Josh Catone looks at how mainstream media has embraced the tools of citizen journalists.
“It’s interesting to see how the techniques and technologies of amateur, citizen journalists are adopted, co-opted, and integrated by the mainstream media. Take blogs, for example, which earlier in this decade seemed like just an outlet for amateur web publishers. Fast forward a few years and you’ll be hard pressed to find any mainstream news source that doesn’t embrace blogging in some way — CyberJournalist.net lists 245 blogs run by mainstream news sites.”