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Baru-baru ini, sebuah organisasi dan jaringan jurnalis internasional, Ijnet melalui situsnya memasukkan nama Kompasiana dalam jajaran tujuh media warga yang berhasil dan menjadi contoh dalam pengembangan jurnalisme warga dengan merangkul komunitas (warga).
Bersama dengan enam media warga lainnya seperti California Watch, CGNet Swara, The New York Times' Interactive Commenting, Tracking cicadas, ProPublica’s ‘Get Involved’, Storyful and the social web, Kompasiana dikatakan sebagai media inisiatif terbesar di Indonesia yang memiliki ratusan ribu kontributor (Kompasianer) dan menayangkan sekitar 800 artikel per hari, baik berupa laporan, opini atau bahkan karya fiksi.
Berikut saya tampilkan sebagian isi laporan tersebut:
....From surveys to crowdsourcing, news organizations around the world are learning how to engage citizens in newsgathering. Below are seven outstanding examples of news organizations and projects with community engagement at their core.
California Watch (now part of its founding organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting)....
CGNet Swara: Former ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow Shubhranshu Choudhary’s mobile news service CGnet Swara (Voice of Chhattisgarh) has transformed how people in remote areas of India receive and share news...
The New York Times' interactive commenting: When the Vatican announced a new Pope, Times readers who went to the paper’s story on the election of Pope Francis...
Tracking cicadas: WYNC’s data team paired up with the radio program Radiolab to build the Cicada Tracker, a project that used do-it-yourself soil monitors to predict the re-emergence of 17-year cicada swarms...
Kompasiana, a “social blog for the community”: Kompas, one of Indonesia’s largest newspapers, has cultivated a committed network of citizen journalists who post news, opinion and even works of fiction online. Since its launch in 2008, the citizen journalism site, Kompasiana, has become the largest citizen media initiative in Indonesia, with 200,000 contributors who collectively publish 800 articles daily on kompasiana.com. Read more about Kompasiana.
ProPublica’s ‘Get Involved’: To investigate 2012 political campaign spending in the U.S., the staff of ProPublica, a New York City-based nonprofit news organization that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, asked readers to help "Free the Files.”...