citizen journalism

Join Digg CEO, Matt Williams, in SXSW (March 14th 12:30pm) as he discusses how news is being affected by citizen journalism, wisdom of the crowds, social networks, and interest-based communities.

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We were recently talking about some of the strawmen complaints that some (though, certainly not all) journalists put up in protesting the idea of "citizen" journalism (which should, more accurately, be called participatory journalism).

One of the bigger strawmen is this idea that people think that amateur journalists mean that professional journalists aren't needed.

There may be someone out there who does believe it, but most supporters of participatory journalism believe the two work together quite well.

While we still hear some traditional journalists whining and complaining about the dying journalism field, it's really exciting to see those who aren't paying attention to that working hard on reinventing journalism in a way that works.

The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leadi

MySpace, Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum have announced their second annual contest to send a citizen journalist to

A little over a month ago, we reviewed the NPR News iPhone App.