There is much talk about the declining number of working (that is, “paid”) journalists and how it will have a negative impact on our ability to understand the world we live in clearly. Hard to disagree with that notion.
There is also a lot of discussion about how “community” journalism will be required to pick up some of the slack of those missing reporters, but that it will be inferior journalism. Not so fast. There are plenty of cases where the second kind of storytelling works just fine when compared to the “big boys” of journalism.
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