What's the difference between a citizen journalist and a mojo?
Denis Filed Under: Labels: Business model, Citizen Journalism, Interactivity, Journalism studies, Multimedia, online editions
Of course, the main difference is the fact that mobile journalists (mojos) are paid by the paper they write for. After that is taken out of the equation there are few differences. A mojo will probably be better equipped, but their output looks very similar to that of a citizen journalist.
Mojos report on everything and anything and record the event for all forms of broadcast and print. One of the main jobs of a mojo on a local paper is to train local people to be citizen journalists who will get paid to contribute to the newspaper.
I think the idea of being a mojo is a good one if it means that you are prepared to record an event in several different ways. However, if it means that you run around like a headless chicken trying desperately to cover everything, but nothing in detail, then it's a very bad idea.
Mojos report on everything and anything and record the event for all forms of broadcast and print. One of the main jobs of a mojo on a local paper is to train local people to be citizen journalists who will get paid to contribute to the newspaper.
I think the idea of being a mojo is a good one if it means that you are prepared to record an event in several different ways. However, if it means that you run around like a headless chicken trying desperately to cover everything, but nothing in detail, then it's a very bad idea.