This chapter discusses the worth and value of ‘citizen journalism’ as an umbrella term. It reviews existing research strands to argue that citizen journalism research has yet to grow to its full potential as the group of ‘citizen journalists’ is vastly heterogenous. In an attempt to position citizen journalists as opposite to professional journalism, scholarship might so far have missed out on opportunities to study these different citizen journalist actors both in their own right and in their relation to other information providers. With this in mind, this chapter suggests that future studies of citizen journalism should focus on assessing the contributions of individual actors by asking: (1) What motivates these actors and how do they engage with their role as information providers? (2) How can their relationships with other information actors (including but not limited to professional journalists) be described? And (3) In what ways do these actors contribute to a contemporary informational ecology, considering both their access to knowledge and (production) resources? This chapter, thus, tries to highlight that the one typical citizen journalist profile doesn’t exist. Rather, it asks of contemporary scholarship to further enlighten us on the distinct types of actors that collectively form the realm of citizen journalists.