Grassroots journalism, networked journalism, open source journalism, citizen media, participatory journalism, hyper local journalism, stand-alone journalism, public journalism, democratic journalism, street journalism. Name aside, we all know what it is. Citizen journalism is definitely new phenomenon. But also definitely not so young or new. It started in US and made its path for a long …
In every good thing always must be at least one small not so good thing. I think that in whole world there are daily more than 10 events who are worth to be mentioned. But seems like people are either too lazy or too indifferent or too busy to write about them. And when I …
I don’t know why journalists feel citizen journalists like a threat? It should be opposite. Because journalists have on their side professionalism, experience, more money, big corporations and companies, whole organization. So why do they think that citizen journalism is something wrong? There is no one good reason for it, especially since the crisis in …
Some good news for citizen journalism. One, if not the first, purchase of citizen journalism site. And for some serious money. For citizen journalism sites $25 million is serious money. But most of all I am glad that someone finds citizen journalism enough interesting to buy one of most popular sites - NowPublic.com. NowPublic.com started …
Citizen journalism is like a citizen surgery?! Is there some other anti citizen journalism reason? Because this became boring. Wherever I see some discussion about citizen journalism all I can find against it is citizen surgery or citizen dentist and similar stuff. Is this all they can think of? All evidence and reasons why citizen …