Sociologist Herbert Gans argues it's time for political reporting to stop focusing solely on the elites and experiment with new models for bottom-up journalism.
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Citizen journalism is certainly a hot topic, but is it getting the respect it deserves as an innovative and democratizing way of the new media. This essay from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard argues that bottom-up journalism is not only important, it's necessary.