Online Community Journalism

Here's a site that offers helpful information to "journalists, educators, students and citizen journalists" interested in covering virtual communities.

Welcome! This site is intended to clear the noise and get back to the basics of journalism.

We’re all members of multiple communities. They look familiar and easy to understand. But communities run deeper than we might think. So, why bother with this site?

If you understand a community's layers, and you’re willing to explore them, you’ll find stories that ring true. If you know how to find the leaders in a community and can ask better questions, you’ll be more effective and efficient.

Log in to Covering Communities to access its modules on interviewing, framing, even blogging and "third places."