While millions of individuals are uploading video to YouTube, the integration of citizen journalism into mainstream journalism has not yet happened on a large scale, says Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Phil was a panelist at the Beet.TV online video
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roundtable last week at Stanford.
We agree. While CNN's iReport, Current.com and others are providing the public to upload into managed media environment, this is still in the early stages.
YouTube of course has established a powerful place as platform for citizen journalism which is "curated" not edited, says Steve Grove, YouTube's news and politics head who was also a speaker.
Finally, Charles Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com agrees with Bronstein that the integration of citizen journalism into mainstream media is yet to happen.
Moderated this panel was Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News and now a consultant with the Monitor Group.
Here's Phil's take on the conference in his blog post on the San Francisco Chronicle.
-- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
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