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The photojournalistic landscape is undergoing dramatic change, and professional photojournalism is increasingly being supplemented with – and in some cases, replaced with – amateur, citizen photojournalistic content. This study undertakes to examine these changes in the visual change in the news environment by looking at the motivations and values of citizen photojournalist through interviews with 19 citizen photojournalists. The findings suggest that citizen photojournalists are savvy to the values and photojournalism, but often reject these normative values in lieu of values that reflect the characteristics of amateur content-creators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]