http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/05/social-media-journalism-wars-authenticity
The growth of social media has changed the way news organisations cover conflicts around the world, but traditional journalistic values are still vital. These, at least, were the main conclusions from a panel at the Web Summit conference in Dublin this morning, featuring representatives from Time, Vice News and News Corporation-owned social curation service Storyful. While the panel shook their heads en masse when the phrase “citizen journalism” was mentioned, they admitted that on-the-spot witnesses are now as likely to be posting on social media as talking to a journalist. “Now people can bypass us using a camera phone and a social network, and the means of production have been completely overturned,” added Mark Little, chief executive of Storyful. “Now everyone out there is a creator of content, and our job is more as managers of an overabundance of content.”
I believe that citizen journalism will only continue to increase as traditional journalism dies down. Social media will also continue to grow and sites such as Twitter allow the general public to create and publish more citizen journalism footage.
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