Ryan Hopkins

President & Founder of The Public Square Project; government transparency advocate; last Pittsburgh Pirates fan.

What Is Citizen Journalism?

Ryan Hopkins
8/26/09

I get that question a lot. As you might expect, there are many definitions of "citizen journalism", but I think the best one comes from Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University and one of the earliest proponents of citizen journalism. Rosen's definition:

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