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Here is a press release from the 6th World Young Reader Conference:
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 September 2005
For immediate release
Newspapers Win Back Young Readers
It is time for newspaper professionals to stop being defensive about their medium.
That was the underlying message from the 6th World Young Reader Conference, which challenged the contention that children don’t read [...]

In a Public Eye post at CBS it wrings its hands over the opportunities and concerns that citizen journalism poses. Key line might be:
As…traditional outlets take their baby steps towards integrating citizen journalism it will be interesting to see how much ground they are willing to seed to the non-professionals – and how much [...]

Newsday recaps how the New Orleans Times-Picayune kept getting out the paper, with a special emphasis on hurricane reporter Mark Schleifstein. The story says:
like the Cassandra of myth sounding her lonely, unheeded warning, he was right. Everyone heard him when he talked about the Big One and the 100,000 people too poor to leave [...]

Civic journalism plus is an editorial in the Sun.Star Network of Community Newspapers in the Philippines.

This from a San Francisco Chronicle story about OhmyNews, the South Korean citizen journalism written newspaper:
OhmyNews readers can offer instant feedback online and — if they really like a piece — monetary tips. Readers poured nearly 30 million won ($30,000) into columnist Kim Young Ok’s account in increments of $10 or less in one week [...]