This entry was written by guest writer Lisa Williams and posted on Jay Rosen's blog. It is on the topic of Citizen journalism being discovered in Watertown, MA or as it refers her blog in the entry, H2otown. As an aside, I know I'm using a lot of information from his blog, but there's so many articles that pertain directly to my topic of journalism and blogging and I've thouroughly enjoyed researching here.
Williams spoke of her blog H2otown throughout the entry and her voice as a citizen journalist in the town. She relays the news of Watertown for people in the twon that the local weekly newspaper can't do in a timely matter or doesn't cover at all. She provides readers with the pieces rather than the whole and "lets them piece it together."
She redefined citizen journalism for me. I thought citizen journalism was like in the traditional examples of troops in Iraq reporting what they see over there. But she is a great citizen journalist providing the news to people in her town for the right reasons - not because she's paid - but because they have a right to be informed.
Her story can be accessed through Jay Rosen's blog.