I’m going to Austria to do a presentation on citizen journalism (among other topics to be covered), and after I return, I’ll have the presentation available for posting on the Web. If you’re interested, drop me a line and I’ll send you the link when it becomes available.

Certainly the peer review needs to be extensive. Your point is well taken – there are obviously degrees between ‘professional reporting’ and ‘citizen reporting’. I think of it as wild, unchecked, unsourced reporting by anyone with an email address but I suppose that’s a bit unfair :)

Sure, I’d love to take a look at what you’re working on.

I never believe what CNN says. What it said about wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is merely some fabricated stories. I’ll check other media if necessary.
Only bloody idiot will believe in CNN.

Well, someone could say that about Fox and we’d be back to the old partisan bickering. Better to stick to the topic.

Citizen journalism is always doomed to fail, just as citizen web design or citizen plumbing would fail, too.

I absolutely disagree, and there are plenty of examples out there to prove my contention, including the site for which I write and do research. But, there is plenty of room to foul up in citizen reporting, and the monitoring and peer review needs to be strict and extensive.

I’m going to Austria to do a presentation on citizen journalism (among other topics to be covered), and after I return, I’ll have the presentation available for posting on the Web. If you’re interested, drop me a line and I’ll send you the link when it becomes available.

Sure, there are folks from the blogosphere that gain notoriety but blogs and the internet are just a new medium so the people who get noticed are STILL those who do great work, great research, have great style, or otherwise have something to offer.

Of course, there are the occasional Cinderella stories and from time to time the blogging community makes a contribution to the media world (a useful one). But, the whole concept of citizen journalism seems flawed. When I tune into a media outlet I am looking for some kind professional standard to be met, and I’m skeptical enough about that happening with a big network to begin with!

(Ironically, I clearly didn’t take enough time to breathe and check my post before posting since I missed that typing error.)

Any and all journalism needs to be reviewed before it is posted as factual news. But Perez unfairly uses the issue of the erroneous Apple reporting to blast citizen journalism as a whole. Want some examples of erroneous professional journalism? Review the 2002 and 2003 articles by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon in the New York Times for some dead-wrong reporting that had even more impact than CNN’s blunder.

Josh, you’re right in that journalists in general need to “[t]ake some time to make sure we get the facts straight rather than rushing to be the first to publish a story,” but in the increasingly zero-sum world of journalistic competition, that will never happen.

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