There’s been a lot of talk about citizen journalism. Steve Rubel talks about it a lot, as does Poynter and others. Cyber Journalism has a list of them.
But, likely one of the oldest (if not the oldest) truely citizen journalist site around is www.ohmynews.com. The SF Chronicle has a great piece on it in Sunday’s paper.
Nothing but news from “citizen reporters” across South Korea, and even outside the country. Yes, South Korea. Not the the U.S.
According to the story, the site very much has an “us vs. them” attitude:
“‘So here we hoist our flag and declare war on the old media system. … We are overthrowing the basic principles of news reporting, which for many years has been taken for granted by many of the world’s newspapers,’ declares one of the company’s brochures.”
The site, which pays for submitted stories (about 2 in 3 are accepted) generates revenue from ads (70 percent), syndicated sales and premium contents.
Wonder when the first one will be nearly as successful here in the states?
– Mike
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