Bob McCarty Writes

As a journalism school graduate who spent much of the past quarter-century working closely with those in the Fourth Estate, I’m fascinated with the opportunities afforded ordinary citizens by new media and technology. That in mind, I read several articles today on what’s being called “citizen journalism” and surprised myself with what I found.

Topics ranged from governments that fear citizen journalists (see the IDG News Service article about a new French law that prohibits ordinary citizens from reporting on acts of violence) to large newspapers — that is, the newly revamped USAToday.com — denying any embrace of citizen journalism by telling AdAge.com saying, “The idea is for its reporters to learn from readers and then do the journalism itself professionally.”

I even found CyberJournalist.net, a web site that’s attempting to keep up with the explosive growth of what it terms “citizen media initiatives.”

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