Sacked By Citizen Journalism

T.C. Cameron writes:

Yesterday I was told my syndicated version of The Write Referee blog would be sacked by The Oakland Press in favor of citizen journalism.

Citizen journalism is the ingenious creation of editors lacking for legitimate journalistic resources and the financial inducements to compensate said legitimate journalists. As advertising revenue plummets, so does pay for real writers. What newspapers and an endless list of Internet blog sites offer is byline stardom in return for copy. The byline is the payment for the copy. All the newspapers pay for is the editor responsible for making sure it's true -- that's code for a once-over to make sure all the key facts of the story seem to be in place -- and the online platform they publish within.

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