The Korean OhMyNews-website feautres 200 stories a day, 70 percent of those written by more than 41000 “citizen journalists”. Ordinary people who have signed themselves up for writing Essays on everyday life and Columns on political and social issues – along with book and film reviews and media critisism.<\/p>\n
So\u00a0explained Jean K. Min, International editor of\u00a0Ohmynews.com<\/font><\/a>\u00a0in his just-ended presentation at the CustomerMade conference in Copenhagen today.<\/p>\n Instant fame is one of the parameteres that drive this creativity: Publishing on OhMyNews guarantees your stories are read – the present record are at 100.000 views. That – and the commenting of other users, along with the sense of being empowered through particpating. Yet another one is money: OhMyNews pays for the best stories – and users can donate money too writers they specifically like. And do so: one writer received $5000 on that account.<\/p>\n The basic “hard news”, analyses, columns and editorials are, however, written by employed staff reporters. And the stories of the Citizen Reporter-stories are also edited by professional editors, to ensure their quality.<\/p>\n About Jean K. Min and <\/strong>Ohmynews.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a> Live blogging from\u00a0CustomerMade More posts from CustomerMade The Korean OhMyNews-website feautres 200 stories a day, 70 percent of those written by more than 41000 “citizen journalists”. Ordinary people who have signed themselves up for writing Essays on everyday life and Columns on political and social issues – along with book and film reviews and media critisism. So\u00a0explained Jean K. Min, International editor… L\u00e6s mere »Honey I’m on Ohmynews! (CustomerMade liveblogging # 8)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe official conference presentation of\u00a0Jean K. Min and Ohmynews.com<\/font><\/a>\u00a0reads: The online newspaper Ohmynews.com didn\u2019t even exist five years ago. Now it\u2019s one of the most influential news media in South Korea. Their slogan is \u2018Every citizen is a reporter\u2019, which should be taken literally: 80% of the site\u2019s reportage is written by upwards of 40,000 ordinary citizen-reporters from all over the world. Jean K. Min, editor of the international edition of Ohmynews.com, will be describing how Ohmynews.com works and discuss what possibilities this new journalism opens up for the media and citizens themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>This post is brought to you live blogging (well, this particular paragraph was actually written in advance just yesterday evening) from the The CustomerMade conference<\/a>\u00a0– one day of focus on usergenerated content, products and services: about how \u201cthe market itself is taking over all phases of production, from concept development and design to finished product\u201d as the official website reads. Arranged by O\u2019Reilly Media<\/a> and Innovation Lab<\/a> in corporation with\u00a0\u00a0Foreningen af Danske InternetMedier<\/a> (my organisation) \u2013 the IAB Denmark, among others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Here’s my other posts written during the day from CustomerMade:<\/p>\n\n