Within minutes of the end of Steve Jobs’ announcement of the Apple iPad, I was getting emails and Twitter messages, asking me for my take on the device. Like so many thousands, I followed the presentation through the live blogs from Engadget and the Nieman Journalism Labs, as well as Twitter. Ahead of today’s unveiling, there was so much hype about the device that you could be forgiven for being

Image by acaben via Flickr The false report about Steve Jobs that briefly surfaced on CNN’s iReport site has prompted a wave of discussion on the “failings” of citizen journalism. Apple swiftly dismissed the rumour, and CNN removed the item. Across the web, there are comments about “the dangers of citizen journalism” (BBC), “citizen journalism just failed” (Read/Write/Web) or the “perils of citizen journalism” (Computerworld). These reports suggesting the imminent