Citizen journalism also known as "public", "participatory", "democratic", "guerrilla" or "street journalism" is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information, The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. For example, you might write about a city council meeting on your blog or in an on line forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it on line. Or you might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as You Tube.
The seminar at Jinnah University
He lectured on Citizen Journalism. According to him Citizen Journalism is powerful but manipulated”.Furthermore he made the start of his speech by giving some examples on citizen journalism. He stated the following definition:
“The people who are audience they used the tool of journalist”
(Owais Mangalwala)
He highlighted the points on citizen journalist & describes the four types of it:
Sharing of experience Sharing of opinion Sharing of discovery Sharing of expertiseThe journalist must have an ability to differentiate between the news and noise & also know how to filter it. He mentions the 14 points on how the citizen journalist report could be successful.
Necessity to b real How to report Events are all around us, don't wait for something special Write your own point of view
Don't think that your report is boring Describe to a limited extent Accuracy is the key Usage of correct grammar & vocab Avoid copy and paste Follow code of conduct Must know about news writing Feedback Make a rule for your own self Keep your eyes open ,reporters are all around usAfter completing his lecture, he welcome to our beloved Miss Humera, she boots thanks to him for sharing his personal experience and knowledge with the students. At last the discussion on morning show of Maira “Mast Mornings” which telecast on DAWN channel was shared with the students .As the lecture end some pouches were distributed among the students by dawn member. Now the students of Mass Communication are fully aware that what citizen journalism actually is.
