OhmyNews Starts Citizen Journalism: Theory and Practice
OhmyNews is starting a new initiative addressing the theory and practice of citizen journalism and you are invited to participate. Hong Eun-taek, OhmyNews International editor-in-chief, writes of citizen journalism:
The concept itself is not hard to understand; rather, it is its execution that is less than easy. Thus there are few successful citizen journalism sites. And for that reason we are launching a new section. We’d like to share what we have experienced and learned from our operation. Our new section “Citizen Journalism: Theory and Practice,” we hope, will be a kind of teahouse for citizens to gather and freely discuss citizen journalism and share their own experiences with each other.
We would like to serve as a kind of host. Please let us know how we can improve citizen journalism and, ultimately, better serve citizens’ interests. Your coming and partaking will be greatly appreciated.
He adds:
We believe news is something that is made, not only by a George W. Bush or a Bill Gates but, more importantly, by people who are all allowed to think together. The news is a form of collective thinking. It is the ideas and minds of the people that are changing the world, when they are heard.
