My understanding of CITIZEN JOURNALISM!

Citizen journalism to me is when members of the public play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. This information can take many forms, from a podcast editorial to a report about a city council meeting on a blog. It can include text, pictures, audio and video. The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires. Furthermore, more eyes and ears ultimately results in a better chance of getting information.

The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others.

A main feature of citizen journalism is that it’s mainly found online. In fact, the emergence of the internet; with blogs, podcasts, streaming videos and other web-related innovations has made citizen journalism possible. The Internet has given average people the ability to transmit information globally. That was a power once reserved for only the very largest media corporations and news agencies.

But not anymore!