Roy Greenslade
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"Roy Greenslade" is Professor of Journalism at City University London and has been a media commentator since 1992, most notably for The Guardian. He currently writes a daily blog on The Guardian media site and also writes a column for the London Evening Standard.

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The citizen journalist here is a snapper who happens to be passing somewhere where something is going on. What we haven't developed yet is the citizen journalist who goes out and writes and reports.

It hasn't got a proper foothold here yet -- citizen journalism hasn't carved out a niche for itself like in the United States.

Among the red-top tabloids, subterfuge has become the norm.

I expect citizen journalism to really take off at regional and local level: citizens reporting about what goes on in their area, on their street.