revenue to its citizen journalists){kind=link}
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