One characteristic of traditional media is that media content goes through an organized editorial process designed to authenticate news stories and attribute them to a news media organization rather than to an individual. The online citizen journalist does not work through this process. In this context, discuss the difference between the opinion news item by an individual blogger and a news report appearing in the online version of a newspaper. Use between 80 and 100 words.
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citizen journalism, journalism that is conducted by people who are not professional journalists but who disseminate information using Web sites, blogs, and social media.