जनता पत्रकार | Citizen Journalism |

The concept of citizen journalism (also known as “public”, “participatory”, “democratic”, “guerrilla” or “street” journalism) is based upon public citizens “playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.” Citizen journalism should not be confused with community journalism or civic journalism, both of which are practiced by professional journalists. Collaborative journalism is also a separate concept and is the practice of professional and non-professional journalists working together. Citizen journalism is a specific form of both citizen media and user generated content.

• Citizen journalism is the gathering, writing, editing, production and distribution of news and information by people not trained as professional journalists.
• Citizen journalists are non-professionals who collect, disseminate and analyze news on blogs, wikis and sharing websites using tablets, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras and other mobile and wireless technologies. Citizen journalism refers to the reporting of news events by members of the public using the Internet to spread the information. Citizen journalism can be a simple reporting of facts and news that is largely ignored by large media companies. It is easily spread through personal websites, blogs, micro blogs, social media and so on. Some types of citizen journalism also act as a check on the reporting of larger news outlets by providing alternative analysis Citizen journalism is referred to by many other names, including: 
• • Collaborative citizen journalism (CCJ)
  • Personal publishing
  • Grassroots media
  • Networked journalism
  • Open source journalism
  • Citizen media
  • Participatory journalism
  • Hyperlocal journalism
  • Distributed journalism
  • Stand-alone journalism
  • Bottom-up journalism
  • Nonmedia journalism
  • Indymedia
  • Guerrilla journalism
  • There is some nuance to these usages, but all revolve around online publishing and the distribution of information by members of the public. | post credit: Posted by vishwa gaurav photo credit :https://www.nocaptionneeded.com/ Photograph by Gail Orenstin/The web 3.0 lab/Clima.