“Citizen Journalism” Gannett Jumps on Board
Have you got a blog? Do you write about what’s happening in your world, or under your expertise, or in your realm of influence? Gannett Co. may want to hear about it. The nation’s largest newpaper chain plans to create stories with information from bloggers, people who post in Internet discussion groups and other non-journalists in hopes of winning readers from the Internet, television and other news sources, officials with the company said.
Gannett, which operates 90 newspapers, including the nation’s largest, USA Today, is hoping “citizen journalism” will reverse the company’s part of an industrywide trend of declining circulation and advertising revenues, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Gannett also plans to merge newspaper and online operations of USA Today and other publications. All Gannett newspapers are being urged to make the transition quickly.
The question is begged to be ask, As Blogs and Citizen Journalism Grow, Where’s the News? Who writes the news, and what news is news?
Read about it in this article: Yahoo News - Gannett enlists citizen journalists
Here’s some nice commentary: The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism