Professional and citizen jouranlists: 'symbiotic partners'

William Powers, a columnist for National Journal magazine, says,

"Rather than the opponents they are made out to be, citizen journalists and mainstreamers look more and more like symbiotic partners. As the BBC showed a few years ago when it used citizen journalists brilliantly to cover the London subway bombings, and as the mesmerizing CNN/YouTube debate confirmed, crowd-powered news is most effective and useful when it has been filtered and selected by more-experienced journalists.

Crowds aren't wise all by themselves -- they need editing, too."

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