Citizen Journalism is known as a public or participatory journalism, where regular citizens play a paramount and active role in collecting, reporting, analyzing, distributing and disseminating news and information. It is considered an independent of way of sharing your point of views on the topic to the general public, in other words providing a voice for yourself.
Although Citizen journalism is practiced by many individuals it is not to be mixed with civic journalism, which is practiced by the more professional journalists. Describing more specifically, Citizen journalism is a form of citizen media, which is also known as User Generated Content. Also it is criticized to be occasionally inaccurate it is still a good source to obtain basic and general information about the topic.
The main idea behind the popularity of Citizen journalism is that it is able to able to let the average person to speak form themselves without professional journalism training and the latest of modern technology. A definition of Citizen journalism is professionally summarized by Jay Rosen “When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism”.
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Camped, hiked, and swam at Arroyo Seco, Los Padres National Forest last
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