I'm a journalist and thinker about communication technology and its impact on the practice of news. I'm the city government and business reporter at the Corvallis Gazette-Times, but I'll be speaking for myself and my craft on this one.

Social media and the rise of citizen media has crashed the gatekeeper role of the traditional journalist. But that means there's more information than ever before coming from a variety of sources - some trustworthy, some not. The revolution in media is participatory. So what's a citizen to do?