Numerous interesting possibilities were discussed, including covering An interesting project, and worth keeping an eye on. Concurrently, we What is OhMyNews? "With OhmyNews, we wanted to say goodbye to 20th-century When Oh started the site three years ago he had three volunteer collaborators And people are paying attention. OhmyNews is getting an average of 2 MILLION The Guardian newspaper called OhmyNews "arguably the world’s most "OhmyNews is as influential as any newspaper," a South Korean diplomat Calling itself a "news guerilla organization" — and adopting OhmyNews tends to be anticorporate, antigovernment and anti-American. Stories "It’s entertaining, it’s heartfelt and it’s caring," said Don Park, Of course, one of the essential elements of making it work is getting OhmyNews reporters are given access to government ministries and public The site warns contributors that they bear sole responsibility for whatever All stories are fact-checked and edited (that’s what the 40 full-time quotes from Wired Online<\/a><\/p>\n OhmyNews in English<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the weekend we went to a meeting of people interested in contributing to an alternative media web site called "Exploit Boston!", envisioned to be a sort of facilitator for and aggregator of writing by a group of "citizen journalists" … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ohmylogom.gif\")
<\/a>Over the weekend we went to a meeting of people interested
\n in contributing to an alternative media web site called "Exploit
\n Boston!<\/a>",
\n envisioned to be a sort of facilitator for and aggregator of writing
\n by a group of "citizen journalists"
\n covering the local beat. We can’t say we have taken much to the name,
\n being accustomed to battle exploitation in all its nefarious forms, but
\n the idea has some merit. <\/p>\n
\n local politics and arts, designing a logo and paper organization in order
\n to facilitate getting credentials and press passes, sharing cameras and
\n recording equipment, the mechanics of recording, editing and hosting streaming
\n video. Just the kind of thing we were considering in "Why we need video
\n aggregators<\/a>".<\/p>\n
\n have been researching the world’s first Digital Democracy – South Korea. There,
\n a site called OhmyNews has revolutionized media and politics, provided a
\n viable technical and financial model for "Citizen Journalism", become the
\n number 1 news source in the country, and been held primarily responsible
\n for electing the current President, Roh Moo-hyu.<\/p>\n\n
\n journalism where people only saw things through the eyes of the mainstream,
\n conservative media," said editor and founder, Oh Yeon-ho. "Our
\n main concept is every citizen can be a reporter. We put everything
\n out there and people judge the truth for themselves."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n – today the site has a paid staff of 40 editors and reporters. They
\n collectively post about 200 stories a day, generating a virtually constant
\n output of stories and updates. How? Via their network of over 26,000
\n registered "Citizen Journalists" who contribute stories and get paid for
\n those which are published.<\/p>\n
\n readers a day. 100 times more than Glenn Reynolds. But not more than the
\n top citizen reporters in this country could generate, if they were organized
\n like this. We modestly suggested something along those lines in our posting The
\n Bloggers Consortium<\/a>. However, even the Dowbrigade never dared dream
\n of power like this:<\/p>\n\n
\n domestically powerful news site."<\/p>\n
\n told the paper. "No policy maker can afford to ignore it. South Korea
\n is changing in ways that we cannot believe ourselves."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/onymask.jpg\")
The
\n attitude sounds exactly like what we seem to be groping towards here in
\n our local cyber cells and emerging organizations:<\/p>\n\n
\n the motto, "Every Citizen is a Reporter" — OhmyNews has
\n become a wild, inconsistent, unpredictable blend of the Drudge Report,
\n Slashdot
\n and a traditional, but partisan, newspaper.<\/p>\n
\n are often subjective, oozing with emotion and odd personal tidbits. But they
\n also can be passionate, detailed and knowledgeably written. The site covers everything
\n a traditional newspaper covers — from sports to international politics — but
\n does it with heaps of personality.<\/p>\n
\n a Korean-American reader who said he visits OhmyNews daily. "It’s like
\n blogs. It has a personal side and an emotional side. It has human texture.
\n It’s not
\n bland and objective like traditional news. There’s a definite bias. It’s
\n not professional, but you get the facts. I trust it."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n access to the newsmakers. Here, the value of belonging to an organization,
\n as opposed to working for a corporation, come into play. Would American
\n politicians ever give bloggers and citizen journalists equal access? Not
\n this years crop, that’s for sure. South Koreans, however, seem to have
\n found their One.<\/p>\n\n
\n institutions, putting them on level footing with professional reporters.
\n Top officials increasingly give OhmyNews journalists exclusive interviews,
\n a precedent set by President Roh, who gave his first postelection interview
\n to OhmyNews — a startling snub of the country’s established media.<\/p>\n
\n they post. Copyright is shared between the site and the reporter, who
\n is free to republish the material elsewhere.The pay ranges from nothing
\n to
\n about $16, depending on how a story is ranked
\n by the editors — "basic," "bonus" or "special."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n employees do). They have an English
\n language version.<\/a> Check it out. <\/p>\n