Citizen Journalist Mug

Citizen journalism (also known as participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism) is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information. An alternative and activist form of news gathering and reporting that functions outside mainstream media institutions, often as a response to shortcomings in the professional journalistic field, that uses similar journalistic practices but is driven by different objectives and ideals and relies on alternative sources of legitimacy than traditional or mainstream journalism". The underlying principle of citizen journalism is that ordinary people, not professional journalists,