citizen journalism

Examples of citizen journalism in the following topics:

• Types of Material on the Internet

  • The most common source of reliable, credible information you will find on the Internet is through scholarly journals and databases.
  • Most online scholarly journals are categorized by certain subjects, professions, and fields of study and allow you to seek out the most targeted information possible.
  • Many online journals and databases will only let you preview an article abstract or summary, requiring a paid per-article or subscription fee to view the complete article.
  • Video can provide you a rich, visual depth to your Internet research, providing you with first-hand accounts, video tutorials and diaries, and citizen journalism.
  • Most mainstream journalism outlets can no longer keep up social media's immediacy of information sharing, making some into a form of citizen journalism that provides real-time, first-person accounts of world events.

• Role of the Teacher in Resource-Based Learning

  • A student interested in visual arts might have chosen to design a timeline of the major Civil War battles; those interested in personal reaction might have selected primary resources such as the journals of soldiers, statesmen, or private citizens.

• Posting

  • Carrying out of these instructions is known as posting, a procedure that takes information recorded via journal entries (or journalizing) in the General or Special Journals and transfers it to the General Ledger.
  • Journal entries may also be posted as the journal page is filled if using a manual accounting system as a matter of personal taste.
  • When posting the general journal, the date used in the ledger accounts is the date the transaction was recorded in the journal, not the date the journal entry was posted to the ledger accounts.
  • The general ledger contains all entries from both the General Journal and the Special Journals.
  • Describe how posting affects the General Journal, Special Journal and General Ledger

• Social Criticism

  • The modern term is investigative journalism, and investigative journalists today are often informally called "muckrakers."
  • The muckrakers appeared at a moment when journalism was undergoing changes in style and practice.
  • In response to the exaggerated facts and sensationalism of yellow journalism, objective journalism, as exemplified by The New York Times under Adolph Ochs after 1896, turned away from sensationalism and reported facts with the intention of being impartial and a newspaper of record.
  • He is well known for using his photographic and journalistic passion to bring attention and aid to New York City's impoverished citizens; they would became the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography.
  • It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes.

• Newspapers

  • The telegraph, put to successful use during the Mexican-American War, led to numerous far-reaching results in journalism.
  • A foreign-news service was developed that reached the highest standard yet attained in American journalism in terms of intelligence and general excellence.
  • Indeed, the years between 1840 and 1860 saw the beginnings of the scope, complexity, and excellence of our modern journalism.
  • This cheap newspaper was revolutionary because it made the news available to lower-class citizens for a reasonable price.
  • Identify the distinctive trends in newspaper journalism that emerged over the course of the eighteenth century

• Urban Recreation

  • Penny press newspapers revolutionized journalism by providing sensational human interest stories and catering to a broader audience.
  • The penny press paper was revolutionary because it made the news available to lower class citizens for a reasonable price.

• Journalizing

  • Items are entered into the general journal or the special journals via journal entries, also called journalizing.
  • How would we record journal entries for each transaction?
  • Special journals are designed to facilitate the process of journalizing and posting transactions.
  • Items are entered the general journal or the special journals via journal entries, or journalizing.
  • Explain the correct procedure for making a journal entry in the General or Special Journal.

• The Rise of Adversarial Journalism

  • Adversarial journalism, or gotcha journalism, seeks to reveal wrongdoings of public officials through a variety of premeditated methods.
  • Adversarial journalism, or gotcha journalism, is a form of journalism that seeks to uncover wrongdoings of public officials.
  • An early citation indicated that "gotcha journalism" was used by Stuart K.
  • Sarah Palin was very critical of adversarial journalism during her campaign bid in 2008.
  • Describe the rise of "gotcha journalism" and the legal recourse public figures have against such journalism

• Immigration Restriction League

  • The League used books, pamphlets, meetings, and numerous newspaper and journal articles to disseminate information and sound the alarm about the dangers of the immigrant flood tide.
  • It excluded the citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba.

• The Progressive Era

  • In academic fields the day of the amateur author gave way to the research professor who published in the new scholarly journals and presses.
  • Leading his party and country into the Progressive Era, he championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.
  • In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States.