Richard Sambrook defining the scope of blogs in future

Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News at the BBC and guest writer of the blog cybersoc.com, writes on the citizen journalism and elaborates on the ongoing debate to give citizen journalism its legitimate place. He categorizes the citizen journalism into four areas where he recognizes citizen journalism as a part of journalism. He concludes by saying: And citizen participation is going to spread out beyond the media into areas like health and education and of course politics – which is why more and more politicians are starting blogs to speak directly to the public – from Mohammed Abtahi, Iran’s former vice President, to Barack Obama, US senator for Illinois and the latest candidate for “first black president”, to, I gather, David Miliband who will be the UK’s first cabinet minister to blog. Citizen journalism? Hardly, but important voices in the global conversation which now surrounds us all. Via: Cybersoc