OhMyNews to contributors: Show Me the Money

Korean-based citizen journalism site  OhMyNews has asked its 100,000 contributors to pony up some hard cash, not just more stories, a blog on Forbes has just reported. The posting comes from PlanetSizedBrain,...

Ohmynews Citizen Journalism Forum information

"How can practitioners in citizen journalism balance user participation and editorial accountability? How can citizen journalism foster cross-cultural exchanges and contribute to the vision of a global village as envisioned by Marshall McLuhan? How can we sustain citizen...

OhmyNews hosts the world's citizen journalists

I'm in Seoul right now attending OhmyNew's International Citizen Reporter's Forum.  Although we at NowPublic tend to avoid using the term the crowd here is full of die-hard pro am reporters.  They come...

Florida is to Korea as Texas is to Canada

You heard us, retirees: get out your Kimchi and your Nukes. A map of the United States created by The York Group has broken the GDP of the country into that of each individual state, and compared that GDP to that...

Korean 'citizen journalism' site faces challenges

What keeps citizen-generated news trustworthy? An article that was pointed out to me by Victoria from a link from Drudge, pointing to SFGate.com (deep breath here) reveals an interesting, highly institutional...

Happy Birthday Ohmynews. Ten things about Citizen Journalism from Mr. Oh

Mr. Oh, founder of Ohmynews spoke about user-generated content as Ohmynews celebrated its 7th birthday recently. From the beginning, in 2002 when Ohmynews was only published in Korean and you had to find someone who was reporting about it, I was taken by how citizens...

An Interview with Dan Gillmor

"The Internet is becoming more and more interactive. Thanks to blogs, wikis, citizen newspapers and other Websites there are now many places were users can produce content. These instances have been dubbed Web 3.0. Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 consisted of flat texts, among them the...

Are College News Editors Ready for Digital Age?

"Yesterday I gave a talk to some 50 college student newspaper editors and managers about Reinventing Newspapers. Most had not heard of citizen journalism projects like OhmyNews, Northwest Voice or MyMissourian....

Where Do You Head, Citizen Journalism?

"2006: Two years after the launch of OhmyNews International, different forms of citizen journalism have appeared on the Internet. At OhmyNews' second International Citizen Reporters' Forum, key representatives presented the special characteristics of their forms of...

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