Newspapers use to "operate a "tablet of stone" model of journalism". This is where the journalists present their own information and ideologies with very limited input from the reader
Due to the introduction of the internet, "citizen journalism" has allowed equality of production between journalists and readers.
Journalists are said to be struggling with the lack of power they get from shared production, but institutions are now trying to create a community of producers and consumers can work together.
They want to encourage people to consume more as well as produce.
Social networking sites such as twitter enable people to create media outside the organised media such as newspapers.
The Guardian has "682,000 followers on Twitter " which is double the print consumers, showing the importance of citizen journalism and the role of the internet in modern society.
There are some negatives with citizen journalism; there is no way to monitor information produced and published. This means that journalist can only use citizen journalism as a primary source that has to be verified.
An example of citizen journalims benefiting the news is the Ian Tomlinson case. Journalist Paul lewis wasn't convinced by the cause of Ian's death stated by the police, so decided to investigate on his own. After searching, he came across someone who filmed the assult on Ian by the police and was published online.
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