Citizen journalism

What is PRFM actually doing by facilitating the formation of Netizen Photo PRFM Community? Does PRFM still function as mass media, since conventional theories do not say that mass media need to be a community moderator like what PRFM is doing? According to Patria, from the beginning PRFM always prefer to be a medium amongst people so it could make significant social changes. PRFM already considered that the one-way practice as the conventional mass media do is no longer effective to make…

than ever, but the demand for scandal and controversy also seems to be increasing more rapidly. I can understand why stories about celebrities may appeal to journalists and the public alike – it’s hard to ignore a good scandal. However celebrity journalism can be a little more threatening than just keeping up on Kim Kardashian’s latest nude selfie-scandal – beneath the surface lies something a little more sinister – the issue of placing celebrity spin in non-celebrity news. Using celebrity…

editor in the article ¨Foreign News at a Crisis Point,¨ asserts that foreign journalism needs to adjust .The author’s purpose was to convince foreign news policy change in order to provide accurate news. Goodman asserts an urgent tone in order to appeal to his audience’s sense of value for global news. Supporting his claim, Mr.Goodman first defines the crisis of the situation, illustrated the needs for modification in journalism and finally demonstrated the immediate need for reliable news.…

Rake the Muck What is Muck Throughout history there have always been events that caused an uprising from the people. During the Progressive Era these events included yellow journalism. Yellow journalism is defined as a type of reporting that includes obscene exaggeration. The journalists responsible for yellow journalism are muckrakers. This term was coined by Theodore Roosevelt and can be described as journalists that focus on the ‘muck’, or bad parts, of society and publish it so the public is…

THESIS Pictures that are impactful, timely and contribute significant news value cannot be discounted due to their violent nature. Shocking and violent photographs have the power to garner public interest and provoke social change. Patt Blue from the International Center of Photography writes, “reality is not a framed and frozen image - it is chaos, loud, dirty, and grossly disorganized” and so we should expect our news photography to properly showcase that. While many aspiring journalists drift…

empirical evidence lends very little support to the suggestion that there is a linear and continuous trend from serious informative coverage of society towards a more light weight journalism geared to maximum ratings” (Djerf-Pierre 2000 cited in Winston,…

the tweets which include news content, the posts of comments and UGC are all related to citizen journalism. Such kind of contents generated by citizens can be included in mainstream media coverage (Kurtz, 2003), assisted by reliable verification procedures that are used to…

websites and the interaction with the online audience on those sites. This is because of the relationship between UGC and interactivity (Thurman, Forums for citizen journalists? Adoption of user generated content initiatives by online news media, 2008). Community media has used UGC as a way of interacting with the audience (Thurman, Forums for citizen journalists? Adoption of user generated content initiatives by online news media, 2008). It is unclear how media companies are making the…

Of course, the nature of the events has changed but, when Jack the Ripper was such a terror invoking topic for the citizens of London in the late 1880s, criminologists quickly became aware of the impact that coverage of the events had. This occurrence of replicated crimes being committed around the time frames of popular serial killers continued into the early 1990s.…

Ownerships exist in all types of businesses, including the newspaper industry. Concentrated ownership in the field of newspapers can be defined as the extreme control of a newspaper firm by the insiders (manager, BOD, etc.) Ownerships have been changing significantly for more than 60 years in Canada and has been effecting the Canadian society as a whole. The journals and articles by Kelly Blidook, Joseph Jackson, Minelle Mahtani, David Skinner, Water Soderlund are relevant and useful to the…