Citizen Journalism Website Triumphs at MediaGuardian Awards 2009

The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night (the 24th).

The MEGAs (as they are sometimes called), were launched in 2008 and  described as the 'Oscars' of media awards in the UK were presented by Lauren Laverne and include categories such as 'Best Advertising Campaign', "Community Engagement' as well as the prestigious 'Independent Media' Award.

The success of Demotix at such an award ceremony highlights the growing recognition citizen journalism is gaining amongst the mainstream media (Demotix itself has already received favorable coverage by Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=93462) and with the falling revenues and redundancies effecting most of the big media outlets demonstrates the increasingly held belief that citizen journalism is the future.