Love it or hate it, citizen journalism is here to stay. Personally I'm ready to embrace it, so it was a happy coincidence that I stumbled upon a news story in the same week that I learned about NowPublic.com, reportedly the largest citizen journalism site and recently partnered with the Associated Press.

I'd pitched my little news story to an IT site that I used to write a lot for, and still do occasionally, but they didn't pick it up. So I figured what the hell, I'll jump into the whole citizen journalism thing head first.

It's worth noting that within two hours of the story going live on NowPublic, the ISP mentioned in the article had revised its cancellation policy and done a handbrake one-eighty. So while the point of the article was to report the new Ofcom regulations and to illustrate why they are necessary, it has accidentally shown the power of citizen journalism. For as long as reporting is done fairly and factually, does it really need the backing of the mainstream media?

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