Germany
Our one month trip to Germany is over. As every visit to another country it was positive and brought many new experiences and new information. Some would say expanding horizons. As for us, it was complete. We accomplished our plan, connected with other citizen journalism websites and spoke with ordinary citizens about citizen media. Regarding
After 20 and something days and many many photos we uploaded on Twitpic we decided to share our thoughts and impressions with you. Well in general we are delighted and got more than we expected from this visit. We are based in Dusseldorf but we made contacts with people from Berlin, Augsburg, Munich, Leipzig… And
Regarding our visit to Germany and our mission, goal and wish to explore and find out more about citizen journalism here we had good luck. We made some contacts and spoke to some interesting people. Our first interview is with one of citizen journalism pioneers here in Germany Michael Maier from Readers Edition Many thanks
In Germany citizen journalism is called Graswurzel-Journalismus or Burger-Journalismus. Citizen or Burger, NewsMeBack is interested. So, if everything goes well we (NewsMeBack team) will travel to Germany Sunday morning. Since this is our first time, we hope we’ll have both, luck and brains, and that besides many many extraordinary beautiful places we will find people
