Citizen Journalism

Traditional media (newspapers, radio, and television) may stick around for a while, but it's going to be passed soon by the internet and Citizen Journalism.

Traditional media powerhouses, like the New York Times and NBC, are trying to capitalize on the popularity of internet news, but they can't compete with user submitted, social news sites like Digg and Reddit.

Reddit and Digg have news stories submitted every second by thousands of users every day. If the stories are popular enough, they get displayed on the front page where hundreds of thousands of people read them. These 2 sites are citizen journalism at its best. Some other sites include Wiki News and Orato, both of which have multiple new stories every day.

When devises like the Amazon Kindle become mainstream, I think newspapers as we know them will die out. How can they compete with sites that generate an entire newspaper worth of stories in under an hour?