Citizen’s crime livestreams are no substitute for local journalism

The neighborhood crime-watch app Citizen is covertly hiring journalists to livestream on the app at crime scenes for $25 per hour through third-party websites. I’m tired. When Citizen first hit the App Store in 2016, it was called Vigilante — it marketed itself as a platform to fight injustice with transparency, which might sound good … Continue reading Citizen’s crime livestreams are no substitute for local journalism