J-Source

Reframing citizen journalism and crowdsourcing news

“One reason mainstream news organizations haven’t embraced the concepts may be that the spirit (if not the letter) of the cit-j discussion tends to focus on the people involved rather than the news being covered. That is, the tonal takeaway is often something like “Who needs professional journalists? Throw the useless bums out of their…

“One reason mainstream news organizations haven’t embraced the concepts
may be that the spirit (if not the letter) of the cit-j discussion
tends to focus on the people involved rather than the news being
covered. That is, the tonal takeaway is often something like “Who needs
professional journalists? Throw the useless bums out of their tower!””

“One reason mainstream news organizations haven’t embraced the concepts
may be that the spirit (if not the letter) of the cit-j discussion
tends to focus on the people involved rather than the news being
covered. That is, the tonal takeaway is often something like “Who needs
professional journalists? Throw the useless bums out of their tower!””

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