The Everyday Journalist
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The Camera Phone Journalist
A hugely significant change sparked by the technological revolution is the role of the camera and video phone in creating journalists out of every technologically-equipped citizen. The ubiquity of camera and videophones has turned every bystander with a cell phone into a potential video journalist. This allows people who do not (and should not) consider themselves to be journalists to participate in the process. Traditional television networks see the power and the value of these 'video journalists' and now solicit videos from their viewers to augment their internet sites [1] Examples: London Subway Bombing of 2005, Tsunami in Southeast Asia, and recent Occupy riots and protests.
The Blogging Journalist
The Web 2.0 also brought the rise of blogging which has created a community of unprofessional and professional blogger journalists. There is a vast blogosphere now devoted to online journalism, citizen journalism, news blogging, and the future of journalism. [2] Additionally blog-format news sites such as The Huffington Post are now some of the most-visited sites on the internet, a clear implication of the success of citizen/blogger journalism.
Backpack Journalists
"Backpack Journalists" is a term that has been assigned to the group of "free-agent" journalists, often profficient in digital technologies and news media who travel the globe finding and then selling their stories to large media conglomorates. "Armed only with a camcorder, laptop computer and satellite phone, backpack journalists can communicate with headquarters, perform rough edits in the field, and transmit completed stories and scripts... increasingly used as local correspondents for newspapers in the Untied States as they search for moving pictures for their internet web pages"
