With the Arab Spring turning everyday citizens with cell phones into witnesses — sometimes the only witnesses — on tumultuous events, the time for the citizen journalism app has definitely arrived.

While citizen reporters offer immediacy and expanded voices, print media still holds the indispensable roles of fact-checking, ethical management, and contextual analysis. The rapid growth of digital ...

“There exists enormous potential to build partnerships between newsrooms, individual content creators, mediamakers, and citizens that are both just and sustainable.” As exciting as it is to see local ...