Citizen Journalism

• What is Citizen Journalism?

Citizen Journalism is for the audience/public citizen to be able to play a role in collecting, reporting and analysing news.This is important because it allows newsgathering and reporting that functions outside mainstream media institutions.

• Dan Gilmore

Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist. He is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship.Dan Gillmor is the author of We the Media (2004),which describes the Internet as an opportunity for independent journalists to challenge the consolidation of traditional media and contains Gillmor's widely cited realization: "my readers know more than I do." The book offers a guide to new internet tools for journalists, including weblogs, RSS, SMS, peer-to-peer, and predicts how these tools will change journalism.In 2010, Gillmor published Mediactive a book on digital media literacy.