The line is really starting to become blurry between reporting done by professional journalists and what is being done by citizen journalists. Thanks to social networking essentially everyone could be a citizen journalist, but are their methods as professional as a trained journalist?
Spreading information has never been easier and faster. It's almost scary how immediate information presentation has become. Nobody has to wait for anything. The time is takes to find out what is happening is faster than snapping our fingers. So, how do professional or scholastic journalists teach citizen journalists? It would to develop guidelines for citizen journalists and also hold workshops to teach them. Allowing citizen journalists to contribute stories to your news organization without any type of guidelines and training could easily result in your organization losing its credibility.
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