“We are uncomfortable with the term ‘citizen journalism,’ ” said Todd Wolfson, 35, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the organizers of the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia. “We prefer the term ‘community journalism.’ ”
Citizen journalism has become the faddish name for the effort to encourage regular folk to use the Internet to report the news directly, but Mr. Wolfson had a point: many of the people whom his organization and an immigrant rights group, Juntos, are teaching to make video reports for streaming on the Internet are not citizens. Many are not even legal residents.
The hope, however, is that they can be journalists.
It's an interesting article that's worth checking out. I would have liked to see more time spent on the concept of "citizen journalism" itself, but it's meant to be a feature story on a media experiment based in Philadelphia, so that's where the focus lies.
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