Social media has given citizen journalists more opportunity than ever before to source and distribute their work. Even in countries where as little as six per cent of the population have access to the internet, and even fewer use social media, online citizen journalism has prevailed.
News and links from around the internet focussing on citizen journalism. Curated by @ukcameraman
Tuesday 14 April 2015
News, mobile and citizen journalism in Afghanistan
Thursday 9 April 2015
Drone footage and citizen journalism.
If livestreaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat are going to change the news industry in a similar way Twitter did—by allowing whoever happens to be near a news event to become a de facto journalist—imagine what happens when you put an internet-connected, live streaming camera in the sky.
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