“We the media: grassroots journalism by the people, for the people”- Dan Gillmor Chapter 1

Covers the changing nature of journalism, the slow shift towards grassroots or citizen journalism, and the impact of the internet.
Details how journalists roles and methods have changed from about the 1800s.
Mentions the corporate interests in journalism.
Gives examples of the evolving nature of the business (small self published newspapers, Winer’s email magazine, Usenet)
Quotes the Cluetrain manifesto as an explanation for why the internet is important.

His argument is that grassroots journalism was largely sparked by the ease of communication and self-publishing that is possible through the internet.
It’s strengths lie in it’s detail and the article presents a good point. It’s got a lot of information so it’d be good for quoting.
However, the author goes into a needlessly high amount of detail on every point for almost no purpose (spends 2 paragraphs talking about how website development in the early 90s worked).
The chapter focuses on internet journalism and mentions some of the topics we’ve looked at in class.
I don’t think there’s really going to be any book that disagrees with the chapter, because it’s hard to argue that the internet didn’t impact on journalism.