Citizen Journalism Quotes

• With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

  LZ Granderson

  Technology, Rocks, Media

  "America, a nation without heroes" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.

  Arianna Huffington

  Phones, Cameras, Expansion

  "Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2009.

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• I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

  Morley Safer

  Citizens, Journalism, Surgery

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• A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

  Craig Newmark

  Writing, Editing, People

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• Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

  Philippe Kahn

  Phones, Roots, Cameras

  NPR Interview, January 2007.

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• It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Dying, Citizens, Journalism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism.

  Arianna Huffington

  Moving, Media, Needs

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