The Colorado Springs Gazette has joined the Your Hub network of Web sites, allowing local citizens to report and post news stories from the area on the Colorado Springs Your Hub site (ColoradoSprings.com). The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association reports that Your Hub at Colorado Springs will begin publishing three zoned, weekly tabloid newspapers on Oct. 26, featuring the best stories and photos from the Web site as well as some staff-generated content. Eventually, the SNPA reports, six Your Hub papers, covering different parts of the Gazette's circulation area, will be published.
Citizen journalism is a definite departure from the traditional style of journalism, but, as Gazette publisher Freedom Communications reports, citizen journalism "is journalism for the people, by the people, our freedom of speech in pure form."
Your Hub sites and zoned publications are already doing well in the Denver metro area, pulling in much-sought-after revenue for the newspaper industry. Is citizen journalism really the face of journalism's future? Do you think more readers prefer this rather unfiltered type of reporting over the traditional news gathering process? Should traditionalists (like me, I suppose) get out of the way and let journalism take this new direction?
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In the case of "citizen Journalism" I think that it can looked at as being both positive and negative. I think that the average public will see it as very unbiased, but probably not as credible as traditional journalism. I also don't think that readers will prefer this type of reporting based on the fact that anyone with an opinion on something can post whatever they want.
As far as the future of journalism, I don't think that citizen journalism will have too great of impact. I don't see this as becoming the face journalism's future. And I don't think that traditionalists, like yourself, should get out of the way when you have worked so hard to get where you are.
Travis Bliss
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