WHO IS A
JOURNALIST AND A CITIZEN JOURNALIST?
A Professional Journalist in action.
WHO IS A
JOURNALIST? A journalist collects and disseminates information about
current events, people, trends, and issues.
His or her work is acknowledged as journalism. Reporters are one type of
journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in
mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film,
and the internet. Reporters find sources for their work, their reports can be
either spoken or written, and they are often expected to report in the most
objective and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist is a
journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers on magazines.
Depending on the context, the term
journalist also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such
as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers.
Foremost in the minds of most practicing
journalist’s is the issue of maintaining credibility. Professional integrity is
the cornerstone of a journalist’s credibility
CITIZEN
JOURNALIST:
A citizen Journalist in action.
This is a person who practices
journalism without training in the profession. They practice citizen
journalism. Citizen journalism is also known as public participatory,
democratic or street journalism. It is the concept of which members of the
public playing active role in the process of collecting, reporting and
disseminating news/ information. The intent of this information is to provide
independent, reliable, accurate, wide range of relevant information which a democracy
required.
Citizen journalism shouldn’t be
confused with community journalism or civic journalism which is practiced by
professional journalist. It is a specific form of citizen media as well as user
– generated content. The idea behind citizen journalism is that people won’t go
through journalism training but can use the tool of modern technology from the
internet to create augment or fact - check media on their own. E.g. you might
write about a city council meeting on your blog or in your on – line forum. You
can snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post
it on your sight as U – tube. According to John Rosen, Citizen Journalist, the
people formerly known audience who were on the receiving end of media system
which ran one way, whit high entry fees and a few firm competing to speak is
looking while the rest of the population listen in isolation whit one another
and who today are in a situation like that at all.
According to Mark Glaser many eye
witnesses account of the terrorist attack on the world trade center come from
citizen journalist. Images and stories from citizen journalist close to the
World Trade Center offered correct information and played a major role in the
story.
CRITICISM: Citizen Journalist may be
an activist within a community they write about. This has drawn some criticism
form the traditional media institution. Many traditional journalist view
citizen journalist with some scaptism. They believe only trained journalist can
understand the ethics in reporting news.
.References:http//Wikipedia.org/wiki/journalist
.http//Wikipedia.org/wiki citizen
_journalism
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