Wired News: Citizen Reporters Make the News
Posted 21/05/2003 under
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“citizen journalism” .... hmm and they get paid for it?? Its just a pity that I can’t read Korean so that I can judge the value of such reporting for myself. It has been running for three years now and has a staff of 40 producing over 200 stories a day but with the majority of the reporting being undertaken by about 26,000 registered citizen journalists.
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In the West, people with a journalistic bent turn to weblogs to exercise the urge to publish news or comment on events of the day.
But in South Korea, the publishing instinct is directed toward a big, collaborative online newspaper that has emerged as one of the country’s most influential media outlets.
OhmyNews is a unique experiment in “citizen journalism”: Anyone who registers with the site can become a paid reporter.
“With OhmyNews, we wanted to say goodbye to 20th-century journalism where people only saw things through the eyes of the mainstream, conservative media,” said editor and founder, Oh Yeon-ho. “Our main concept is every citizen can be a reporter. We put everything out there and people judge the truth for themselves.”