A Dissertation Topic: How to Make Citizen Journalism Effective

Citizen journalism is one of the most popular types of journalism these days. It is the concept of allowing the public to participate in news gathering and news reporting. It allows the public to take an active role in the whole news gathering process, from collecting news information to disseminating it.

Citizen journalism is indeed a good way not just to continuously keep an eye against unlawful acts, but as well as the benefit that it creates a good relationship between the news reporters and the public. Thus, making sure that not a single mistake is being or will be committed.

Moreover, there are several ways to make citizen journalism effective. There's the different medium available, which include the phenomenal, world wide web. Among these ways are as follows:

1.Making public comment available for both print and broadcast media.
2.Recruit citizen add-on contributions (also for pint and broadcast media).
3.Consider "open-source" or "participatory" journalism or reporting.
4.The phenomenal citizen bloghouse.
5.Transparent blogs in the citizen's newsroom.
6.Giving birth to an edited, stand-alone citizen-journalism Web site.
7.The advent of an unedited, stand-alone citizen-journalism Web site.
8.Make a printed version of those that are published in the steps 6 and 7.
9.Create a news organization that is a combination of citizen journalism and the professionals.
10.Integration of both the pros and citizen journalists in one roof to make a firmer foundation.

Author:

Judy B. Pothier, a graduate of journalism, who was born and raised in California, is currently employed as a dissertation adviser in a reputable graduate school. She is twenty-five years old, and a mother of one kid. Judy loves to bake and play around with her kid whenever time allows her to. She also has a great passion for literary writing about essays and thesis papers.