Week 7 - Response to Content

Is citizen journalism the end of traditional journalism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU5LonkXbCE

There have been controversies whether citizen journalism ends traditonal journalism.
Citizen journalism is improving rather than destroying journalism. The future of both traditional and citizen journalism is the same, just journalism with no preface. Because there is only one difference between them, which are covering and sharing.

A professional journalist assigned to a story will research the issues, talk to the people involved, check the facts and craft the results into a story. Then move on. The job of a journalist is to taste the world, one news bite at a time.

A citizen journalist, however, lives the story. It is neither a passing interest nor something he or she was assigned to investigate. Citizen journalists share a bit of their own lives, rather than taking that quick bite of the world. That, however, does not mean that traditional news organizations cannot be part of the Great Sharing (Bentley, 2008).

To keep a healthy relationship between citizen journalism and traditional journalism, citizen journalism must constantly receive verification of correctness from traditional journalists(Collaboration between citizen and traditional journalism in reporting breaking news, 2011).



Reference:
Bentley, C. H. (2008). Citizen Journalism: Back to the Future? . Retrieved September 13, 2011, from http://citizenjournalism.missouri.edu/researchpapers/bentley_cj_carnegie.pdf


Collaboration between citizen and traditional journalism in reporting breaking news. (2011, May 18). . Retrieved September 13, 2011, from http://www.newsmeback.com/blog/citizen-journalism/collaboration-between-citizen-and-traditional-journalism-in-reporting-breaking-news/