Assessment on the Challenges and Opportunities of Citizen Journalism on News production: The Case of FANA Broadcasting Corporate
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2022-10
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Addis Ababa University
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Citizen journalism surfaced around the year 2000 as a way of challenging the role of journalism and other dominant institutions in shaping public debate. Citizen journalism is when ordinary people do professional intelligence work. This study focuses on the challenges and opportunities of citizen journalism in news production. The study used qualitative methodology with purposive and convenience sampling techniques. Focus group discussion and interviews were the data-gathering instruments used for collecting the data. The editors and reporters from Fana broadcasting corporation were the subjects of this study. As the finding revealed, citizen journalism has challenges and opportunities in the news production of main stream media. The challenges are impact on news credibility, spread misinformation and unethical activity in the names of journalism, challenges for gatekeeping and framing characteristics of the main stream media as well as it leads the professional journalism in to critics. On the other hand, citizen journalism has been an opportunity for the main stream media’s news production process. The opportunities are that it is used as a news source, opportunities for participatory journalism, creating room for feedback and discussion and coverage about political corruption.
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Citizen journalism