Va. Tech Shootings: Citizen Journalism, “Turning Witnesses Into Reporters”

I-Reporters are usually volunteers who submit citizen journalism content for free.
But Jamal Albarghouti, who filmed the now infamous cell phone video outside Norris Hall, will “receive an undisclosed sum, CNN having decided to pay him after it first aired the footage,” Ellen Gray says.

Her column is titled “Turning witnesses into reporters…”