It's become a whole lot easier to become a journalist over the past 10 years, thanks to the growing proliferation of the Internet; as well as subsequent ease at which anyone can post something on it, thanks to the growth of the mobile device industry as a whole.
See an interesting thing happen in the neighborhood? All a random person-on-the-street has to do is snap a picture of it with his/her cellphone; upload it to Facespace, Mybook or the like; and wait for an audience to come and take a look. Instant journalist.
Formal journalist training is only "icing on the cake" these days.
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