Newspaper challenged by an amateur blogger

Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza believes it helps to build an open society by providing platforms for debates and inspiring readers concerned with a common good. Sometimes readers take an opportunity and start competing with their own newspaper. Read more

iReport: So everybody can be journalist now?

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the teen’s motives after the article on CNN’s iReport.com sent Apple shares down as much as 5.4 percent and cut Apple’s market value by at least $4.8 billion on Oct. 3, Bloomberg reports. Read more

YouTube: break down the barriers to entry to traditional journalism

“YouTube’s journalism programme could provide a collaborative solution to the decline in traditional foreign correspondents,” says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube. Read more

Imagine that you launch your newspaper from scratch

Two editors from two generations were asked the same question: 79-years-old Francois Regis Hutin, CEO of Ouest-France, a regional daily newspaper in France, and Kevin Anderson, blogs editor at the UK nation-wide daily The Guardian, who is almost 50 years younger. Read more

How we got 141,665 photos from readers

How many photo reporters can you assign to make a portrait of your country? 1? 2? 5? 10? 50? What about 25 thousand? It is possible, we have done it, writes Grzegorz Piechota of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza. Read more

Kids play when producing a real newspaper

Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet helps youngsters make their own newspapers with an online editorial system. It is the only offer of this kind in the world, writes Henrik Schou of the Danish daily. Read more

Get rid off all the editors

Do we need them any more in the digital age? Of course, no! Everybody hates editors and would feel a relief if they all go to hell.

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Stickers against Chinese policy

This campaign was invented and run by readers themselves. They gave an idea to newspaper’s editors, sent content and created a community.

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Where are you, father?

Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza started a serious debate about the absence of the father, his disappearance from family life, his atrophying ties with his own children. It started with a poll.
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Letter to the Father

Writing letters to fathers served as a national therapy for Poles. What a burden people bear, as they write to the newspaper: ”Thank you for the oppportunity to make a confession”?
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