While there may be a huge resistance within the journalism community to succumb to the web and blogging and tweeting, I find it fascinating.

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Joining us now is Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and community issues at the University of Kentucky.

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Smarter and deeper journalism combined with community involvement will lead to new revenue streams.

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Finally, perhaps the most advanced form of citizen journalism is where a community of users works together to make an alternative news website.

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That is the future of local journalism -- high-quality journalism that engages the community, reaches interested readers everywhere, and generates the revenue to support the enterprise.

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If true, would be the worst of all worlds for journalists struggling to make Nola.com work, and the community that depends on them for good journalism: a structure that is literally being hollowed out around them.

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The CNN iReport Awards celebrate journalism and reward iReporters for their contributions to our community.

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The CNN iReport Awards is an opportunity to celebrate journalism and reward iReporters for their contributions to our community.

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He said that he was also concerned that citizen journalism was only representing the young, web-savvy community of Iran, and that the older generation, with perhaps different views, are being drowned out.

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Last month, a group of journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, tackled all the issues facing the community on a blog called Reinventing Reno.

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