The Development Of Citizen Journalism In China

Abstract: our country citizen news emerged around2001, after10years ofdevelopment, civic news has entered into a relatively mature stage. Especially afterthe earthquake in Wenchuan, citizen journalism into a high-speed development period.The emergence of micro-blog, is to let each person are inseparable from the citizenjournalism.All of a sudden time news has a moment, major news media may not every timeappear in the news of the first scene. While the appearance on the scene of theordinary citizen, but naturally became the" first news source. They provideprofessional media to provide first-hand information, the reporter of professionalmedia according to the first hand information to inquire into the root of the matter,excavate more news. The ordinary citizen reporters while not trained in professionaljournalism training, but appeared in the first scene is their inherent advantages.Because ordinary people’s perspective, to let them press close to readers.Blogs, podcasts, making, micro-blog and other new media development makes topublish information more convenient, more and more quickly, it also gives thedevelopment of citizen journalism provides greater space.However, development of the citizen journalism also appeared a few problems,aiming at these problems, should take concrete measures to solve the.