Ishita Bamnawat
Citizen journalism is conducted by people who are not professional journalists but who share information using websites, blogs , posts on different social platforms . It was started in South Korea when an online entrepreneur oh yeon – ho declared that “ every citizen is a reporter “ in 2000 , then with three other South Korean colleagues started an online daily newspaper , ohmy news a website that used volunteers to generate its content because they were dissatisfied with traditional South Korean press .
It has played a major role in 21 century , Twitter is a major platform for citizen journalism
Some of its benefits are – • it provide a platform to individuals and to be considered globally
• it also reports on local government actions , neighbourhood events
Disadvantage – • facts are not checked hence false reporting is done on wide level
• it is able to harm any individual or community
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