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I plan to add more information to the Digital Journalism Article. I want to expand the section on citizen journalism, as well as add information about the impact that digital journalism has had on traditional journalism.

I want to improve the section on citizen and public journalism. Specifically I want to include how the difference has to do with who is reporting and where they are publishing the content. I will also be contributing information that will discuss the criticisms of citizen journalism.

As I look back on the work that I have done, I noticed that I edited more in the citizens journalism article then the digital journalism article.

I noticed for this assignment that there is a section on adding a photo. I made a suggestion on the Haim the Band page about a possible photo change.

Peer edit of Journalism article

I think that the article is very well written and offers a lot of valuable information about journalism. The article definitely sounds like a wikipedia article and has the right tone to it. I especially like how the article has many sections, one being a section on the history of journalism, which I found to be very interesting and helpful to read. I noticed that there are some sections that need improvement under Wikipedia's standards, and therefore making these improvements to those sections would be beneficial and something I would suggest looking at and working on.

Implications on traditional journalism in digital journalism article

There is also the impact that digital journalism is facing due to citizen journalism. Because digital journalism takes place online and is contributed mostly by citizens on user generated content sites, there is competition growing between the two. Citizen journalism allows anyone to post anything, and because of that, journalists are being forced by their employers to publish more news content then before, which often means rushing news stories and failing to confirm information.  

Criticisms in citizens journalism article

Affects on Journalism

Journalism has been affected significantly due to citizen journalism. This is because citizen journalism allows people to post as much content as they want, whenever they want. in order to stay competitive, traditional news sources are forcing their journalist to compete. This means that journalist now have to write, edit and add pictures into their content and they must do so at a rapid pace, as it is perceived by news companies that it's essential for journalist to produce content at the same rate that citizens can post content on the internet. This is hard though, as many news companies are facing budget cuts and cannot afford to pay journalists the proper amount for the amount of work they do.

Bibliography:

Fenton, N. "News in the Digital Age," in Routledge Companion to News & Journalism, Pages-557-567

Harcup--Alternative Journalism as Active Citizenship