Citizen-paparazzi: "The important events of the future will be documented by amateur photographers"

While professional paparazzi have long been the bane of celebrity existence, now the amateurs, armed with nothing more than a camera phone, stalk and shoot thier celebrity-prey with the same accuracy as their professional counterparts.

Reader-reporters are everywhere and their images are showing up in print with increasing frequency.

The New York Times covers this emerging trend in reader-generated photographs in this story.