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When professional journalism meets citizen journalism

Posted on the January 24th, 2009

The CNN news video below offers a terrific example of professional journalism integrating citizen journalism reporting into a news feature.

As described in a post Thursday from The Washington Note: (“CNN’s Photosynth Another Leap in Moving Content with New Technology”  Jan 22, 2009)

CNN‘s John King shows how pictures that regular folks took at the Inauguration can be synthesized into a photographic wall much larger than any single person had themselves. This is called CNN‘s “Photosynth.”

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