OhmyNews International
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South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n online citizen journalism
Citizen journalism
Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information...
newspaper OhmyNews
OhmyNews
OhmyNews is a South Korean online newspaper website with the motto "Every Citizen is a Reporter". It was founded by Oh Yeon Ho on February 22, 2000....
. OhmyNews International was established by OhmyNews founder Oh Yeon Ho
Oh Yeon Ho
Oh Yeon Ho is the founder of "citizen journalism" in the Republic of Korea, and CEO of OhmyNews a new approach to cyber-journalism in which ordinary citizens can contribute to a major news organization through being at news events, filing reports, and having their work verified and edited by a...
on February 22, 2004 on the principle that "Every citizen in the world is a reporter." It currently has 6,000 citizen reporters from 110 countries.
The OhmyNews citizen journalism model accepts, edits and publishes articles from its readers, in an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
style of news reporting. OMNI employs one full time editor in South Korea and one full time editor in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Unlike the Korean OhmyNews, OMNI has no staff reporters, but relies upon a combination of amateur (citizen) reporters and citizen reporters who work in the media.
Unlike citizen journalism sites like Backfence and AgoraVox
AgoraVox
AgoraVox is a French website of news powered by volunteers and non-professional writers, created by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay in March 2005, offering items by single or multiple writers....
, OMNI subjects published articles to rigorous editing and fact checking. Citizen reporters must also agree to a strict code of conduct and register with their real names and provide identification at the time of registration.
In addition to straight news reporting and op-ed submissions, OMNI publishes photo essays, poetry and can attach video and audio to the citizen reporters' articles. All articles are available via RSS
RSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
feeds and Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
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The 2nd Annual Citizen Reporters' Forum was held by OhmyNews in Seoul, Korea from July 12 to 15, 2006.
The 3rd Annual Citizen Reporters' Forum was held in Seoul, June 27-29, 2007.
In September 2010, Oh My News International http://international.ohmynews.com changed its format from citizen journalism to becoming a forum about citizen journalism. OmN became a victim of its own success; verifying facts from around the world became too difficult. The old site http://english.ohmynews.com will be an archive and not accept new articles. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295823
External links
- OhmyNews International
- OMNI RSS feeds
- OMNI Twitter feed
- OhmyNews (Korean language)
- OhmyNews Blog Japan