Citizen Journalism

Citizen journalism can also be known as public journalism, participatory journalism, democratic journalism or street journalism. The concept of citizen journalism is so that any member of the public can play an active role to form citizen media by processing, collection, reporting, analyzing and distributing news and information. Citizen journalism is useful as members participate by having a voice to provide independent, reliable, accurate and relevant information and facts in news that the public deserves with out being a professional journalist.

 

The way citizen journalism works is mainly from the use of new technology as a person from the public can capture information or evidence to create factual media on their own or in collaboration with a group and then distribute the information onto the internet for the public to see. Most citizen journalism can be viewed on the internet on websites like blogs, Youtube, Facebook or chat forums where people have posted captured images, videos or articles. The public can have their say by responding and commenting posts with their opinions

 

Citizen journalism is so popular as people have instant access to view real information that has been posted with out censorship or distortion on the video or image. However the problem with citizen journalism is that it may infringe upon laws or be too explicit for certain groups of the public.