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Media visit to RTV Utrecht Making Citizen Journalism work

Media visit to RTV Utrecht Making Citizen Journalism work. 11 March 2010 Komang, Iman, Anton, Imung dan Edy. What is unieuws.nl?. Unieuws.nl is a website that promote s citizen journalism in Utrecht Province, the Netherlands It’s a unit of RTV , e stablished on April 2006

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Media visit to RTV Utrecht Making Citizen Journalism work

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  1. Media visit to RTV UtrechtMaking Citizen Journalismwork 11 March 2010 Komang, Iman, Anton, Imung dan Edy

  2. What is unieuws.nl? • Unieuws.nl is a website that promotescitizen journalism in Utrecht Province, the Netherlands • It’s a unit of RTV, established on April 2006 • In the beginning, they put 10.000 euro to prepare the website • They put 20.000 euro extra to improve the website

  3. Why citizen journalism? • Province Utrecht has 1,1 milion inhabitants • But RTV only has 50 journalist They think it’s a good idea to promote citizen journalism, tobetter cover places and events that they can’t reach

  4. Organization • It’s a non profit and commercial website. No adds!! • Only two editors in charge • The editors work24 hours/day to monitor the citizen’s posting, but they can do it from their mobile phone • Editoronly moderate comments, postings, and verify and confirm certain stories. • Editors canremove postings that violate the rules.

  5. Mechanism • Contributors have to register to the website if they want to postnews, pictures and videos, Unieuws has 6.000 members but only 100 blogs regularly • Bloggers can post anytime, there’s no regular updates’s or deadlines. • Basic guideline: no commercial postings, ads, pornography and racism.

  6. Procedure • Unieuws only provide platform for bloggers to upload any kind information. • If a blogger breaks the rule three times, editor can bantheir IP address. each users’ identity has a link to facebook and twitter. So, it is very difficult for bloggers to fake their identity. • Bloggers can upload story, picture and video using mobile phone

  7. How to attract the citizen? • You have to make them feel like at home ----developing a sense of ownerships • In the begining, they try to invite certain people to write, send picture and video. They also conduct training about citizen journalism. • Now, they use RTV radio and tv to inform people about the website.

  8. Impact • If there’s something newsworthy in unieuws.nl, RTV will pick it and use it in the main RTV website. • At one occation, the Major of Utrecht responds directly to a story.

  9. The end

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