This document discusses citizen journalism and the role of the "preditor". It defines citizen journalism as reporting by ordinary people rather than professional journalists. Citizen journalism relies on crowdsourcing and combining the work of amateurs with professionals. A preditor facilitates citizen journalism by editing, organizing, and ensuring quality control of user-submitted content. Their role includes content work, networking, community work, and technical work. The relationship between amateur and professional journalists is also examined, as well as tools and influences on citizen journalism today.

1. CITIZEN JOURNALISMQiminYuan (Jessie)OxanaAstakhovaJing Ping

2. OutlineSummaryAnalysisQuestions

3. Summary – “Preditors”: Making citizen journalism workWhat is citizen journalism?“ordinary person’s capacity to bear witness, thereby providing commentators with a useful label to characterize an ostensibly new genre of reporting” (Allan, 2009)or in other words…Reporting of the news by private individuals, who are not professional journalists “grassroots journalism”, “open source journalism”, “participatory journalism”, “hyperlocal journalism”, “distributed journalism”, “networked journalism”, “user-generated content”

4. Crowdsourcing– as a basis for citizen journalismCrowdsourcing is the idea that a crowd of people, geographically dispersed but sharing common purpose, can achieve things better or differently to small groups of professionals and gatekeepers” (Simons, 2008) It is transformation from “journalism as a lecture” to “journalism as a conversation” (Gilmor, 2006)

5. Semi-pro journalism – as an efficient model of citizen journalismSemi-pro journalism is a combination of “ground work of average citizens or inexperienced journalists with editorial and production expertise of professional journalists”

6. Who are “PREDITORS”?Preditor= Producing + editing + organizing=facilitator of “journalism as a conversation”

7. Preditor’s abilities must include:be comfortable with writing and editing copy,be cognizant of publishing law and regulation,have a strong sense of news values and be committed to ethical standards, and balance and fairness in their own practice.have the ability to establish collaborative interpersonal and professional relationships and webs of content syndication, across the online news environment.have the capacity to serve, guide and sometimes manage a content-making community that includes not just readers, but users who have become, in effect, colleagues.

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9. Dimensions of Preditor’s Role: Content work Networking Community work Technical work

10. ContentWorkediting and producing original contentensuring that user-submitted stories meet legal, regulatory, ethical and quality requirementsensuring that user-submitted stories providing “pro” content that drives visits, publicity, syndications and further contributions to the site.

11. Networkingmaking advantageous connections with existing, established online and offline news outletsensuring that content is delivered and sourced across a number of platforms and of entrepreneurially mobilizing on and offline networks

12. Communityworkbringing people to the service and keeping communities engaged with on-site content and one anotherProviding participating community withTrainingsite-specific informationmediation.

13. Technical Workon-site technical workoff-site technical work“meta-tech” work

14. Relationship between Amateur & Professional Journalists Citizen JournalismAmateur JournalistsMainstream JournalismProfessional JournalistsRespectCommunicationSocial relationshipNetworkTechnologies How can they survive?

15. What are their potential role in the society?

16. What are their co-influences and conflicts?TrainingProfessionOpen-mindedTake more advantages of online & mobile technologies

17. CITIZEN JOURNALISM vs MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM

18. CITIZEN JOURNALISM vs MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM quality of content

19. conversational tools

20. news angle

21. trustworthiness

22. legal issue

23. readers flow to the website

24. risks

25. finance flow