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Article: Feature: Traditional journalism challenged by citizen journalism in U.S.
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 5, 2009
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Feature: Traditional journalism challenged by citizen journalism
in U.S.
by George Bao
LOS ANGELES, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Soon after U.S. Airways flight
1549 crashed into the Hudson River in New York in January, Janis
Krums from Florida posted the first photo on Twitter from his
iPhone, which was 34 minutes faster than any traditional media had
done. Scholars call it "citizen journalism" which is challenging the
traditional journalism in the United States.
In the digital age, almost everyone can be a journalist. While
traditional journalists should receive formal training of news
reporting and editing, citizen journalists do not need any
journalism training. There are many ways for them to ...