Community and Citizen Journalism Midterms
"D ifferentiate citizen journalism and community journalism in only 6-10 sentences. no need to cite references and it has to be originally written by you." In the context of citizen journalism, the citizens plays an active part in partaking in disseminating of news. The only requirement for such is a mobile phone with a camera and an internet access. Sometimes there is little standard that they follow and are subject to scrutiny by professional media practitioners. Yet despite the scrutiny they face, they are an important asset in ensuring news gets attention by the media by providing a scoop. Opposite to this, community journalism focuses on the locality of the news, with professional standards of gathering news sources albeit in a smaller scale. A major example of this is GMA regional TV and Radyo Bulacan, few of the many local media stations in the Philippines. Since most news in certain regions cannot be broadcasted on the main network, community journalism helps solve t