Citizen journalism is becoming a huge part of the essential information gathering for our news. It's also known as public and participatory journalism. But, before we get in to the nitty-gritty of what is citizen journalism, let's examine how our broadcast news worked before the advent of public participation.
Before the creation of affordable video-cameras, picture and video-enabled mobile phones, and digital camera etc. the news was gathered and distributed by the corporations such as the BBC, ITN and Sky.
News crews, particularly for television, were never feasibly at the scene when something newsworthy happened, unless they were very lucky and were there by chance. It is because of this that there was always a delay between the actual event and the transmission of pictures on the news. Crews had to be sent out from the studio, get to the action, shoot it and then send it back to be edited and ultimately broadcast; a rather lengthy, time-consuming procedure.
This does still happen of course, but now the public are far more involved.
It is fair to say that when any news event happens, someone is going to be an onlooker.
This is what citizen journalism is all about, the onlooker becoming the informer, and this is what we will be discussing...
For now, just to give you a taste of what we're talking about, please click the following link to see a piece of footage which was made by a citizen journalist and used as an integral part of a BBC report on the 7/7 london bombings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhBdHc8Nqs
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