9.07am: Syria: Very disturbing video has emerged purporting to show Syrian troops burying alive a man for sending videos to the international media.

The footage [warning: distressing content] cannot be independently verified

Study of citizen reporting of revolution 2009-2011 shows that citizen journalists have become "better" adapting to the values and professional needs of news organisations.

When members of the Local Coordination Committees found out he had witnessed the events and was fluent in English, he was asked to speak to foreign media. Late that night, he went on Al Jazeera and described what had happened.

Unable to show his face or reveal his name, he called himself Alexander Page, an artist he had come across at random online just minutes before. When he was contacted again by CNN, they asked him to use the name and it stuck.

Now jobless, Mr. Jarrah went on blogging and using Twitter and Facebook to tell the story of what he witnessed, all under the name of Alexander Page.

“When I was outed, it became me, so we began the Activists News Association.”

“We want to document Assad crimes. To do that, we have to gather up every video that was taken in Syria,” Mr. Jarrah said as he sat in the office alongside a wall of televisions projecting newscasts in which many of the activists’ videos were being used. “You have over 1,000 videos filmed every day, maybe more.

The so-called "citizen journalists" will never offer a real replacement to newspapers and television news, he told Cheltenham Literature Festival.<br />
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He said: "Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all.<br />
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"A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.<br />
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"OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk. But the so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night.<br />
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"It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism."<br />
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Responding to a question from his audience at Cheltenham Town Hall he added: "Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. It is vituperative.

Citizen sources were divided into victim or family (local or foreign), witness, vox pop (local or foreign), and citizen journalist (local or foreign), for a total of seven categories; other source categories included government, police, etc. She also examined the timing of source use (beginning, middle, or end of the events).

Case study of Mumbai 2008

Reactions from the Indian blogsophere to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai were posted as events unfolded last night, with firsthand witness accounts and real-time citizen journalism efforts. Here are some of the links to those posts, some of which make use of collaborative tools and web 2.0 technology to spread information around the world about what was happening.

Flickr was soon host to a set of photos from Vinukumar Ranganathan, who grabbed his camera and headed out into the street; his set of pictures taken on the night contained 112 photos with dramatic scenes of the aftermaths the attacks in the district of Colaba.

Includes screenshots of journalists' interactions with Twitter user Teerah Moore

And yet, the first news and analysis out of the base didn’t come from the experts. Nor did it come from the 24-hour news media, or even from dedicated military blogs – but rather from the Twitter account of one Tearah Moore, a soldier from Linden, Michigan who is based at Fort Hood, having recently returned from Iraq.

“Networked journalism” takes into account the collaborative nature of journalism now: professionals and amateurs working together to get the real story, linking to each other across brands and old boundaries to share facts, questions, answers, ideas, perspectives.

Khyaboon, (meaning 'street') is one of underground internet journals that emerged in Iran after the June presidential election and subsequent systematic repression of protesters.

Over the past few weeks we've touched on a number of subjects - violence in the Xinjiang province in China, the elections in Afghanistan, issuing of mobile phones to villagers in Nigeria by BBC Hausa - that are linked together by a common thread. They all involve citizen journalists, ordinary, untrained reporters whose accounts of what is happening in their part of the world is a significant part of the BBC's reporting.

Ever since 2005, when Richard Sambrook coined the phrase "we don't own the news any more", the democratisation of news has been unstoppable, with people claiming their right to tell their story the way they want to.

We are all journalists now,’ boast the twitters and bloggers who – thanks to the internet – can talk to the world as reporter, broadcaster, publisher, and editor.

…In just a couple of weeks we’ve uncovered a £2.2m overspend by Birmingham City Council, the most ticketed places and most over zealous parking inspector in Birmingham, and the fact that BCC use surveillance powers 6 times more than they should be based on population. So don’t tell me what is “required to uncover what centres of power are really up to” without any evidence.

Radical impartiality...

“We’ve just heard that the Demotix contributor who was arrested last week by the Iranian police will not face further inquiries and has had his camera returned to him by officials. You may that he was told he could be charged as a spy and potentially executed during his arrest, so this news comes as a great relief to him and – I’m sure – everyone involved with Demotix.

Eyewitness account from Iran. Unverified. Haven't had a chance to read it yet!

Links to Internet coverage

Is everything news? Everyone has news, right? Think CommonCraft Youtube video.

Blurring lines between 'professional' and 'amateur'.

End of Scoopt. This model doesn't work. Interesting news for Demotix

Forums for citizen journalists? Adoption of user generated content initiatives by online news media

Gauravonomics blogger on role of citizen journalism

This is Axel Bruns 'gatewatching' in action

Helen Boaden on citizen journalism and democracy

Less journalism, more churnalism?

How to do Breaking News - a pro-am model applied to an explosion

Let's not get carried away with this citizen journalism malarkey