Citizen Journalists take hope: your payday may soon come if you work hard enough. BBC.co.uk announced today that BBC producer Mike Worsley hired reviewer Susi Weaser for a Sunday lifestyle show based entirely off of Weaser's gadget reviews on YouTube.

It will be interesting to see if Ms. Weaser's hiring is an isolated event or part of a larger movement by mainstream media outlets to hire staff based off of their blogging and/or video blogging abilities. If so, your next blog post, video or podcast might be the one that gets you noticed by people with enough money to make things interesting...