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Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism
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Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism

by Stephen Quinn, Stephen Lamble
July 2012
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
6h 20m
English
Routledge
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Citizen Journalism and Audience-Generated Content

The first issue we need to discuss is a defintion of the terms that start this chapter. Citizen journalism is a broad term whose meaning is still shifting. We will be quite specific. It occurs in two forms. The first is when members of the public, who are not professional journalists, contribute content that is published on traditional media. This form of citizen journalism reflects one of the basic rules of media known as media-morphosis. New media do not replace old media. Traditional media change to absorb the best of new media (Fidler 1997). This form of citizen journalism includes things like publication of photographs or video taken by amateurs who happened to be at the right place at ...

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