by Anindita Sengupta Mumbai attacks: citizen journalism round-up by Jessica Reed.
"Natalie told us about a summer course where we'd learn a lot about journalism, look round newsrooms, and get insider tips on how to break into print," says Jessica. "It really fired me up.
But if you start the other way round, defining journalism that lacks all quality, then the mists begin to clear.
On the hilariously self-regarding Fotheringham, who earns his bread as a sub-editor of a spiritualist paper, Powell hangs the immortal tag: "The aura of journalism's lower slopes hung round him like a vapour".
This is an ongoing discussion as old as journalism itself, but the latest round was now being thrashed out not in the abstract, over the ether via Twitter or a social media post, but in person in Lebanon, bordering Syria itself.
This was not the only time British journalism would rally behind the all-rounder.
After a stellar career at Oklahoma, Watts, who graduated with a degree in journalism, was passed over in the high rounds of the National Football League draft.
By 9 o'clock, Rachel Sterne, the 26-year-old founder of GroundReport, a citizen journalism site, was sitting at the same big round table near the door, texting her boyfriend, the founder of Livestream.
Blog network/ citizen journalism site Instablogs is currently negotiating a $3 million round of funding, sources familiar with the deal have told TechCrunch.
Investigative journalism, off the news diary, separate from the daily round of events, free from PR persuasion, remains among our trade's greatest reasons for existence.
