Citizen journalism is indeed a good way of not just keeping tabs on unlawful acts, but also ensuring that it creates a good relationship between the news reporter and the public. This ensures that not a single mistake is, or will be committed. Moreover, there are several ways to make citizen journalism effective. There are the different media available, including the world wide web. With the many ways that citizen journalism assists in news gathering and reporting today, citizen journalism is an avenue for:

1. Making public comment available for both print and broadcast media

2. Recruiting citizen add-on contributions (also for pint and broadcast media)
3. Considering "open-source" or "participatory" journalism or reporting
4. The phenomenal citizen bloghouse.
5. Transparent blogs in the citizen's newsroom.
6. Giving birth to an edited, stand-alone citizen-journalism Web site.
7. The advent of an unedited, stand-alone citizen journalism Web site.
9. Creating a news organisation that is a combination of citizen journalism and professionals.
10. Integrating both professionals and citizen journalists in one roof to make a firmer foundation.