Citizen capabilities

Citizen Journalists are increasingly contributing to our networks, stations and publishers' news. Mostly in the form of vision, moving and still, with enabling technology citizen journalism is increasing the democracy, relevance and reach of news. While our "most clicked" videos are usually capture the funny and cute things babies and animals do, like this one... (earning more than 72 million views)

They can shine light on previously unknown and undocumented injustice, in countries where censorship is rife, governments are oppressive, or international media can't go. America's ABC newsreader, Katie Couric, makes some valid points and highlights (until 2010) some of her favourite viewer-generated news content here.

Usually, it's not the press, but locals, employees, friends and family that are first on the scene of a fire, in the midst of an earthquake or a riot. Journalism is bettered by the front-row content it can use to tell stories world-wide.