The 7 continents of the world are :
Antarctica, Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, and Europe.
The relatively new democracies and open-source internet were previously controlled by a political elites,
which is why new websites and blogs have arisen that have not needed older, legacy media to attract attention.
ANTARCTICA INITIATIVES
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-get-antarctic-passport-180957936/
Are you a citizen of Antarctica? The answer has to be unequivocally, "no"
—Antarctica’s not a country, it’s a continent that will never be a nation.
You Can Get an Antarctic Passport
Pledge your loyalty to the southernmost continent—
and to the ideals of peace, equality and sustainability
AFRICAN INITIATIVES
http://www.ngopulse.org/resource/citizen-journalism-africa-project
The Citizen Journalism in Africa (CJA) Project is a partnership project between SANGONeT and Hivos aimed building the capacity of civil society organisations to use online and offline citizen journalism as a means of publication, lobby, networking and knowledge sharing with their constituencies. The project is implemented in six African countries: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique, through the Citizen Journalism Africa portal. ...
AUSTRALIA INITIATIVES
Becoming the media: Australian schools and the rise of citizen journalism
The multiplicity of voices, and the collaborative quality of Reddit’s community is illustrative of both the power of online communities during times of crisis, but also of the decreased effectiveness of legacy media such as newspapers and television, which were powerless to match the dexterity, accuracy, and depth of reporting emerging from Reddit’s global community of citizen media participants. ...
ASIAN INITIATIVES
It may be inside a protest rally, or in front of a deadly shooting. Smartphones, video and social media are empowering citizens to tell their stories like never before. live video's can have an impact on forwarding the message to the public. More recently, citizen videos offered immediate and intimate perspectives ...
the flourishing citizen journalism on China's twitter-like service Sina Weibo.
With over 300 million registered users and daily tweets of over 100 million, Sina Weibo tells you exactly what people care about the most everyday, and this week, with millions of tweets everyday, the key word Shifang dominated the top 10 most talked-about subjects online. ... READ MORE
NORTH AMERICA INITIATIVES
http://fromscratchmedia.squarespace.com
Would you consider a tweet from a citizen journalist more or less credible
than a tweet from a mainstream media outlet?
SOUTH AMERICA INITIATIVES
https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/whats-new-latin-american-journalism
In Colombia, we found La Silla Vacía, founded by our friend Juanita León, who has the skills and talent of a solid editor and the determination and strength of a business entrepreneur. Her website, which has been online for almost two years now, is an independent attempt to cover the powerful in Colombia—in León’s own words, the site deals with “how power is exercised”—in ways the traditional media never have in her country. It is a successful enterprise, hosting more than sixty political blogs and with an active participation from a growing audience.
In El Salvador, we found El Faro, the most unlikely digital publication. El Faro is the brainchild of Carlos Dada, who in 1998 had the crazy idea of launching an Internet publication in a country emerging from a cruel civil war and with almost no Internet connections—he did it out of lack of funds more than of clairvoyance about the future of journalism. El Faro specializes in hardcore investigative journalism and long narrative form, carried out under very difficult circumstances. The digital publication has gained prestige and admiration throughout the continent.
In Perú, we found IDL-Reporteros, where veteran Gustavo Gorriti leads a small group of young reporters in a watchdog journalism project. They have exposed cases of corruption and abuse of power with a degree of independence and freedom almost impossible to find today in the country’s established media. Gorriti’s training requirements for his young reporters include taking classes of Krav Maga, the Israeli hand-to-hand combat technique.
In Chile, we found very diverse experiences, from Mónica González’s investigative non-profit organization CIPER for high-quality watchdog journalism, to the satirical magazine The Clinic, to a network of a dozen citizen journalism dailies.
In Mexico, we found Nuestra Aparente Rendición, a collective blog managed by writer Lolita Bosch under the premise that only civil society can save Mexico from total disaster. It posts stories, personal testimony, literature and art about the violence, in a collective effort to find a way out of the violence.
In Argentina, we found chequeado.com, a local version of the U.S. site FactCheck and a reaction against the political polarization of the country’s media. ....
EU INITIATIVES
https://www.jef.eu/activities/projects/ladder-project/ladder-citizen-journalist-initiative/
The project LADDER created a network of citizen journalists (approx 50 people)
from all over the enlarged Europe (all the EU countries represented by LADDER partners)
who are already or wish to be involved, non professionally, in journalistic activities covering development issues
https://www.euroscientist.com/citizen-journalism-phenomenon-stay/
Is the citizen journalist a threat to the professional?
Citizen journalism should not be confused with Community journalism or Civic journalism, both of which are practiced by professional journalists;
more about CIVIC JOURNALISM / PUBLIC JOURNALISM
Collaborative journalism which is the practice of professional and non-professional journalists working together;
and Social journalism that denotes a digital publication with a hybrid of professional and non-professional journalism.
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