The concept of citizen journalism (also known as "public", "participatory", "democratic", "guerrilla" or "street" journalism) is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information." Citizen journalism should not be confused with community journalism or civic journalism, both of which are practiced by professional journalists. Citizen journalism is a specific form of both citizen media and user generated content.
2. journalists are losing their jobs, as what they usually do for a living is being taken over by this ugc which shows more reliable and more accessible information which may not be shown by real jurnalists so sooner or later they wont really be needed as much.
3. In Ferguson, Missouri this week, the public has turned the notion of “see something, say something” back on the state, via a digital tool of enormous power: online pictures and video. Their efforts – which began days before reporters descended when Twitter user @TheePharaoh posted pictures immediately after a police officer killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown – have helped bring international attention to both Brown’s death and law enforcement’s disproportionate response to the ensuing protests. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/16/fergusons-citizen-journalists-video
4. The nominated stories paint an intimate portrait of the topics and events that dominated the news cycle last year. A 10-year-old boy describes what it's like to live with autism. Beautiful photographs capture the sense of wonder among a crowd watching a Mars Curiosity rover broadcast. A personal essay recounts the horror of escaping the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater where a mass shooting took place.
5. People around the world posted more than 100,000 stories on CNNiReport.com last year. Out of that, 10,789 were vetted for CNN, which means they were fact-checked and approved to be broadcast on CNN TV or featured on CNN.com. And over the past few months, the iReport team and a panel of CNN producers sorted through all those stories to select 36 nominees in six categories: Breaking News, Original Reporting, Compelling Imagery, Personal Story, Commentary and, new this year, In-depth Storytelling.
6. In the eight months since the Patriots last won the Super Bowl, the New England fandom has endured the worst winter in recorded history, an accidental Olympics, an Associates degree in labor and arbitration law, and an avant-garde artistic rendering of Tom Brady after being hit in the face with a tire iron (now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts). It all started with the release of an honest, fair and
balanced. http://www.litterareport.com/_st884d247c6f65a96a7da4d1105d584ddd
7.Popular examples of citizen journalism breaching the mainstream media on an international and national field include the Arab spring uprising, the Occupy movement or the commentary in the blogosphere that tracked the summer riots in the UK. The influence can also be felt at a local level, where there are numerous examples of community blogging sites reporting on causes and campaigns, a role formerly championed by a local press now heavily in decline ii. From both the formal and informal interpretations of Citizen Journalism, one message seems to come through more clearly than others: the relationship to news.
8. An asylum seeker fighting for their right to stay in a country, challenging a court decision or arguing injustice, is a news story. There is human interest and a clear trajectory of beginning, middle and end; they arrived, there was a ruling, there will be a final outcome. The news story will end when they are either deported or gain leave to remain. Community Reporting however is more interested in all the other stories that make up the person at the centre of the news…and to give them the tools and the platform to share those stories.
9. For some campaigners, there is an important issue here about the freedoms we should have the right to exercise without being policed by ‘Big Brother’. And whilst that is an interesting arena for all who create and share user-generated content, we take a different stance when it comes to our Community Reporters. As part of the standards monitored by the Institute of Community Reporters we issue badges to reporters, as mentioned above. In order to receive the badge, all reporters must go through training around Best Practice guidelines.
10. Additionally, the live chase for the men guilty of the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013 saw news channels relying heavily upon the updates of citizens living in the area to establish what was happening. This was captured through videos, pictures, tweets, skype calls, blogs and many more mediums. Even the 6-second video app, Vine, is being used to upload news footage from the scene:
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