Citizen, journalist, blogger - news is news

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MediaSaavy writer Barry Parr publishes the online publication "Coastsider", an interesting hyperlocal news site. Barry describes himself as "an Internet media and ecommerce consultant with more than fifteen years of experience building online services, including software development, Internet marketing, editorial, production, and market research." This story is from his blog, not from Coastsider, but it talks about a story of breaking news (sadly a murder case) that he had written about and taken photos of the scene. His photos were bought by a Singapore news operation, leading to his discussion of the blogger and journalist question.