Comments on: Journalism: Can any idiot do it? http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/17/journalism-can-any-idiot-do-it/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tish grier http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/17/journalism-can-any-idiot-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-810 tish grier Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:49:17 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=536#comment-810 Oddly...if you look at the participants who worked on completed stories for Assignment Zero, you'll find some active journalists, a retired journalist or two, some journalists-now-professors, some journalism students, some freelance journalists....but very, very few average schmoes. And, there was more to AZ than just producing articles. A great deal of community organizing, motivating, and communicating went into the project--far more than mentioned in the Wired article. Oddly...if you look at the participants who worked on completed stories for Assignment Zero, you'll find some active journalists, a retired journalist or two, some journalists-now-professors, some journalism students, some freelance journalists....but very, very few average schmoes.

And, there was more to AZ than just producing articles. A great deal of community organizing, motivating, and communicating went into the project--far more than mentioned in the Wired article.

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