Sites and blogs - international
Dan Gillmor is the guru of citizen or grassroots journalism, author of “We, the Media�, director of the Centre for Citizen Media, Universit of California-Berkeley.
Online Journalism Review, published by the Annenberg Centre for Communications at USC if full of debate and discussion about topics in online journalism, from ethics to making it pay.
JD Lasica’s socialmedia.biz is a lively blog by a well-known citizen media activist. See also his Ormedia.org, a grassroots journalism initiative.
Jeff Jarvis was a TV critic and now works with the NY Times company on their new media, so he follows what different sites and blogs are doing in great detail, debating their virtues on his BuzzMachine site.
Newsbusters is a right-wing blog dedicated to exposing and challenging what it sees as the liberal bias in US media. Take it for what it is. It includes a daily cartoon strip on the liberal media. Another (there are no shortage of these) with some interesting observations is Bob Kohn’s Media Watch.
For newspaper designers, the most useful resource is Newseum’s daily collection of front pages from hundreds of newspapers around the world. Particularly fascinating on days of big global news.
If you want to overdose, cyberjournalist.net runs a huge list of individual journalists’ blogs, literally hundreds of them.