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Grassroots Media's Potential: Better Journalism and Democracy | Bayosphere: "'Our citizen reporters were as essential to this coverage as our staff, and more essential than the standard human sources we have always relied on to tell us what is happening, and why. The citizen journalists, responding to our invitations and consistent guidance throughout the process, did enormous amounts of original reporting. They examined local, state and federal records, and documented what they'd found. They conducted interviews. They told us, and the rest of the world via blogs and online forums, their personal stories. We shared preliminary findings with them, and they responded with a flood of corrections, clarifications, data and new topics to pursue.'"