Peter's slightly disingenuous response is that they are not in competition as they began in different journalistic fields.
The Action Researcher noted that each forum held action planning workshops when local people watched a video made by community researchers in which interview results were presented by them using a journalistic 'in-field' style.
Nine years on, Ushahidi the company has upgraded the application to make it more powerful for clients, many of whom are in humanitarian, journalistic, or political fields.
The field of journalistic ethics can get ridiculously Talmudic.
On a journalistic level, the new playing field is more even.
"Blogging has been around for over 10 years now, and today some of the owners of those domains and channels are highly educated in their field and work on journalistic levels," he says.
It had been my purpose in setting out, or perhaps I should say my thought, to look at, but not exactly to examine, in the journalistic sense of the word, what is going on in the field, or fields — they are quite separate — of book and magazine publishing over there.
This has proven so effective that in some fields (e.g. string theory) the journalistic review process is avoided altogether, and papers are not submitted to journals.
Bryant fielded questions that ran the full gamut of journalistic approaches: provocative ("Do you think you will ever play again?" "I hope so")., banal ("What do you think about your new shoes?" "I love them")., softball ("How has the league changed most since you arrived in it?" "The global impact. When [Stern] came on, in 1984, I was six, living in Italy.
