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With Janis Krums having tweeted the first picture of the Hudson crash using his iPhone yesterday the opportunity that citizen journalism offers publishers is clear for everybody to see!

This is surely going to be one of the landmark tweets. It was sent from on board the first rescue ferry to come to the aid of the plane that crashed in The Hudson yesterday.

A couple of weeks ago I commented on a post by Lewis Gray entitled “10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech”

I would add that in terms of delivering news in real-time that citizen journalism and a croudsoursed delivery mechanism will me more closely integrated with main stream news sources. Services like NowPublic.com will really come to the forefront and start making more of an impact.”

Me on 10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech By Louis Gray

I think this event demonstrates with dramatic effect how powerful citizen journalism can be and how events like this will bring it more praise as an incredibly important part of the modern news delivery mechanism.

Only two weeks into the year and a major news event with world wide interest has been captured first by a citizen journalist, there will be a lot more to come from citizen journalism in ‘09!

Janis Krums was on MSNBC while still on the ferry and is set to appear on breakfast shows in the US today to hopefully spread the word about how he took his photo and how other people can get involved with the network in the same way he did.

I wait with iPhone in hand eagerly anticipating the opportunity to deliver news to the masses.

Links:
- Janis Krums Twitter page
- The Tweet he sent from the ferry
- The Twitpic entry of the plane in The Hudson