Citizen Media or Citizen Journalism initiatives from your region ?
Wikipedia (US & worldwide), Slashdot (US), OhMyNews(Korea) and many more citizen journalism or media initiatives are now quite mainstream and competing with MSM. Do you know of any successful examples of such citizen journalism/media initiatives from your city, region or country. You can also cite the examples which are still in making and are potential candidates.
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Jeroen B
Business Development Director at Universal Music Group International
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Hi Santosh,
In the Netherlands we have www.skoeps.nl which was setup by a large online/TV company and a newspaper publisher... People can post their news together with pictures or video. If the picture gets used, they get paid.
Also, there is www.nujij.nl. This is not really citizen journalism, it's more a public opinion website where users can submit their opinion about what happens in the news...
www.fok.nl is a website that has news solely submitted by users. Most of the time these users post news from other websites. However, in some cases, the users spot events before main stream media (fires, accidents, etc) and the news is posted to their site. Also, users post updates to ongoing news if they happen to be close by.
Best,
Jeroen
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Kamil D
Experienced interactive marketing consultant and contractor, Head of Interactive Marketing at Heureka
Hi, please find below some links to Polish citizen journalism sites:
http://www.ithink.pl/
http://www.reporterzy.pl/
http://www.wiadomosci24.pl/
http://interia360.pl/
http://publikuj.net/
Kamil
There are several citizen radio stations over here in Austria,
Radio Orange 94,0 --> http://www.o94.at/
Radio Helsinki (it has nothing to do with the Finnish capital) --> http://www.helsinki.at/
Both will provide streams of their FM radio programme, O94 also has an archive.
Similar to free radios, there are free network initiatives:
http://www.funkfeuer.at/
Their goal is to create free network infrastructure in cities using WLAN and other free transport media, allowing users to host web servers, streams, whatever content they desire. This way, everyone can become a media producer. It's not just "free Internet" as in "free beer" - it's also "free speech", because consumer offerings of large ISPs won't allow any server services, and business offerings are off limits for private individuals because of their cost structure.
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In France, there are two citizen journalism initiatives : Agoravox (www.agoravox.fr) and Rue 89 (www.rue89.com). The second one was founded by former journalists, some of them were working for "Libération" (a french national newspaper)
Michele N
CEO, Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
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There have been a couple of ones surrounding specific events, such as http://www.irishelection.com, which covered the last Irish national election
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These tend to be focussed on a niche area for a very specific audience. WikiNews is a good worldwide one, otherwise you have the likes of Indymedia that has sites for several countries worldwide.
I did my dissertation on a very similar subject, if you're studying the subject you're more than welcome to have a wee look at it! :)
Sunil A
Director (Policy) Centre for Internet and Society
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Not sure if The Hoot qualifies as citizen journalism. maybe citizen meta-journalism. And there is Jeff Ooi who has made the Malaysian MSM worry.
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Stephan P
Owner, Pernau PR Internal Communications, Coach and Organizational Management Consultant
www.tagesspiegel.de; www.nzz.ch
Tom F
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Santosh:
I'm a mainstream journalist who's all in favor of citizen media initiatives, but what I mainly see in my region of the US is newspapers giving readers the unfiltered opportunity to comment on news stories they've read. Which basically creates a forum for anonymous trolls to slag anything or anyone they don't like. It's like on-screen road rage, where people write things they'd never say to someone face-to-face. Not the best use of the medium, and I hope better days are coming.
best,
Tom
In Argentina there is Igooh
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Cyberjournalist.net has a fairly good list of citizen journalism initiatives:
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php
It includes both mainstream media ventures and the private, independent ventures. I used that list when I completed research for my thesis on citizen journalism.
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http://www.broowaha.com is a network of citizen newspapers with editions in several U.S. cities. An expansion to other countries is scheduled for the near future.
