Citizen journalism landmark events.

10,000 words have produced a list of the landmark moments in citizen journalism.

Taken from an American perspective it begins in September 2004 with Rathergate thru the Tsunami at the end of the year and the suicide bombings in London the following summer.

2007 though seems the watershed,the Virginia Tech shootings,the protests in Burma and the Californian fires.

Maybe though the turning point may prove to be last year's attacks in Mumbai where citizen journalism was accused of helping the terrorists.

From a British perspective the main one to add would be the Buncefield oil terminal fire where citizen journalism provided some graphic pictures on that Sunday morning and the Cutty Sark fire.