Are reporters doomed? Citizen journalism is here to stay. But in the rush to embrace new media we risk destroying the soul of traditional reporting.(The Digital Transfromation)

From: Nieman Reports | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

I was dismayed to read Roy Greenslade's recent blog about the rise of citizen journalists. "Journalistic skills are not entirely wiped out in an online world, but they are eroded and, most importantly, they cannot be confined any longer to an exclusive elite group," he wrote.

As a result, media companies of the future will require fewer staff, and their job will be to process materials from freelancers, bloggers and citizen journalists. Greenslade continued--and this is the scary part: "It is also clear that media outlets will never generate the kind of income enjoyed by ...

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