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Citizen Journalism: Back to the Future?
Clyde H. Bentley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Commissioned by
The Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education
Clyde Bentley examines the concept of citizen journalism; from the dusty cave-dweller beginnings to Facebook to what the future holds for newsroom journalists.
“Citizen journalism is no more a replacement for professional journalism than teabags are a replacement for water. Both can stand comfortably alone, but when combined they produce something quite wonderful.”
Comments
Nice analyzed work! In my country there’ar attempts to reorganize “citizen journalist”, but we encountered some problems. May be here we can get some picies of advice. The problem is that, even at the university, the term “journalist” do not conclude economic or political journalist for instance. Universities educate to main theories and concepts, but when students apply for work, they’re just limited with the information and techniques while writing bisuness article, for instance. Thus, there’s no definitions and profession like “business journalis”, “political journalis”. There’s just journalist, that sounds too broad. How do you think?