'Citizen Journalism' Grows Up. August 9, 2007
How to earn trust? asks new wave of news hounds.
By Rory O'Connor

Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, to mountaintops and then return to deliver the news as divinely revealed truth to the rest of us earthbound mortals?

Full story at Canadian progressive newsie TYEE