TLDR

  • Hocalwire CMS enables professional journalists to gather news from the public and publish it after an editing process.

Citizen Journalism, often known as street journalism or collaborative journalism, is a form where public citizens capture stories, images, and videos and submit them to newspapers and media that are published or after a careful review and editing. It creates a sense of collaboration between the news publisher and the public, where nuances and stories get captured in the roots of society. It plays a key role in solving public issues, requesting aid and remedies, and throwing light on legislative and civil unrest within communities.

Guest Journalism or guest posting blogging is where professional writers produce stories in dedicated columns in reputed newspapers. They are often open to debate and scrutiny, and hence a system is required to review, edit, and modify content to meet regulations and publish with proper validations.

Advantages of Citizen Journalism:

1. Gather information faster from the source without a dedicated reporter deployed on the spot

2. Pipeline of stories that can be published immediately or repurposed later

3. Photographs & Video submissions that are authentic to the story add originality

4. Public audience looks at the brand to shout out their issues which boosts goodwill and readership

5. Organic reach to the stories among the public at reduced time and effort

Receive, Review and Publish within Hocalwire CMS:

50% of the news agencies don't go for citizen journalism or guest posting due to the violation and abusive content that gets submitted in large quantities, which spam the editors. The integrated editorial process of Hocalwire CMS helps overcome the editing hurdles of the submitted content. No one editor or reporter is needed to review the content. Then multiple stories can be assigned to various writers who can go through the submissions, make modifications if necessary or remove the submission. Once they have done their initial scrutiny, the story can be further passed on to the Editor in Chief, who can look at the final quality and approve it for publishing. By fixing the problem using a review and publish method, the advantages of guest posting & citizen journaling can be exploited to a greater extent.

The Mobile App Advantage:

The news and stories that happen around are instantaneous. A leaking water pipe, unauthorized construction, or accident on the roads are volatile events and have to be recorded spontaneously on sight. Nowadays, most leading news publishers have dedicated mobile applications to deliver news to their readers. The same mobile application can be integrated with the Hocalwire CMS and can receive submissions from the public. It is easy, efficient, and less time consuming for a person on the spot to submit and take it forward. By the advantage of mobile applications, no stories can go unnoticed, and they get to see the light of the day and keep people informed of happenings in their whereabouts.



Guest Writer Access Controls:

Guest writers are seasonal submitters of stories on a need basis. The Hocalwire CMS has a user role for guests, which has limited functionality and high security to guard off the internal functioning of the organization. The guest gets a fully-featured editor and smart tools to compose, and the admin can define the level of security. They can have secure login from their email ID, which can be granted access on a need basis. After the specific engagement is over, the guest account can be made dormant and reactivated whenever necessary. This protects the intellectual property of the publication and de-risks the fear of misusing access privileges.

Adopt Citizen Publishing Modules and Guest Publisher modules into your newsroom content management system. Hocalwire CMS has incorporated features that help news agencies reach a wider audience. Schedule a demo now to know more about our citizen journaling modules.