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Citizen journalism takes root online – Just plain folks can create their own news sites
Barry Parr’s newsroom is his home office in Montara. Working part time, he writes up to 10 articles a week for no pay.
Time to quit journalism? Parr doesn’t think so.
He’s intensely excited by his work as reporter, editor and designer for Coastsider.com, a one-man Web site that covers news along the San Mateo County coast. If there’s a murder, board meeting or endangered red-legged frog where homes are to be developed, he wants to write about it.
"When I beat the local newspaper or I put up something I know has a different take on the news, then I get really happy," Parr said. "It’s rewarding."
Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer
Full Story: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/06/BUGF9D2HAO1.DTL
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