Citizen Journalism

PRESSthink -
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/07/14/a_most_useful_d.html

A useful blog created by Jay Rosen that examines journalism and the need to prevent the absorbtion of the press into the mass media. Rosen suggests that "the press has become the ghost in the democracy machine" and lobbys against the commercialisation of journalism.

I have found his views on citizen journalism particularly interesting. Rosen defines this conecpt as "When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform many others of a newsworthy event, that’s citizen journalism.”