Is traditional journalism long gone?
Has citizen journalism really taken over?
Or...is society seeing an emergence of an active partnership between the two?
After listening to a presentation in class today, I think the latter definitely prevails.
Take the London bombings for example, the first vision actually used came from a member of the community who recorded the event as it unfolded! And they say pictures tell a story! This noble citizen definitely helped tell this one. The vision was immediately uploaded on the BBC news website and the journalists were straight onto it to unveil the rest of the story.
Citizen journalism and professional journalist need to co-exist for news to unfold. Professional journalism cannot occur without citizen journalism and I look foward to working in the media, alongside other journalists, but of course with the help of the rest of the community.
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