Richard MacManus has a good primer of citizen journalism on the Web in his first installment of "That State of Citizen Journalism."

Research offering insights into measuring how people are changing their communication habits and journalism preferences from the Missouri School of Journalism.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism and its fascinating update on news media today.

Will the journalism of the future take the form of advocacy? Here's an innovative project that links journalists and scholars studying the world's most valuable resource: Water. It combines original reporting with social networking to reach a global audience.

Thanks to the Poynter's Biz Blog, I found this link to an interesting take on the newspaper industry by Wired editor Chris Anderson. Perhaps we need to reconceptualize the notion of newspapers as a "dying industry."

The Encyclopedia project was dreamed up by North Minneapolis residents who recognized a communication gap between valuable resources and community members seeking those resources. The goal of the Encyclopedia project is to bridge that gap through the use of an accessible and editable website to serve as an information hub in order to connect those community members to the resources that they need. The project is a completely non-profit venture. The project is completely maintained by volunteer hours and the only possible future cost would be to host the website. The project is not the property of any one organization, but is made possible through the partnership and collaboration of numerous non-profits and individual community members.

This project is an interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Davis — especially the little, enjoyable things. This entire site is maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!

"NewsTrust.net helps people find good journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. We're a nonprofit organization, and our free website offers quality information filters, news literacy tools and a civic engagement network. We publish a daily feed of quality news and opinions from trusted mainstream and independent sources, based on ratings from our reviewers. Our review tools enable the public to rate the news based on journalistic quality, not just popularity -- by evaluating fairness, evidence, sourcing and other core principles of journalism. NewsTrust's Executive Director is Fabrice Florin, a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. Our team includes talented journalists, technologists and community organizers, and our advisors include Dan Gillmor, Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold and other digital media innovators from organizations like the Associated Press, Craigslist, Google, the Poynter Institute and Stanford University."