Citizen journalists

Arguably the most well-known and popular participatory journalism web site in the world is ohmynews.com, founded by Oh Yeon Ho of South Korea in February 2000. Ohmynews.com has more than 42,000 registered citizen journalists and 95 fiill-time staff [12]. Editors review and post hundreds of articles a day written by the citizen journalists. The most carefully edited articles are located prominently on the page. The articles that have not been edited yet are featured less prominently on the page [13]. From February 2005 through July 2005 ohmynews.com had anywhere from about 3 million to about 18 million page views per day [14]. 

The citizen journalist is one who is engaged in participatoiy journalism. Bowman and Willis define this as ... 

Moore M (2008) China earthquake brings out citizen Journalists, http //www.telegiaph.co.uk/news/world ne ws/asia/china/1950212/China-earthquake-taings-out-citizen-Joumalists.html... 

Some terrified citizens in the 1950s and 1960s became newsworthy subjects for journalists and photographers, when they built and equipped their own bomb shelters, filling them with essentials required for lengthy periods of underground survival. The most nervous and wealthy property owners sometimes paid... 

In 1936, science journalist Frank Thone declared to members of the American Association for Adult Education that their fellow citizens were as eager as St. Paul s Athenians to hear some new thing about science but they preferred flexibility to pontification. His explication foreshadowed today s world of ubiquitous, portable communications devices ... 

With low credibihty and with no real threats against the Norwegian society, some claimed that such a wide risk landscape invited to even more monitoring of Norwegian citizens, and this could cause a democratic problem because terrorists could be whoever POT wants it to be (Firm Sjue, Journalist... 

There is no time to think a response is needed, and without delay. Political control comes to depend on the media and their priorities. Journalists are regarded as the voice of the disgruntled citizens (...) They set the tone for the pohtical agenda and (subsequendy) for governance in action (Annual report of the Council of State 2003 18, with the consent of person quoted in Rob 2011 18). 

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