Jan Schaffer former Business Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner for the Philadephia Inquireer, is the executive director of J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism an one of the most influential authors following the current transition process from old fashion journalism to the new media. J-Lab was launched in 2002 in the University of Maryland's College of Journalism to help newsrooms use innovative computer technologies to inform people about important public issues. In this study Schaffer, who also promote J-Lab's New Voices project, assets citizen journalism is emerging as a form of bridge media, linking traditional forms of journalism with classic civil participation. This study edited by Knight Citizen News network, analyses hyperlocal community new sties, a new phenomenon that is changing and growing rapidly. In Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News? (2007), Schaffer sustains that "...The pioneers did not intend simply to experiment with new forms of journalism or give-and-take between citizens and journalists. Most site operators believe they are engaged in a new kind of community building, a kind of antidote to the “bowling alone” phenomenon".
The author gives examples of Citizen Media Models for analyze. Go to the websites and check components of interactivity, content, useful news, type of community generated, and, the most important: similarities and differences in their projects:
Community Cooperatives
Professional Journalists For-profit Sites
Blog Aggregator Sites
Syndicated Milti-site Models
Legacy Media Sites
Solo Enterprise Non-profit Sites
Solo Enterprise for For-profit Sites
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