Richard Sambrook, the Director of Global News at the BBC, has
written about citizen journalism in the first of this week's guest
blogger entries on http://www.cybersoc.com


Sambrook divides "citizen journalism" into four categories:

1. The use of eyewitness accounts, pictures and video.

2. The integration of user comment or blogs into news coverage.

3. News broken on the web.

4. Using the public to develop and inform our journalism.

In his post, Sambrook argues that although the news landscape has
changed, there is still an important role for known media brands
which are, he says, still very good at:

* verification (testing rumour and clearing fog)
* explanation (context and background)
* analysis (a Google search won't provide judgement)

Sambrook says that "journalists still have the resources to go
places and uncover things that might otherwise remain hidden.
Citizens can do all of those things, but not consistently, and with
even less accountability than the media."

Full post at http://www.cybersoc.com/2006/03/guest_blogger_r.html