You have to be a bit of an news or internet geek or to have travelled to know about OhMyNews, a very successful citizen journalism site in Korea.
They publish in english and are planning to move into the Japanese market.
Ronda Hauben is co-author of ‘Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet’ available online. She dissects Samuel Freedman’s CBS Public Eye’s look at citizen media in this article.
While there is no doubt citizen journalism is expanding, and has shown it’s value in many countries, I’m not convinced it’s going to be read much in North America, or growth is going to remain slow. I don’t think for all the grumbling readers are moving much out of their comfort zones.
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I disagree strongly. Traditional media consumption habits are changing, primarily because younger demographic groups are seeking out news and information from alternative sources. Note that I said consumption habits are *changing*, not disappearing. The MSM will continue to play an important role. However, as blogs and camphones have already shown us, there is an emerging importance for this kind of citizen journalism. The most successful MSM will be those entities that move to embrace CJ as an extension of their traditional newsgathering models. CJ should, and I believe will be viewed as a critically important way of connecting with the public, who are afterall the MSM’s customers.
Visit http://www.nextnews.org for detailed information about Citizen Journalism.
Nice blog Neal!:^)
I think on local levels it has caught on more, but on national levels people talk more about it than buckle down to the hard work of doing it.
And if there is no return (ie: financial, traffic; bloggers for example seem less inclined to take time out of busy schedules and participate) Breaking information on a story occasionally is certainly a form of citizen journalism, but far from all it is. I think as traditional media shifts content delivery we may see a bit more, the need in some places just may not be there.
Here are some citizen journalism tips that might interest you:
http://www.speroforum.com/wiki/default.aspx/SperoWiki/IdeaToArticleIndex.html