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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Roy Greenslade

A narrow view of citizen journalism

Citizen journalism? Or just people taking pictures? The Press Gazette's Citizen Journalism awards seem to be taking a narrow view of what the genre means, argues blogger Paul. "Only still pictures and/or video files will be considered", say the entry criteria, with the upshot that the very best of citizen journalism - independent reporting - gets overlooked. (Via Online Journalism Blog.)

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