1. Citizen journalists are members of the public who post information online through UGC.
2. One of the first examples of citizen journalism was in 1991 when police beating up a black man was recorded and sent into new stations.
3. News organisations now allow audience participation through voting (phone and online), surveys, questioning people in the street, online forums.
4. The main difference between professionally shot footage and UGC is that professionally shot
footage is of a better quality as the professionals were prepared as they were expecting to be filming, but UGC is filmed on the spot and would be of a poorer quality as people are trying to get in on the action and whatever is happening may have been unexpected.
5. A gatekeeper is someone who controls what is and isn’t going to be published depending on the popularity of the story.
6. Gatekeeping roles have changed because it is harder to control the news that people hear about due to citizen journalism. Gatekeepers now have to try to regulate the internet.
7. The primary concern of journalists over UGC is that citizen journalists are taking their jobs so there is no longer any need for the professional journalists.
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