Citizen Journalism

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• 2. Mass self communications (8)
• 3. rapid distribution of breaking news, engages the public, opinionated, involves the public, increases public interest in news, journalists cant be everywhere, can help solve crimes e.g. Tomlinson, democratised media (8, 2, 2)
• 4. empowered by the internet, smart phones, (3, 3, 2, 9)
• 5. Individual publishes news content with the aim to benefit a community (9)
• 6. blogging, alternative news sites, social media - youtube, twitter, facebook. (9)
• 7. A citizen creates, produces and distributes news media content independently, active without professional involvement from news organisations (7, 10)