Citizen Journalism

 On 29th Jan , a lecture on citizen journalism was held for the student of mass communication in Jinnah university for women.


 The producer,anchor and documentary film maker of dawn news Mr.Owais Ahmed was the guest speaker.
 who explained us that what is citizen journalism and he said citizen journalism is "citizen's media and   networked journalism". He said that there are few things which are very inportant in citizen journalism that is:

• they have an ability to find such thing which are intersting.
• the necessity is to be real.
• You must have a confidence that your topic is intersting.
• Avoid plagiarize
• keep your eye open for every matter.
• Citizen journalism is the sharing of experiences.

He also describe four different types of citizen journalism.
1.Sharing of experiences
2.Sharing of opinion
3.Sharing of discoveries
4.Sharing of expertise

 

The lecture ended followed by the feedback on the dawn news' morning show "Mast Morning with Maira".