Los Angeles Times
"Citizen newspapers" are springing up across the country, "full of promise, energy and atrocious spelling errors," reports
Mayrav Saar. Journalism prof
Philip Meyer tells her: "What you're seeing is a radical new way of doing journalism. ...We old-timers look at it and say, 'This is terrible. This isn't journalism.' But, in fact, this is something that has value and needs to be developed."
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Can we trust news clips posted on YouTube by citizen journalists? (LAT)