 Citizen journalism comes from people who are not professional journalists who don't do journalism for a living but I think more than that and probably more importantly the difference between citizen journalism and more traditional professional journalism is that very often citizen journalism comes from people who are right in the heart of a story and are seeing it through through their own eyes and through their own experience and telling in many cases of a first-person intimate view of an event as it happens and I personally find that the most compelling and interesting aspect of citizen journalism