GUERILLA JOURNALIS

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by: Kumar Manish @kumarmanish9

Mirant Tiwari @MirantTiwari

WHAT IS GUERILLA

JOURNALISM?"Guerrilla journalism is an alternativeand activist form of news gathering and reporting that functions outside mainstream media institutions using

amateur or basic tools like your mobiles and social media platforms."

"60,000 titles registered as newspapers7,000 of these are operating

100+ national News Channel "

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ADVANTAGES OFGUERILLAJOURNALISM?• You can be your own reporter. You write, publish &

promote for the world to read.

• It also has on the spot footage and pictures of the event; pictures that society would never be able to see if it was not for a citizen who took the pictures.

• There is never a small story for citizen journalists. Every bit of news counts.

• No more dependence on mainstream journalist/ reporter.

SPEEDThe internet allows for the uploading of news and information instantaneously. Make It Fast!!

You can file the story from anywhere. No need for huge set up as in case of mainstream media.

SIMPLICITYTechnology has come a long way and even though many mobile cameras are not high-tech like the ones that professional journalists use it still does the trick. Once a citizen is equipped with a mobile phone and or with internet and a camera; news and information can be transferred to blogs and social networks sites in just moments. Keep It Simple!!And Social Media makes a good story viral in no time. Reaching to millions of people in form of tweet or fb post.

LOW COSTBeing a citizen journalist cost you little to nomoney since most of us are already fully equipped with a camera and internet. All you need to collect and report news and information. Negligible Investments!!

BRIDGING GAPSProfessional journalists tend to omit the underlying, not interesting facts of an event. They want readers and an audience so they just give us the interesting parts to a story. Citizen journalists on the other hand do not care about an audience and give readers the full story when reporting (which is usually posting) a story or an event. Take Risks!!

NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM"When Roh (South Korea Prez) in 2002) gave his first exclusive interview not to any of the national newspapers or TV stations, but to OhmyNews, a citizen journalism website."Why?OhmyNews functions in an open-source style, with up to 70 percent of all its articles written by freelance contributors, most of whom are ordinary citizenscredit - salzburg

NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM

ARABSpring

"Mohamed Bouazizi"Cellphones -Record-

Viral

NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM

OccupyWALL STREET

-160,000 fb LIKES-You tube videos

-www.occupywallst.org #occupywallst

NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM

2013Protest In Turkey

"Gezi Park"

GUERILLA JOURNALISM IN INDIA

CITIZEN MATTERS

Closer to home this Bangalore based initiativeOf Subramaniam Vincent and Meera K. Is

Stirring Citizen Generated News.- LiveMint

GUERILLA JOURNALISM IN INDIA1. The Viewspaper (Paper run entirely by the Indian

youth): India's active e-newspaper for citizen journalism

2. CGnet: Peoples website of Chhattisgarh :A citizen Journalism initiative in the state of Chhattisgarh in Central tribal India

3. Participatory Citizen Journalism: Merinews (India)-India’s first citizen journalism news portal. It is a people’s news platform of the people, by the people, for the people, providing power to the people and empowering democracy.

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Some Disadvantages

IT IS YOU, and only You. •One person account, biased & one sided view.•Citizen journalists do not have the training and experience of professional journalist, no standards should they be held to?•Citizen journalism is more of a hobby than a formalized way to contribute to news.

HOW & WHY TO MAINTAIN THIS?

• SHARE, important information within your city.

• IMPROVE, the Community around.

• DISTRIBUTE, the expertise you have around you.

• START, a Revolution.

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