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	New York Times praises for citizen journalism

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1-21-2008 2:17 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21dce05b-9b55-4fbc-bb54-4c8d612761b0/5BB3FB67-30FD-4F9A-BCC3-C363670CC616/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_high_on_citizen_journalism.php#comment-45574" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_high_on_citizen_journalism.php#comment-45574" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readwriteweb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_high_on_citizen_journalism.php#comment-45574"><P><IMG width="163" height="33" border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/nytimes-logo.jpg" />The <I>New York Times</I> ran two stories today affirming the usefulness of citizen journalists and microjournalism tools to the reporting of major news stories.  In October <A href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/online_citizen_journalism_mainstream.php" linkindex="22">we reported that</A> citizen journalism had gone undeniably mainstream after both Reuters and CNN embraced citizen journalism techniques and amateur reporting itself in the coverage of important news stories (perhaps most notably at the time, the California wildfires).  Today the <I>Times</I> writes in two separate stories how techniques and technologies pioneered by citizen journalism are changing the way we get news.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_high_on_citizen_journalism.php#comment-45574">Noam Cohen <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/technology/21link.html" linkindex="23" set="yes">reports on the use</A> of <A href="http://www.twitter.com/" linkindex="24">Twitter</A> on the campaign trail in the ongoing US presidential elections.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_high_on_citizen_journalism.php#comment-45574">n another piece, the <I>NYT</I> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/business/21iraqblogger.html?_r=1&oref=login&ref=technology&pagewanted=all">writes about blogger Michael Yon</A>, who uses his blog to cover the Iraq war from the front lines.  "Michael Yon was not a journalist, and he wasn’t sure what a blogger was," the piece begins.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5BB3FB67-30FD-4F9A-BCC3-C363670CC616/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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