When does a Blogger becomes a Citizen Journalist

Citizen Journalism is the journalism made for members of the public engaged in telling, sharing and interacting with stories that have any interest or value for a community.

Citizen Journalism can also be considered as the journalism made for those who don’t have a formal education as a journalist.

What makes a journalist is not only the eyes and abilities to realize when information has common interest and must become news.

What makes a journalist is also the energy and the discipline to going out there, collect, compare and produce content in the form of video, text, image or audio.

A good journalistic story hears all the sides involved and includes relevant facts that can help the audience better understand.

Bloggers become journalist when they care the most about providing the best information for their audience. When a Citizen Journalist blogs, he or she cares more about reaching the most numbers of people interested in that information than express their experiences.

The entrepreneur bloggers can take advantage of Citizen Journalism learning journalistic techniques to showcase their projects, ideas and businesses.

Why wait for the Mainstream Media knock on your door to report your sensational story or your amazing achievement, when you can do it yourself and upload it to YouTube, so the whole world can see what you did?

You can make your blog a space for press releases about your company and establish a channel to interact to the Media and your clients.

Using Social Media to shine, attract and convert clients and followers is a smart move. Every day the information collected for the People is being used for big Media companies such as CNN (with the iReporter) and ABC (with their  Witness News).