Citizen journalists gets a tough rap. We have been called “nothing more than witnesses”, “a threat to the profession” and “idiots with cameraphones”, to name but a few. Put succinctly, not everyone seems to respect the evolving culture of what this genre could do, and has done, for the future of journalism as a whole.
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Time to stand up and be counted
March 29th, 2010
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Breaking up the news jigsaw
October 26th, 2009
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New-media-based citizen journalism has been everywhere recently. From the Guardian’s troubles with Trafigura to Jan Moir’s outrageous Daily Mail article on Stephen Gately; Twitterers, bloggers and citizen journalists worldwide have been making sure that their views are heard. And it wasn’t just the Alan Rusbridgers and the Stephen Frys of this world who were writing about what happened as [...]
