Citizen Journalism and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

More people have started to debate the future of Citizen Journalism. While still there remain some issues in regard to ethical and moral agents in citizen journalism reporting, the public report steadily makes inroads.

Citizen Journalism is expected to gain more importance and acknowledgment during the Olympic Games in Beijing, in 2008. There is a very interesting article called "Beijing Olympics could be the making of citizen journalism" and published in a leading British journalism site Journalism.co.uk/.

The article is right about the place of Citizen Journalism during Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. "The organizing committee has released a hefty guide to foreign journalists covering the 24th Olympiad, yet it has so far made no provision for the thousands of visitors - equipped with DV cameras, photo-phones, Blackberry devices and laptops - who will want to report events - sporting and non-sporting - on their blogs, or send images to citizen-journalism agencies."

While the government in China may have some restrictions on the traditional media report (hopefully not, and that the Games will be a step forward in democracy) they can't control the number of people who will take pride in sharing their eyewitness account of events with the world public.

This will bring Citizen Journalism to a higher and more established level.

Do you agree with this opinion? What are the topics that you as a citizen journalism like to cover in general? Are sports related topics in your favorites?