Amateurs working as journalists are giving rise to a new wave of 'citizen newspapers.'

Across the country "citizen newspapers" are springing up, full of promise, energy and atrocious spelling errors. They're largely written by unpaid, untrained and unedited citizen reporters, who say they "commit acts of journalism" more for kicks than out of a sense of civic calling.

"I close every semester by saying, 'I've just taught you journalism as
it was practiced in my day. The journalism in your day is going to be
different,' " Meyer said. " 'It's up to you to invent it, please don't
mess it up.' "