Handbook

Bullet points:

This book is for everyone who wants to become a contemporary journalist. Today there is no more passive reading, listening or watching of the news. We comment, tweet, blog, re-mix, and make video responses. We live in a world of plenty, where the traditional media gate-keepers were born in scarcity. We are in a world of transition where the "people formerly known as the audience", which means all of us, are becoming the producers.

The book invites you to be a dynamic part of this citizen media revolution. Here you can learn how to produce your own rapid-turnaround and high-quality video news, using only the tools in your pocket. And you can learn the story-telling skills you need to compete for eyeballs with the traditional media.

Almost everyone has the tools: smart phone, digital stills camera, or just an internet connection.

You'll find here clear and easy templates for video news reports which can be made by absolute beginners, or by people with skills but little time.

The book also shows you how to shoot your message through the gates of the traditional media, the media born of the printing press and the cathode ray tube.

Contemporary media is a flow. Don't stand alone. Join the crew!

- Don't stand alone (defines who you are) This book brings you in contemporary flow

- Give you the skills: it's a easy to understand templates diluting year of experience into bullet points. take you through 5 key steps from the tools

- contemporary media isn't just on line

Timeline:

Chapterise the handbook, adding the missing chapers, changing names of actual one possibly. Write an outline of what the book is about Writing the introduction

then: add this missing chapters as boxes add the templates Send funding applications publish on line this version of the book

Make a cartoon cover and new templates.

Outline

Citizen Media Handbook - Introduction

chapter1

Citizen Media Handbook - Chapter 1 - Time to Hack the Media

Time to hack the media #

(Using the media) Chapter1You are the media - Be the media What's wrong with the mainstream. why should do your own media? what's different from corporate CJ (beware of the trap)? You're not a CJ you are a contemporary journalist. You can write the "story" now, write it for everybody.

Why the templates are essential?

What's news (need to be defined) What's the story? And what isn't? How do you tell it? Applies equally to all the templates.

chapter2

Citizen Media Handbook - Chapter 2 - Who's the media now?

Who's the media now? #

Definition of Contemporary media / traditional media

Making news is hard A story for whom? Tension between CJ / hyper-local Hyper-local should always be made for every next door neighbour of the world. Tension between looking for stories

To introduce the templates and the rational if they don't use the templates they will fail.

Chapter3

Citizen Media Handbook - Chapter 3 - Don't Stand Alone - Am thinking we should move this one to later on in the book....