Malibu Fire Shows Readers Do Have a Role In Traditional Journalism
Today’s Malibu fire (which burned 4 homes possibly including a home owned by Suzanne Somers) demonstrated the value of citizen journalism to a traditional media company like the LA Times. Along with the excellent photos by the Times staff photographer dispatched to the blaze, the Times website had reader-submitted photos of the fire as well.
The photo below was submitted by Times reader Vanessa Dunlap:
Let’s just hope it wasn’t a LAT reader that started the fire giving the Tribune an easy reason to kill this promising initiative.
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