Citizen journalism basically based on citizens who plays a dynamic role in process of news
collection,news reporting, edditing of news and distribution of news to other public.Its also clearly
noted that citizen journalism does not require professional skills for operation.
Citizen journalism is increasingly practiced worldwide due to the expansion of the Internet, new media
technologies, and social media which has granted them a wider space for the practice of this form of
journalism.With the rise of media platforms like Facebook,twiter and watsaap,it has favoured the
practice since there is less restrictions in these platforms hence anyone can type and write anything that
he/she wants to talk about on media.
Main stream media where professionals work has a well designed program put in place and also
principles Wich guides their operation hence there some kind of content that as professionals they may
not find it easy to disseminate to public as due to media ethics.
Lack of ethical issues in citizen journalism has favoured the practice hence the public find trust in citizen
journalism as the information that are always ommited by mainstream media are covered by citizen
journalists.Nowadays before mainstream media broadcast news it’s always noted that the news has
already reached the public through citizen journalist since they always get first hand information from
the ground and once they receive it the information is spread out at a faster rate through social media.
Journalism as a profession needs to be safeguarded from citezen journalism Wich seems to gain more
popularity hence may take over this profession by coming up with better ways to combat the
competition.
As a mainstream media house there should be a well designed programs that aims to inform the public
on the current matters as they happen before they are fed with information from citizen journalists.
Mainstream media should always avoid being biased ,let them report what happens as they are to avoid
mistrust by the citizens which may lead them to depend on citizen journalism as a tool for getting
information.
The future of journalism as a profession is still bright hence there is a need to make it better by putting
inplace better strategies on how they do operate for the public to gain more trust in them than citizen
journalism.
