News Portals for Local Citizen Journalists
Citizen media of the Internet age had taken on major significance since citizen journalists and bloggers participated in the worldwide reaction and relief efforts of Southeast Asia’s tsunami in late 2004 and hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The new media have been conveying not only editorial content on global scale, but also providing communal and participatory activities such as open article submissions.
Mark Glaser from MediaShift elaborated on the symbiosis: “When a traditional media outlet covers a story, the editor usually assigns the story to a reporter, the reporter does the work and turns in a story that gets edited and published. But in the case of ad hoc citizen journalism, a blogger or observer might see something happening that’s newsworthy and bring it to the attention of the blogosphere or the online public. As more people uncover facts and work together, the story can snowball without a guiding editor and produce interesting results–leading to the mainstream media finally covering it and giving it wider exposure.”.
Citizen journalism is the first and most essential step to the future of media democracy.
Even though Indonesia’s online media stream is still predominated by the Big Media subsidiaries, for instance Kompas Cyber Media (Kompas), Tempo Interaktif (Tempo), Media Indonesia Online (Media Indonesia), and ANTARA News (Kantor Berita Antara), there’ve been microjournalistic media sites springing up, distributing content to the public, by the public, and from the public according to a general theme or any specified ones.
Here are some:
NetSains.Com: your knowledge for the world
Click here to submit article.
Common Ground News Service
Click here to submit article.
Kolumnis.com: Sindikasi Penulis Opini
Click here to submit article.
Dua Berita: News Portal Nomor Dua Indonesia
Click here to submit article.
RumahkuSurgaku.com: Portalnya Keluarga Bahagia
Click here to submit article.
ForumWartawan.com: Komunitas Jurnalis Indonesia
Click here to submit article. Note: Register and login first.
Kabar Indonesia: Dari kita untuk kita
Click here to submit article.
Tembok Bomber: Indonesian Street Art – Urban Art Community
Click here to submit article.
Bale Bengong
Click here to submit article.
Inside Indonesia
Click here to submit article.
Update.
Kompasiana
Register and login to post.
Politikana
Click here to submit article.
Most of the web services listed above are mainly published in Bahasa Indonesia, but if you wish, just contact or email them and send your suggestion to have it available in English and/or other languages. Good luck!
PS: Anita McKay just started up a forum specifically for Indonesian expatriates, it’s newly launched and still seeking for active contributors. Go check Indonesian Expatriates Forum. If you’d like to recommend a news site, please leave a comment.
Related sites.
Citizen Journalism: Theory and Practice at OhMyNews
Citizen Journalism Awards
Persatuan Pewarta Warga Indonesia
Asia Blogging: Media Channel
Related articles.
Citizen journalism at Wikipedia
Global Citizen Journalism
Your Guide to Citizen Journalism by Mark Glaser
Citizen Journalism… Take it or Leave it! | Perspektif Online
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Indonesia has many great bloggers with good posts (and we can consider them as good citizenjournalism journalist)… I think we don’t need to create “yet another news portal”, it’s better to organize their feeds as a well categorized agregator portal… and encourage Indonesian blogger to post in english as well :)
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Still related to Indonesian site, but mainly focused on chemistry:
http://chem-is-try.org
Didik Wicaksono’s last blog post..10,000 visits in 1 month
CNN just paid $750,000 to buy the domains ireport.com and i-report.com, big movement in this kind of thing at the moment.
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Magic Marisa, as always you are my source of information and inspiration. You have pointed out some informational safe havens in the wild west of professional and citizen journalism in the blogosphere.
For the moment I’m breathless; visiting, reading, checking. It’s like exploring space: the more you discover, the more there is you still have to discover.
(By the way: is there a reason why my yesterday’s comment(s) have been blocked?)
colson’s last blog post..The Mochtar Lubis Awards
They haven’t been blocked, colson. Akismet catched them.
Happened to WebUrbanist’s pingback and pak Enda’s comment as well.
I’d have to check up on the Akismet catched spams from time to time, it have been making slight mistakes lately.
Sorry for the tech props problems.
Just looking around.. thank you for your information.. that’s great.. I’m proud to be an Indonesian people!!
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