Citizen Journalism has taken the world by storm and appears to be continuing to grow in size and popularity. This is for a number of reasons, however none more so appealing than the fact that it offers people around the world a chance to report on stories that not only are seen as important to them but also stories in which they are interested in.
This appeal also works to the audience as Citizen journalism offers a larger and more diverse range of news topics and mediums to view news information. Whether it be through photography, videos or even blogs citizen journalism can cover stories from the insignificant to the controversial.
Citizen Journalism also offers the ability for these stories to break faster as witnesses can be on hand to take photos of events and have a first hand perspective on what is unfolding. This has its advantages to the public with information being accessible at a faster rate. And not only is it fast but unlike Professional Journalism its raw news, news that isn’t censored.
It is for these reasons that Citizen Journalism has increased in the era of Web 2.0. The ability to access breaking and uncensored news from around the world as the events happens is the key reason that Citizen Journalism is so successful and why I feel that it will continue to grow in the future.
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Oj what you've said is about why citizen journalism is popular is true but you missed one other point which i think is important to address is that the popularity of citizen journalism is so high is because its free. This allows for anyone with access to a computer and the internet to essentially be a journalist.
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