If citizen journalism predated the internet, it was the internet that ushered in its heyday, giving everyone who wanted it the opportunity to gather information, express ideas and publish the ...

Reddit fits that paradigm: The scope of its citizen journalism has improved as it’s grown in size. Redditors have been acting as citizen journalists for a long time, in fact, well under the nose ...

Morgan Jones’s coverage of the Aurora, Co. shooting seems to have begun a trend. Kevin Morris Updated on June 2 2021 1:20 pm CDT ...

In the first of a semi-regular series, here are six pieces from around the web worth spending time with: 1. Why journalists love Reddit for its brain, not just its beauty (GigaOm) “These days ...

Many commentators say Reddit's coverage exemplifies a new breed of journalism, though some, like CNN 's Howard Kurtz, criticized the timeline as error-ridden.

Indeed, nobody likes the term ‘citizen journalism'. Some find the very notion that non-professionals could be labelled ‘journalists' offensive and favour ‘witness contributors'.

Citizen journalism is a fast-growing worldwide phenomenon. ‘We are all journalists now,’ boast the twitters and bloggers who – thanks to the internet – can talk to the world as reporter ...

In theory, crowdsourced “citizen journalism” is a good idea. After all, all it really takes to be a journalist is certain critical-thinking skills and/or access to information that other ...

But citizen journalism dead? It’s barely out of infancy. Support high-integrity, independent journalism that serves democracy. Make a gift to Poynter today.

Wired on Friday: A pioneering example of citizen journalism, the notion that ordinary people can take part in the news-gathering… John Gapper Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00 ...

We don’t really know how “citizen journalism” will turn out, though as I noted in an item earlier today, a growing number of entrepreneurs and traditional news organizations are giving it a try.