City News Bureau of Chicago and how they could best cover the city. We are re-launching that bureau in the form of a course this fall. It will be taught by two remarkable journalism veterans. Paul Zimbrakos was the Managing Editor of the bureau for a number of years before it closed its doors and tutored many of the best journalists in the country. Jack Smith was the former CBS Bureau Chief in Chicago and Washington DC. Together they will make this class a rich learning lab and help students discover how best to cover a city and its inner-workings." City News Bureau of Chicago
Open-source journalism Open-source journalism Open-source journalism, a close cousin to citizen journalism or participatory journalism, is a term coined in the title of a 1999 article by Andrew Leonard of Salon.com. Although the term was not actually used in the body text of Leonard's article, the headline encapsulated a collaboration between users of the internet technology blog "Slashdot" and a writer for "Jane's Intelligence Review". The writer, Johan J. Ingles-le Nobel, had solicited feedback on a story about cyberterrorism from "Slashdot" readers, and then re-wrote his story based on that feedback and compensated the "Slashdot" writers whose information and words he used.