We usually associate smartphones in news reporting with citizen journalism, not full-time journalists.
But can they survive in a world of citizen journalism, Twitter and Wikileaks?
Both sites are very much next-generation content plays, fusing traditional journalism, citizen journalism, technology and social media.
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Newstweek is the reductio ad absurdum version of citizen journalism, in which everyone is an autonomous news organization.
And of course, we recognize that not all citizen journalism happens on iReport.
And how about CNN's experiment with citizen journalism, which allows anonymous readers to submit news reports that can move markets?
Ushahidi grew out of a citizen journalism effort Okolloh helped lead during the deadly postelection rioting in Kenya last January.
However, Bill Thompson, a technology journalist, said the move to citizen journalism didn't necessarily spell the end of the professional.
Watch as McGregor gives his first TED talk on citizen journalism and teaching reporting skills as a way of job creation.
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They are concentrating on material of national interest, such as elections, news sites and citizen journalism or innovative uses of the web.
Before discovering citizen journalism, she was a less active person, simply going to school to teach and then coming home, she said.
Finally, perhaps the most advanced form of citizen journalism is where a community of users works together to make an alternative news website.
In Sweden, he points to a rural newspaper that has opened up its newsroom to citizen journalism in a way Britain has not.
Third on the poll was the rise of citizen journalism since Sept. 11, 2001, which set the Web alight with opinion and amateur video.
Its citizen journalism site Your Anon News takes its name from the group's social media news feeds and aims to collect breaking reports and blogs.
Citizen journalism won't replace the professionals, at least I hope not.
This year, for the first time, we will also honor some of the standout citizen journalism and participatory storytelling that happened elsewhere on the Web in 2012.
And so with support from the International Center for Journalists, with whom he is a Knight International Journalism Fellow, Choudhary began an experiment in citizen journalism.
Such citizen journalism is in some cases happening almost accidentally, said Susan Jacobson, an assistant professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who researches the impact of technology on journalism.
He said that he was also concerned that citizen journalism was only representing the young, web-savvy community of Iran, and that the older generation, with perhaps different views, are being drowned out.
The library already has received about 400 requests from researchers all over the world looking into topics ranging from the rise of citizen journalism to tracking vaccination rates to predicting stock market activity.
The first picture of the crash was posted to TwitPic, and was picked up by more traditional media outlets - sparking the widely-quoted notion that Twitter is the poster child for a new era of citizen journalism.
Permitting only those with a degree in journalism to work in the media, the law would further limit citizen journalism and the freedom of expression of small and remote indigenous communities, according to the Network of Popular and Educational Radios in Ecuador (Corape).
Citizen journalism is nothing new.
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Hers is the kind of citizen's journalism that we will see more of in this Internet era.
At the same time, more journalism is being done by bloggers and citizen journalists.
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