Journalism
By: Lincoln Vigambo
Citizen journalism is basically based on citizens who play a dynamic role in the process of news collection, news reporting, editing news and distribution of news to other public. It’s also clearly noted that citizen journalism does not require professional’s skills for operation.
Citizen journalism is increasingly practised worldwide due to the expansion of the internet, new media technologies, and social media which has granted them a wider space for the practice of this form of journalism, with the rise of media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, it has favoured the practice since there are fewer restrictions in these platforms hence anyone can type and write anything that he or she wants to talk about on media.
Mainstream media where professionals work has a well-designed program put in place and also principles which guides their operation, hence there are some kind of content that as professionals they may not find it easy to disseminate to public due to media ethics. Lack of ethical issues in citizen journalism has favoured the practice, hence the public find trust in citizen journalism as the information that are always omitted in mainstream media are covered by citizen journalists.
Nowadays before mainstream media broadcast news, it’s always noted that the news has already reached the public through citizen journalists since they always get first-hand information from the ground and once they receive it the information is spread out at faster rate through social media. Journalism as
A profession needs to be safeguarded against citizen journalism which seems to gain more popularity hence may take over this profession by coming up with better ways to combat the competition.
As the mainstream media house, there should be a well-designed program that aims to inform the public on the current matters as they happen before they are fed with information from citizen journalists. Mainstream media should always avoid being biased, let them report what happens as they are to avoid mistrust by the citizens which may lead them to depend on citizen journalism as a tool of getting information.
The future of journalism as a profession is still bright, hence there is a need to make it better by putting in place better strategies on how they do operate for the public to gain more trust in them than citizen journalist.
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