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‘Please don’t call it citizen journalism’

Michael Tippett

A short video interview with Michael Tippett, co-founder of the citizen media site NowPublic.com, in which he talks about how people engaging in grassroots media don’t consider themselves journalists.

“People who are sharing photographs and writing blogs and videos aren’t doing it because they are journalists. ... They are doing it because it is a natural human impulse to want to share your experiences.”
—Michael Tippett


Interviewer: J.D. Lasica
Length: 2 minutes
Capture device: Nokia N-93 camera phone
Download MPEG-4 video (4.7 MB)

Photos across top of page (from left to right) by Rob Milsom, Tom Magliery, Elaine Yeung, Stefan Jansson, Geren W. Mortensen, Jr., John Cumisky

 


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