Professional journalists may turn up their noses at the grainy images or shaky footage but news consumers are increasingly accustomed to seeing citizen media covering stories from Tahrir Square to the Westgate Mall and beyond. Newsrooms are adapting and a new generation of citizen content intermediaries are now here to help; sourcing citizen content and verifying its authenticity - even training citizen reporters in the needs of the newsroom.
Mume baada ya kupata taarifa hizo zinazoweza kumpa mtu ugonjwa wa moyo ghafla, alifanya mawasiliano na baadhi ya ndugu wengine ikiwa ni pamoja na kumtwangia simu mpigapicha wetu. Ilikuwa saa 8:34 usiku, tukio lipo Mbagala, mpigapicha wetu yupo Kijitonyama, Kinondoni. Ilibidi apande pikipiki yake iendayo kasi kuliko nyingine katika teknolojia ya kisasa.