Trinity Mirror embraces citizen journalism

It appears that Trinity Mirror is embracing the net. The company's head of multi-media, Michael Hill, told the citizen journalism conference in Birmingham that we have reached the "garlic bread moment" for the local press, the realisation that new media and citizen journalism "is the future". To that end, TM has launched five citizen journalism "micro-sites" at the Teesside Gazette, has plans to launch 18 more and, if successful, the idea could be rolled out across the group. Hill argues that the "new powers" of the net can be harnessed for the good of print. It's an inetresting speech. (Via Citizen Journalism Wordpress)