Eugene Driscoll, independent writer

Eugene Driscoll, an independent writer for Vallyindy.org described his job as the "best job" he'll ever have.

His experience in online journalism and editing allowed him to launch his website on June 22. It is a "one" man newspaper with him and another woman.

His goal is to get the word out because his deepest darkest fear is that no one will no longer care about news. He also allows people to comment on his stories. Commenters are good for page views and people that comment are so much more involved with the website. Despite those who demean journalism by causing problems, including racism.

He receives community help from influential people such as local firefighters, police department and football players. With online journalism, he says people are more understanding. What he loves about his site? That it's him.

I admired that he didn't include any AP articles and kept his writing local. He gives news as it happens and works every hour of the day. Constantly updating the website, answering questions live and still loving his job even if he has to stay up until 2 or 3 a.m. editing his own stories and having to wake up early in the morning to update or write new stories. The reaction may be slow but I believe that it will be here for awhile. Everyone lives on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and other blog sites. His job isn't only important to himself but us too, I mean, somebody has to do it.