Who Wants to Be a Journalist?

A recent New York Times article gave me a chance to discuss Citizen Journalism and what Reuters and Yahoo! News plan to do with it.

Citizen Journalism is a term for the opportunity we all have in the Internet age to post our own reports, commentary, photos and video without having to wait for the professional media to do it for us. Citizen journalism is a blogger describing a recent fire at the highrise condominium complex in my neighborhood. Citizen journalism is the UCLA student with a cellphone camera who got a video of a student being shot with a taser by a campus police officer. It's about us no longer being content to merely be consumers of news stories but producers of the stuff as well.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #11