Reflection and Process: Final Assignment

I've chosen the subject of Citizen Journalism as the main topic. Originally, I had decided to write a feature story comparing between Citizen Journalism and Mainstream Media. But was advised against it because it sounded like an essay than a feature. I had to re-angle and rethink about Citizen Journalism. Returning back to basics, I picked one the most pressing issues associated with Citizen Journalism, its reliability.

This is a draft of questions for the potential interviewees to answer:

1) Do you think Citizen Journalism is a reliable source of news? Why?

2) What is the role of the citizen in journalism with the advent of social platforms like Twitter, blogging, forums and websites?

3) Do you think Citizen Journalism is trying to compete or co-exist with mainstream? How?

4) What can be improved to further citizen journalism's reliability?

5) In your opinion, what is the state of mainstream journalism?

It would be better to consider the personal opinions of my interviewees, directing them with the open-ended approach - whether they supported citizen journalism or not. This concludes the first stage of planning for the final assignment.