Report Shows Citizen Media Growing
February 6, 2007
Sorry for the lack of updates during the week, but i’ve been in a pretty crummy work situation, so bear with me folks (aka Professor Hancock).
A report from the institute of interactive journalism has released information showing that citizen journalism websites that provide its demographics with extremely local news as well as information based on those who experienced what they deem as news. These websites for smaller communities are a really good thing considering that these communities cannot get local news from television, radio, or even in some cases newspapers.
I don’t see how such websites can be a bad thing to other news mediums. These local sites are created because the other news mediums are not providing these communities with the news they seek, but trying to accomodate smaller demographics would be too difficult and costly a task for large news providers. It’s great that people are showing the will to pick up the slack and provide communities with news.
