- Some commentators predict ordinary people are about to take over the newsroom. Is the end nigh for newspapers, or is citizen journalism the fanciful notion of propeller heads drunk on technology and blind to human nature?

Mainstream news providers as we’ve known them are about to curl up at the toes. The internet has given everyone a voice. Cancel your newspaper subscriptions. News reporting no longer needs trained arbiters, balance, insight or skilled storytellers. Yeah right. Talkies debunks the myth in the New Zealand Herald.