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OhmyNews Opens Citizen Journalism School

This from the World Association of Newspapers’s blog:

An abandoned elementary school 90 minutes outside Seoul has been transformed into the new Citizen Journalism School by OhmyNews, AsiaMedia reported Tuesday.

The school will focus on teaching students about user-generated content and citizen journalism, and is designed to hold more than 60,000 citizen reporters.

Curricula includes writing workshops, journalism 101 classes, photojournalism classes and video news gathering classes. For advanced students, classes on interviewing and Internet journalism workshops are offered.

Here is the OhmyNews story.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 10:37 am and is filed under Citizen journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, OhmyNews, Reinventing Journalism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “OhmyNews Opens Citizen Journalism School”

Will Riley Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Is their a citizen journalism school in the U.S.?

If not, we need to design one. We could model it off of the OhmyNews school and the Danish folkeskole.
Leonard Witt Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Hi Will:

At Kennesaw State University we are moving to offer a citizen journalism certificate. Probably in a year or so.

There are places like J-Lab…http://www.j-lab.org/

Let’s keep talking. See you at SoCon08, its a good topic for there.