Instead of wondering whether citizenship journalism is a threat or a challenge to journalism, the question being asked at the moment is how important it is.
Today weblogs seem to be everywhere in and around the journalism. The media publish weblogs as one item in their online content repertoire, individual journalists have taken up blogging, and an array of amateurs are maintaining weblogs that at least to certain extent resemble news journalism. The profession has come to see its niche as connected to the absence of personal bias but rather to journalistic method.
It will be reasonable to assume that the social maturation of internet communication, for its parts has formed favourable ground for citizenship journalism to develop a specific net communication genre.