Summary of news article:

• The creation of "citizen journalism" has revolutionised the way the delivery of information and how the information is used.
• Encouraging a relationship between readers and writers of news.
• Everyone is an editor of news.
• If journalism were to continue down this road, there will be many more external resources for news.
• Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have made it possible to work outside the contraints of working for a newspaper. E.g. Journalists on Twitter used their audiences as sources for news stories.
• With this sort of dynamic between readers and writers, its blurs the lines of journalism as reader's own knowledge is what helped create the story.
• One example of "crowdsourcing" is when the guardian appealed to followers to help them sift through MP expenses. More than 21,000 people took part.

Quality of Journalism in the digital age:

• Compared to newspaper stories that go through serveral quality checks, Stories on facebook and Twitter do not go through these checks therefore the quality of them is questionable.

Death of Ian Tomlinson:

• Ian Tomlinson died at the g20 postests, where people in the crowds looked through their phones for evidence of the assult. Once this evidence was found it was then passed to the guardian where they used this footage to create the story.