The link above features a timeline between mainstream media, the shift to new media, and how it begins to become more user-friendly, beginning from 1969. Some of the most recent examples of citizen journalism include:
In 2003, BBC asked its audience to send in photos of the Iraq conflict. The outlet received hundreds of photos.
In 2008, the first report of NBC News journalist Tim Russert’s death was posted on Wikipedia rather than by the NBC network, which had held the story until Russert’s family had been contacted.
In June 2009 the "Neda" YouTube video of a young woman protester dying on the streets of Tehran spreads among social networks and traditional news organizations. User-generated crisis reporting becomes more common, and with it, more challenges for traditional media outlets on how to present it.
It is also around the early 2000s we see the shift to online media:
In 2002, More than 1,300 North American daily newspapers have launched online services. Worldwide, there are now more than 5,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online.
Around mid-2003, 150 million people in the United States went online (Two-thirds of whom used online media to recive news).
In 2009, a study from from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) 70 percent of journalists said they use social networks to assist in reporting (compared to 41 percent last year). In the same survey, 69 percent of respondents use company websites to assist in their reporting, 66 percent use blogs, 51 percent use Wikipedia, 48 percent go to online videos, and 47 percent use Twitter and other microblogging services.
Sooooo..... With the rapidly spreading popularity (and capabilities) of new media, social networking sites and user-generated information sites (ex: Wikipedia), are we opening new venues for citizen journalists to tell their story? If so, how does the mainstream media compete (or coexist) with these new expansions?
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