“Citizen journalism” by any other name …

Posted by Lou Thomas on 1 March 2006 at 18:16
Tags: Journalism

Academics, unions and humble reporters can’t quite agree on what to call citizen journalists. The NUJ dub them “witness contributors”, the BBC call punters sent-in efforts “user-generated content” and Wikipedia, who have a helpful, if verbose, explanation of the term, claim some use the term “participatory journalism”.

Whatever your chosen phrase, CJ now has a father.

Steve Yelvington himself is too modest to claim any rights to the phrase but doesn’t seem impressed by the NUJ’s take on the phenomenon.

Tags: Journalism