This assignment was particularly difficult for me because there are not too many exciting things happening in Easton, PA. Citizen journalism can be defined as the analysis of news and information reported/collected/shared by the general public. In this day and age, one does not need to have the official title of journalist to report like one. Anyone can whip out their phones, and with the touch of a button, record anything they think will grab an audience’s attention.

At first for this assignment, I tried to gather videos from a Coldplay concert I went to a little while ago. I enjoy watching concert footage other people have recorded to get the feeling I was really there. Weeks leading up to the concert, my friends kept telling me how Coldplay puts on one of the best performances they have ever seen with all of the fireworks, and I wanted to capture it on camera. That footage was only about 10 seconds long and did not fit the needs for this assignment.

While thinking about what I was going to do for my plan B, I saw this black cat crossing right in front of me. My next thought: great, now something horrible is going to go wrong in my life. So basically with my citizen journalism piece, I’m warning others of this bad luck roaming around on Lafayette’s campus. I also think the fact that our encounter was unplanned speaks to citizen journalism.