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Well, that's according to @tacomasha on Twitter. @tonysteward is more restrained - Okay, the AP iPhone app is legit, it will take citizen journalism to a whole new level. Exciting! As is @miguelmanalo - Dude AP on-the-go citizen journalism? Kickass.......more

YouTube is launching Citizen News (from RWW) The CitizenNews channel is where we'll be highlighting some of the best news content on YouTube. If you see examples of great journalism and reporting being done by your fellow YouTubers, let me......more

There's something genuinely touching about Michael Rosemblum's testimony to Ken Krushel. Together they devised CitizeNews, and launched it last summer: Then we went out to try and raise money for it. It was not easy. We were late. After Youtube......more

John Kelly is an American journalist currently living in Oxford - and on a mission: I'm studying citizen journalism, a buzzword which basically applies to anyone who isn't like me doing what it is that I do. You can read......more

A week ago, TechCrunch reviewed DigitalJournal's citizen journalism relaunch. The thrust of the piece was the revenue share for contributors: Digital Journal offers a Citizen Journalism site in a similar fashion to Instablogs, OhMyNews, Newsvine, Norg Media and others. Members......more

Another mainstream entrant into the citizen journalism space, this time from CBS and sporting one of the worst URLs yet - http://www.cbseyemobile.com. That's 'eye' as in 'i' as in 'iMobile', of course. Snappy strapline, too: At first glance, it's much......more

Citizen journalism outfit CJReport.com is suitably chuffed to raise $4.6m in funding from Sequoia Capital, an a+ venture capital company. So what does CJReport.com do? On CJReport, anyone can edit (even anonymously) and start contributing to stories in the usual......more

In an earlier post, I echoed Steve Outing's assumption that mainstream media would be characteristically slow to adapt to and adopt the potential of live video from mobile phones. So it was a surprise and a pleasure to read about......more

Or more precisely, 10 personal reflections on the interface between CJ and the mainstream media. 1) When you turn on the user-generated tap, you risk getting drowned in content. 2) Most of this content will be crap. Putting a badge......more

It takes nerve to launch a new citizen journalism website right now. It’s already a crowded space – shortly, I predict, to become markedly less crowded as tried-and-failed business models hit the buffers – but some opportunities surely remain. And......more