"Citizen Journalism" is one of those phrases that sounds pretty straightforward, but when you get right down to it, most people aren't entirely sure exactly what it means. Basically, a citizen ...

In the many academic discussions about “citizen journalism,” few consider how it relates to public relations for nonprofits. On Apr. 28, Elizabeth Toledo wrote in PR Week about how citizen journalism ...

Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, to ...

On Thursday, the non-profit investigative journalism outfit ProPublica named Amanda Michel its first “editor of distributed reporting.” Her title alone suggests the future of news gathering, and so ...

When Bangalore residents Subramaniam Vincent and Meera Krishnamoorthy looked around their booming city in 2007, true local news in English was nowhere to be found. Newspapers and online media in the ...

Citizen journalism, like the term ‘wiki”, is a phrase that has been reborn online. But unlike ‘wiki”, which we know translates to ‘fast’in Hawaiian and now refers to websites that anyone can edit, the ...

As a journalist hailing from the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, the epicenter of a violent Maoist insurgency, Shubhranshu Choudhary was regularly confronted with the shortcomings of his profession. The ...

Jim Pettiward explains the origin, meaning and use of the expression 'citizen journalism' and some of its colloquial synonyms. Click below to listen: ‘Citizen journalism’. ‘Citizen journalism’. You ...

In July 2016, elementary school worker Philando Castile’s shooting death by a Minnesota police officer captivated the United States. His girlfriend Diamond Reynolds had pulled out her cell phone at ...

Well, I don’t think so — but Vincent Maher does, and says so in a provocative essay he’s just published. Maher is a teacher of multimedia journalism at the New Media Lab of Rhodes University’s ...