Citizen Journalism in the London Terror Attacks
July 8, 2005 
Citizen journalism played an important part in telling the story of the 7/7 London Terror Attacks.
CNN has an article about that cell phone video clip circulated by the AP and played thousands of times during yesterday’s coverage:
Bombing horror captured on phones:
The video was grainy, shaky but undeniably compelling: Passengers standing in the aisle of a subway car, its windows shattered following one of the coordinated explosions in London.
It was the first time several U.S. television executives could recall using video taken from a cellular phone during coverage of a major story, no doubt a harbinger of things to come. […]
“No question about it,” [Jonathan Klein, CNN’s U.S. chief] said. “There’s been a lot of talk in terms of the increased democratization of the news media relating to blogs and the like. This is another example of the citizen journalist.”
It’s good to see recognition of the importance citizen journalists (including bloggers) play in informing the public during major news events. And we’re definitely going to be seeing more and more citizen journalism in the near future.
