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The 'Nobility' of Amateur Journalism

Milverton Wallace, in an essay entitled “The new Corinthians: How the Web is socialising journalism,” says: So now we’ve come full circle: from 17th /18th century amateurism, to 19th/20th century professionalism and back to amateurism in the 21st century. Here we use “amateur” in the noble, Corinthian sense – someone or an activity motivated by […]