Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism is a citizen who accidentally collects the information and bright up the idea to assist the media company regarding recent activities. Citizen journalism is the people who like to prove their self as an innovative people.

The fascinating thing about citizen journalism is people can spontaneously or deliberately be journalist when the accident happens such as tsunami, earthquake, or vehicle accident. By using their cellphone or their camera to record it and upload the information or the video to media technology such as via Facebook, You tube or Email. The people without proper journalism training can be challenging to professional Journalism because sometimes they can give audience high quality news.

Millions of people around the world can contributing information to the news, would be an amazing feat of technology. It seems like a good idea, but the reality of citizen journalism is that not everyone can be journalist. Ordinary citizen are not trained to be good the journalist and their work can often be prejudiced and their be can be inaccurate. Sometimes the way this people tell the information not professional as a professional journalist.

This is the video record from Indonesia Citizen when the earthquake in Padang 2009(West Sumatra) happens. The video was catch before the professional reporter has a chance to get the video. The condition from this video help People know the fact of this disaster. It also give information to Indonesia Government to move fast to help the victim.



In addition Citizen Journalism is the great way for people to explore they respond about the information or news. The participation of the citizen journalism prove that people has they right to involve in Media Information. On the other hand the development technology offering the citizen to show they right trough comment, video or the picture to media Technology such as You tube or Facebook.