The Rise of the Citizen Editor: I, too, believe that as media evolves to more and more utilize content submitted by non-journalists, the need for professional editors will grow. Will that be a net gain in jobs as a result? I suspect that instead, some editors' jobs will change -- so that they are working with both professional staff and freelance journalists, as well as enthusiastic members of the public. It's a trend journalism schools should be on top of.
Citizen Journalism: What Mainstream Misses Is Most Read: "Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered by the city's other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news."
Bloggers as Agenda Setters: After the Chilean government introduced the "My First PC" program to enable Chilean citizens to get a new personal computer (for about US$400), a group of bloggers came out this week with a website displaying a letter to President Ricardo Lagos, in which they showed that there were cheaper alternatives.
