Topic: Citizen Journalism

CNN's Citizen Journalism Plans Expand

CNN

Last week, CNN sacked over 50 staffers, many of them camera-lugging photojournalists, in part because it will lean more heavily on its citizen journalism outfit iReport for more, better content.

By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 11, 2011

CNN Photojournalists Lose Jobs to Cheaper, Better Cameras

CNN is passing out pink slips in their DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles offices following a three-year long review of the company's workflow. 

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