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Blog 9                       

                         Citizen Journalism

                     News delivery now can start from your comfort, and it can be you!

 News and information by the public is known as citizen journalism. This has grown over the years with the ease of spreading and accessing information online. This is conducted by people who aren't professional journalists but disseminate information using the websites. Choosing their own style and their own way of spreading the news.

     Journalism produces reposts of news and information with different new qualities and values: 

Timeliness, proximity, nature, oddity, Human interest, conflicts, Impact, Helpfulness, Celebrities, and entertainment.

 

 Being a citizen of Journalism has its benefits and its negatives.  As a Citizen Journalists you are able to spread the information to locals and the world, giving you the opportunity to talk about issues that people might not be aware of, by doing this, you have a responsibility of spreading newsworthy information.

    Citizen journalism can focus on a specific topic and new qualities of their interest. With the growth on Social media through different platforms and the gaining of users,algorithm in social media can become an advantage for those already using your social media to raise awareness on the issues important to you or passions that you follow.

    Most Citizen Journalism that has built a big platform tends to focus on a target market on which they focus the most values and the qualities of the news that you can do can be broad, with celebrity or entertainment focusing on sports news, and it could even be gossip that's happening around celebrities, influencers, or musicians. But if you have other values as making sure and spreading awareness and letting people be aware of conflicts and impacts that are happening in proximity around the world, you could have the ability to do so too.

    Since Citizen journalism is based on online news, there could be much more interaction with the public, where you could do a journalist Poll, chats, questions, and promo with the viewer. 

    As a citizen journalist, you should be aware that everyone can access it whenever, wherever, so it's really important that your work is reliable. Have factual sources and be prepared to answer some doubts of the audience. By being in the public eyes, citizen journalism has provided an alternative to traditional news media, often filling gaps in coverage and offering perspectives not represented in mainstream reporting.

    The impact that Citizen journalism had created ‘‘There is a trend among study respondents that citizen journalism can undermine social and political control over media content. This is related to their belief that citizen journalism plays an important role in the fight for information accessibility and freedom of expression.’’

    I think in the future Citizen Journalism is going be a massive part of the future media industry; with the wave of users constantly growing with the technology in hand im my honest opinion, this could affect the point of view and perspective in the audience, with a huge impact in society.

    With the influence of trends on apps like Instagram, TikTok, an Twitter, people may start being a citizen journalists for fun and not as a profession. By this, the misinformation that could be circulating the internet could be big if not taken seriously.

That's why I encourage you to become a trustworthy citizen of journalism where not only you're an influence and opinion, but a journalist with value and structure.