Citizen journalist should first try to prove himself as a truthful by writing about everyday events and ordinary stuff. That way readers will start to trust him and his work will gain importance.

Basically we all know what is scandal or hot topic and everyone wants to write about it. But the trouble with the headlines is that those news come totally unchecked and instantly become problem for citizen journalism. It would be so much better for citizen journalists and citizen journalism followers to develop and write, at least for a while, citizen themes which aren’t so frequent in classical media and when the trust is built than to put himself in the center of hot news.
Because I get the feeling of saturation and too big amount of the same content. We all jump at once when something huge happens and we start to write and chat and tweet only about it. Yes, it’s interesting and you get popularity but only on short terms. Because in a second there are millions and millions of the same things. And then we don’t read it carefully because we have no time.

So I think that if someone likes citizen journalism should first develop his perception, to learn to follow the event, always to be real and to show sympathy for those who deserve it. And the best thing is when his new and unknown to media work later shows to be true. That is the way to gain trust and justify it with real text and not imagination. When your neighborhood trusts you soon good part of the world will, too.

Tags: Citizen journalism, Democracy, news