For years, Americans have been accustomed to getting their news from professional journalists on network and local television, on radio and in newspapers. But these days, more and more Americans are ...

We don’t really know how “citizen journalism” will turn out, though as I noted in an item earlier today, a growing number of entrepreneurs and traditional news organizations are giving it a try. In ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Monday, the New York Times ran an article about the rise of participatory, or “citizen,” journalism. The piece led by ...

Richardson started her career working for Jet and Ebony magazines. She loved going through the archives of the magazines and learning about the roles they played in documenting history. At the same ...

The First Amendment protects the freedom of the press. But who qualifies as “the press”? Darnella Frazier was not an employee of any credentialed news media corporation when she pulled out her cell ...

"They figured that this would shut me down," says Priscilla Villarreal. "But what they did was create a monster." Villarreal is a journalist in the Texas border town of Laredo. She is at the center of ...

Topix, a news aggregation service that's been around for several years, launched a new site today, at Topix.com (previously the site was Topix.net). The service continues to pull local news from a ...

The neighborhood crime-watch app Citizen is covertly hiring journalists to livestream on the app at crime scenes for $25 per hour through third-party websites. I’m tired. A representative from Citizen ...