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This guide was written by Annie Shreffler, a former producer for WNYC now residing in Boston, MA. It was edited by John Keefe, Senior Executive Producer of News at WNYC Radio. Your Uncommon Economic Indicators is part of The Brian Lehrer Show [brianlehrershow (at) wnyc.org].
Members of the Public Radio Program Directors organization can view our webinar on crowdsourcing and our mapping tool.
Other Crowdsourcing projects at WNYC
How Many SUV’s on Your Block? (8/2007) An early experiment on getting the audience to work with us.
30 Issues in 30 Days, Covering listener-suggested political issues before the elections
Are You Being Gouged? A look at the price of milk across New York City
Halted Development, a look at unsold or undeveloped properties in the NYC metro area
10 Questions That Count the Brian Lehrer Show’s Census Project
Help Wanted the Brian Lehrer Show’s Facebook forum on the Job Market
Tips and Advice
Knight Digital Media Center tutorials: Picking the Right Media
8 Things to Avoid When Building a Community
PBS Idea Lab: Breaking through Phase 2
Communicate about your project: Lessons in blogging from the Flu Portal team
Enforcing Rules: The Crowdsourced Community by Richard Becker
Five ways to get people to contribute good content to your site by Mallary Jean Tenore
Examples and Articles
National Weather Service recruits the crowd for reporting. (January 6, 2009)
From the Katine blog (Guardian) Crowdsourcing: When Reporters Meet Readers by Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
Openness, Collaboration Key to New Information Ecosystem by Guardian EIC Alan Rusbridger on Poynter.org
Crowdsourcing or Community Production: An Interview with Hugh McGuire from Librivox, by Austin Hill
Harnessing Social Media by Stephanie Gleason of the American Journalism Review
The Freedom to Fail and the Need to Experiment: What gives a citizen journalism project a chance to work by Megan Garber (Video and transcript of conversation between Minnesota Public Radio’s Linda Fantin and the Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller)
Productive Crowdsourcing Requires Community Management by Geoff Livingston
Crowdsourcing Crime Information in Kenya by Juliana Rotich for PBS Idea Lab
Choosing the right tool for the job: Why Crowdsourcing is No Magic Bullet, by James Seddon
NYU’s Jay Rosen The People Formerly Known as the Audience (June 27, 2006) and a new video of his talk at TEDxNYED in April 2010.
Clay Shirkey’s ongoing analysis, blog style, of citizen journalism. Here Comes Everybody and a December 2008 video of his interview with Brian Lehrer about the book.
OffTheBus editor Amada Michel’s reflection Get Off The Bus: The Future of Pro-Am Journalism
Wired’s Jeff Howe defines crowdsourcing, adds a video on Picking the Right Crowd, ( Dec. 2, 2009) and blogs as a companion to his book on Crowdsourcing
Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics (2005 TED Talk)
Can Crowd-Source Mapping Change Government Policy? by Sam J. Miller, an organizer with Picture the Homeless
Four Real Challenges to Crowdsourcing for Social Good by Geoff Livingston
