Writing mama as citizen journalist

Today Mothering Magazine editor Peggy O’Mara spoke about the “new health journalism” at the National Vaccine Information Center’s Fourth International Public Conference. She contrasted “industrial media” — most of which is owned by only 10 companies — with digital media. I like thinking of myself as one of many “citizen journalists,” a “participant observer” reporting on my own life. “My job as a mother is to challenge the status quo,” she said, to “develop my own personal ethic of mothering.” For me, writing about that development is part of that development, a necessary, for me, step further in challenging the status quo than if I just simply living it without writing or talking to people.

Posts on the information presented at the conference will appear on my other blogs, Crunchy-Chewy Mama and Inexact Science: Raising Healthy Families.