'Every citizen is a reporter'
In a discussion with aspiring media professionals, the issue of citizen journalism on the web came up.
Interesting thought, but like most things www, if you're thinking about it now, someone's already doing it somewhere.
An excerpt from a story in the Mint -
March 30, 2007
OhmyNews is now regarded as South Korea’s most influential news website, competing with conventional media outlets and helping change the concept of journalism not just in South Korea but across the world.
“The citizen journalism pioneered by OhmyNews in South Korea is changing the paradigm of mass communications where media outlets unilaterally set what the news is and feed it to the general public,” said Kim Byoung-Cheol, a journalism professor at Cyber University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. “Now, citizens are both the producers and the consumers of the news. The era of elite journalists monopolising the news is over. Citizen journalism is not a transient phenomenon but a big global trend in line with the blooming democratisation...”
The founder, Oh Yeon-Ho clearly has a motto that literally, is his business - 'Every citizen is a reporter'
Any takes on whether such a concept would work in India?
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