Citizen Journalism
This, apparently, is the new buzzword for a brand of new, non-corporate journalism that has blossomed over the last several years.
To quote Nicholas Lemann, in his recent article “AMATEUR HOUR: Journalism without journalists” (The New Yorker), “Citizen journalists are supposedly inspired amateurs who find out what’s going on in the places where they live and work, and who bring us a fuller, richer picture of the world than we get from familiar news organizations, while sparing us the pomposity and preening that journalists often display.”
What do you think?
31 Jul 2006 EWriter
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