Citizen Journalist is when the audience are able to use new media technologies such as laptops, phones etc so people can catch live and exclusive footage on the news.
One of the first examples of news being generated by 'ordinary people' was through the use of video cameras in 1991. After being captured by the police following a high speed chase, Rodney King, an African-American was surrounded by police officers, who tasered him and beat him with clubs. The event was filmed by George Holliday, an onlooker from his apartment window. The home-video footage made prime-time news and became an international media sensation, and a focus for complaints about police racism towards African-Americans.
Message boards
Chat rooms,
Q&A, polls,
Have your says
Blogs with comments enabled (allow audience feedback and responses to news stories)
Social media sites (Bebo, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook).
UGC sites to access news: Wikipedia news, Google news and YouTube score highly in terms of where people go to get their news
A gatekeeper is a news organisation that decides which content provided by citizen journalists can be shown whether its appropriate or not.. in other words they're job is to filter the content for publication.
The role of the gatekeeper has changed as people who didn't have a voice before now do..such as youths, low income groups and other minorities.
one of the main concerns is the in the future future there will be fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’ Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated.
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