Citizen blogging takes spotlight after Asian tsunami

Via dotJournalism: The tsunamis brought out the best in citizen journalism, in the form of photos, personal accounts and readers' stories, says Steve Outing of Poynter Online. A good number of mainstream media organizations picked up on these pieces, though BBC has arguably done the best job of integrating real life accounts with its own reporting, Outing says. He suspects that the news media is still hesitant to embrace citizen reporting for the fear of credibility. But overall, the incident has brought to light an army of accidental journalists' who could become an integral part of news media.