Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism, grassroots journalism, or street journalism, is based upon members of the
Wikimania 2007 Citizen Journalism Unconference
Citizen journalist at English Defense League demonstration in London, 2011
2004 tsunami picture taken by a bystander and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
Person using a smartphone to take photographs
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on events, facts, ideas, and people that constitute the "news of the day" and inform society with a commitment to accuracy and verification. Th
Citizen journalism
…were "often part of 'special projects' that were expensive, time-consuming, and episodic. Too often these projects dealt with an issue and moved on. Professional journalists were driving the discussion. They would have the goal of doing a story on welfare-to-work (or the environment, or traffic problems, or the economy…
Photojournalists photographing US President Barack Obama in November 2013
Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing a government official after a building collapse in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. March 2013.
Journalists in the Radio-Canada/CBC newsroom in Montreal, Canada
Media greeting Cap Anamur II's Rupert Neudeck in Hamburg, 1986 at a press conference