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Grassroots Journalism

A friend of mine went to Korea this last summertime, and took an amazing bunch of pictures. It struck me as I was browsing them: these are not just vacation photos to be filed away, they are of high enough quality to appear in most any mainstream publication.

I look forward to the day when photostreams like this get passed around
and we can get national-geographic caliber stories written grassroots by
the masses instead of by magazines. Do you think it’ll happen? I give
it 10-15 years max before this becomes mainstream =)…

(note: if you look carefully, bbc solicits reader information and photos at the bottom of most breaking articles, so I suppose we’re already getting there).

p.s. the author of these photos says:

… Yeah, I think grassroots story telling will will go mainstream but I think it might happen in 5-7 years. We’re in the 1.0 phase now with bubblings of what is to come — there a quite a few publically generated news sites and larger operations aggregating strories/photos from regular folks … It’s just matter of time before the next big idea hits that brings the various streams/ideas come together.