Citizen journalism in the philippines

Moreover, these stories amplify the truth at a time when there’s a systematic effort to hide corruption and incompetence through lies.
When misinformation and disinformation thrive, citizen journalism allows ordinary individuals to stand up for truth and encourage collective action to hold power to account.

In overall, citizen journalism in the Philippines lacks to function as the “fifth estate.” Although citizen journalists produce lesser homogeneous, more polycentric, and more local news, citizen journalists have a very small audience reach.
The “fifth estate” needs to be independent from the “fourth estate.” .

In the Philippines,the idea of transforming ordinary Filipinos into citizen journalists is slowly gaining acceptance

Perhaps because of the low Internet penetration rate and the high web maintenance fee, most citizen journalism sites in the Philippines are owned by bigger or mainstream media organizations

It was only years later that I learned that this movement was called citizen journalism

Its idea is simple: ordinary citizens, equipped with mobile phones and access to the internet, can produce news content and publish them through their social media pages or news agency platforms for wider audience reach