Saturday, June 17, 2006

Yahoo and citizen journalism

Yahoo Wants Citizen Journalism: "Yahoo hopes to become the best-known brand name in citizen journalism."

This article raises questions about what news stories citizen journalists will cover. It sounds like Yahoo is working out a way for Verizon, Cingular and others to enable their subscribers to send videos and pictures from cell phones directly to a new Yahoo service as news. Leaving aside questions about accuracy and completeness, I would hope that cell phones are not the only source! The video clarity on digital cameras is often quite impressive, to say nothing of DV and HDV materials.

First there was "all the news fit to print", followed by "all the news that fits", and now "all the news"?

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