OhmyNews: Journalists aren’t some exotic species
Every citizen’s a reporter. Journalists aren’t some exotic species, they’re everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share them with others.
That’s one paragraph in a declaration posted four years ago at OhmyNews, the South Korean online news site which today claims it has some 30,000 citizens reporters writing for it.
The declaration added:
We are not just reforming the culture of the Korean media, we are drawing a new line in the history of the world press. We’re changing the world press basic understanding of how the news is done.
