Gillmor: Citizen journalists must pick up media's slack

The Project for Excellence in Journalism?s annual report concluded the media are too focused on "repackaging and presenting" news, rather than finding new and innovative ways to gather it, reports Dan Gillmor on his grassroots journalismblog. Agreeing with their conclusion, Gillmor says he doubts the media ? "conservative to a fault when it comes to adapting to change" ? will begin investing more heavily in original reporting. Instead, he puts his stock in 'citizen journalism,' via blogs and other media, as the best way to propagate new perspectives and information. There "are folks who want to have their say and want to be part of a conversation, not talked down to in lecture mode by an industry that sees news as just another widget on the assembly line," he writes.