Crowdsourcing Journalism And Crowdfunding Journalism:Study On The New Mode Of News Production In Social Media Time

With the advancement of internet technology, vigorous development of social network media has improved the public ability to product news and to interact with people. Facing the challenges of digitizing, traditional news production mode hasn’t been able to adapt to new social relations and development. Crowdsourcing journalism and crowdfunding journalism make a breakthrough and innovation. And they are new ways to product news by utilizing the collective wisdom and funds. They redefine the roles that played by news producers and the public as well as the correlations between them. Dominated by media organizations or individual person, it reports news with informational cooperation and economic cooperation from the public. By applying the case study method, depth interview method and secondary data analysis method, this paper attempts to explain the production mechanism and Operation characteristics in the perspective of news production and consumption. Moreover, it analyzes the Characteristics, innovation and significance that crowdsourcing journalism and crowdfunding journalism bring to the development of journalism. And it also discuss the general problems and some difficult situation in our country about the development of crowdsourcing journalism and crowdfunding journalism. At last, this paper offers some reasonable proposal to hope to provide the inference for crowdsourcing journalism and crowdfunding journalism of Chinese documentary.