Citizen Journalism

In class comm315, production skills the main topic of study that we are focused on at the moment is citizen journalism. This blog provides an understanding on what citizen journalism is.

So what is citizen journalism? From my understanding citizen journalism is individuals with no previous journalistic experience and with no professional journalism training can use the tools of the internet and modern technology to create a reason or an in depth analysis of facts in the media. This can also be in association with others information and analysis.
Citizen journalism can also be a regarded as community news as information online with contributions written by users and readers. Basically citizen journalism can be as simple as an everyday individual taking a photo of a media worthy event or happening and distribute it as news.
There are many professional journalists that aren’t the biggest fans of citizen journalism itself because its viewed as a threat to professional journalism. Many journalists have spent years learning and analysing the art of journalism and are not ready to accept information ad analysis from citizen journalists. Another reason why they are viewed as threatening is because they make obvious the bias in other network news and professional reporter news.