What is citizen journalists

With the development of online – web 3.0 and digital skills, many people use blog to publish their report and opinions on websites, and they can share the content to others. The citizen journalist affects professional journalist and media industry. This essay will talk about the citizen journalist and new online strategy.

Citizen Journalism is an evolving form of journalism through user generated content. (http://www.merinews.co/, 2009) The citizen journalists living in all sectors of society, so they have the ability to record what happened in the society. Citizen journalist expresses things around them or in this society. They often use digital platforms, like blog, Facebook, Twitter to publish the articles.

As a complement of mass media, citizen journalist in order to provide more media source, and interact with the mass media. Citizen journalists offer inexhaustible "source." for traditional media. In general, the mass media has its own dedicated team of professional journalists, but the power of professional journalists are limited, and any advanced technologies can not guarantee that professional journalists can record everything. The citizen journalist can make up for the lack of mass media resource.

Reference: http://www.eywedu.com/Zgbj/zgbi2006/zgbi20060511.html

http://www.merinews.com/citizen_journalism.jsp

Allan & Thorsen (2009),. In citizen Journalism , Peter Lang, New York