OhmyNews and Citizen Journalism
Response to ‘OhmyNews in South Korea’ – WEEK 5
In this week’s reading, director of OhmyNews International Jean Min makes an interesting statement about how OhmyNews tries to combine traditional journalism with citizen journalism. This comment alludes to the issue of how, no matter where the future of media is headed, new developments will always be based on what has preceded them.
Citizen journalism would not have been possible without the journalism that came before it. New visions and developments come about from a desire to do things differently than they are being done already, and to improve the journalism we have.
Other industries work in the same way, such as the automotive industry. A new model of a particular car may be brought out every few years, and it will have the same elements at its core, but a different look and feel, as well as some added features.
Journalism works in this way too, and will continue to it seems because media organisations and their consumers will always be striving to do things faster, better, and differently.
Read Poynter Online’s article about ‘The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism’: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126
It’s a few years old, but still worth a read.
For a look at the citizen journalism situation in China, read this ABC article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/26/1962255.htm
(Video taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaVzMA8-pcI)
