Blog 2 (Week 3)
As a print journalist, my toolbox yesterday consisted of a computer, digital camera, dictaphone and a tonne of notepads and pens.
Today however, the toolbox is overflowing with multi-media gadgets such as videos, mobile phones and ipods.
These new-found tools assist in producing vlogs, moblogs and podcasts, accumlating into stimulating visual and audio on-line news presentations.
But it seems that three years of tertiary study is not needed to use these tools or call yourself a journalist.
Citizen journalists (CJs) are sprouting, and most prominently sprouted in the aftermath of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and London bombings in 2005.
CJs are your average day joes, majority with no media experience, and just happen to be at the place of breaking news stories. 
They capture footage and images through mobile phones or video cameras and then supply their crafty work often to major news networks.
Want an example of CJs at play? Just take a look at the South Korean website OhMyNews, where the majority of content is produced by citizens.
I’d never heard of Ohmynews before today, but on closer inspection, the layout of the website and content produced by these so called CJs, is quite impressive.
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