Citizen Journalism
NewsMeBack wants to congratulate our friends from Stroome.com on receiving great award from Knight Foundation. Stroome showed their value as a citizen journalism platform and their rising importance in media world. All this was finally confirmed with 200 000$ when Stroome became one of the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Creating interesting and helpful place
It finally started. Excitement, thrill, cheering and competition. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Johannesburg became world sports center and many eyes are pointed in Africa now. Wonderful working place for citizen journalists. Like in Vancouver, now live from Africa, Johannesburg. Citizen journalism already showed capability and capacity and now will do it all again.
In every carrier you have risks. Maybe you’ll think less of some profession, but be sure that there is a challenge in every profession you can think of. When you compare two carriers, for example, police officer and doctor, you will always first say policeman has bigger professional risk and you’ll may be right. But,
Fwix like a representative of new citizen media and The New York Times Company as a representative of old or traditional media made an agreement to work together. Fwix, the real-time local newswire, which has 2 years experience in this area will start to distribute its content through all The New York Times properties. This
JanJan news started in 2003 and did great job in giving information and news different from other media, thanks to citizens and contributors. After 7 years they are closing. As we can see nothing can work without money. Not even citizen journalism. Good will, people, sources and hard work aren’t enough in this world. Crisis
