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."

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What do you think?