"What’s most impressive for this new style of journalism is the effortless switching between original reporting, editing, and curating content from other sources, all with the seamlessness of someone who’s a web native."

Seriously? The first bit by the "landmark" collab of Wired and NewAssignment to revolutionize citizen journalism is an inside baseball piece about wikifrigginpedia? I guess we should be thankful there wasn't an accompanying LOLcats slideshow.

Yo! Periodista!

With some heavy funding, including the MacArthur foundation, Craig Newmark, Wired, Reuters. Aims to be a collaboration between real journalists and the citizen kind.

"Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming" Honestly, though, is that any worse than local TV coverage?

Looks like this is finally live. I'd like to see better integration with the rest of the site, but this is an obvious future for newspapers. Looks great.

On the demise of Backfence

Seems a bit sensationalist, but certainly worth watching. Appears to be mostly camera phone shots of celebs, so, huzzah to our future CJ overlords. Kill me now.

Yahoo's UGC play. Clever name...

The thing I love the most about this is that this video is actually on CNN.com

Geoff Dougherty's citizen journalism efforts appear to be taking off...

Passenger on the flight Alaskan flight that nearly crashed blogs the event, with pictures

Grassroots citizen journalism, started by my buddy Geoff, former Tribune staff writer

Old guy gets cranky about something false somebody wrote on the internets. Film at 11. Repeat after me -- if you're using the Wikipedia as an aboslute, definitive source, you're using it incorrectly.

Are they jumping on the "citizen journalism" bandwagon? Or is this just "America's funniest public radio?"

Citizen journalists unite!