Private people can do journalism- Prof Burger
- Posted on Tuesday 9 June 2009 - 18:35Daniel Nana Aforo VoicesofAfrica alumnus in Accra, GhanaThe Head of Communications at Rhodes University Prof. Guy Burger has urged journalists to practice citizenship and vice versa. He said in Africa , citizen journalism is more different since many people are not citizens and have no right to be called "citizen journalists".Loading video...He said one should have consciousness, rights and responsibilities and many people have to understand citizenship in Africa since is a great concept for democracy. According to the communications lecturer the idea of citizen journalism comes mainly from America and is the idea that private people could do journalism, since people have more access to internet they can blog and contribute photographs ,texts to mainstreams media.
This was said in an exclusive interview granted to him by the Voices of Africa Media Foundation at the Deutsche Welle Media Forum in Bonn , Germany . He said to be a citizen journalist one need to understand journalism and journalists should also understand citizenship. Even in your network many people call themselves journalists but they need to learn citizenship and journalism.
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