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By: CNN’s iReport perpetrates false Steve Jobs rumor | Salon.com

CNN’s iReport perpetrates false Steve Jobs rumor | Salon.com — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:22:19 +0000

[...] journalism” initiatives have gone under, Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere and most recently, OhMyNews Japan, I’m not convinced that this trend is good for journalists, or for citizens. Still, I applaud [...]

By: Can “we” really be the media? « Lighthousewoman’s Blog

Can “we” really be the media? « Lighthousewoman’s Blog — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:43:37 +0000

[...] point that ohmynews may not be applicable across the universe, globalvoicesonline.org reports that its Japanese counterpart closed its doors in late 2008, after two years in [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Japan: The year in Japanese blogs

Global Voices Online » Japan: The year in Japanese blogs — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:21:06 +0000

[...] media was another topic discussed in blogs. 2008 saw the demise of the Japanese version of the citizen journalism website OhMyNews, as well as a debate on the collapse of journalism, as expressed in a book by Japanese journalist [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Japan: Crisis in primary news reporting

Global Voices Online » Japan: Crisis in primary news reporting — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:10:07 +0000

[...] The shifting landscape of news media in Japan has triggered its fair share of debate recently, with many criticizing the mainstream press for its slip-ups and what some perceive as an attitude problem. Monthly and weekly magazines, meanwhile, are one by one disappearing from the shelves, faced with dwindling sales and a new market environment. Online alternatives such as citizen journalism, on the other hand, yet to reach their full potential elsewhere, have faced major challenges locally, one major South Korean player already having given up on its attempt to enter the Japanese market. [...]

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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:17:37 +0000

[...] journalism seemed to be a fad, judging from the failure of Skoeps.nl, Backfence or Oh My News Japan and the financial difficulties of Oh My News in Korea, not even talking about the irrelevance of [...]

By: Mdb

Mdb — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:05:03 +0000

This is way late as a post, but since I was thinking that one of the thing which sinks initatives like oh my news is apathy, maybe it has some value…

I didn’t follow OMN Japan all that closely, to be honest, but I’d be curious to know how much spadework they did in the real offline world. There aren’t enough people who -know- about citizen media in Japan, but there are plenty of flesh-and-blood organizations, gatherings, cafes, and the like. A lot of times people feel more comfortable with those settings than online precisely because of what anonymity often means here (c.f. 2^-chan).

By: Citizen journalism returns, but is it making the same mistakes? AllVoices tours the UK | Online Journalism Blog

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:46:30 +0000

[...] time. Could it repeat the performance in other countries at similar periods? Possibly. But when OhMyNews hasn’t repeated its success internationally, this is clearly a tough nut to [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Korea: The End of OhmyNews Japan (following Hanako’s)

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:24:02 +0000

[...] the post, “The End of OhmyNews Japan” by the Japanese editor, Hanako, I was curious how Korean bloggers talk about the failure of [...]

By: Annie Paul

Annie Paul — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:07:17 +0000

Thanks for this post. it really makes you think. even if ohmynews has been a failure its a valuable lesson for the rest of the world in what works and what doesn’t in the blogosphere. outrageous that they were paying writers the least money when they’re so central to the project. the business of editors preventing writers from saying what they want how and when they want is a crucial point. my own blog was started after leaving the Jamaican newspaper i wrote for because of frustration at being overedited.

if writers are really good they can edit themselves. and if they aren’t good they won’t attract readers either way it diminishes the role of editorial gatekeepers…

By: hildring - Ohmy News ute av Japan

hildring - Ohmy News ute av Japan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:56:06 +0000

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By: Jeong-yeop Kim

Jeong-yeop Kim — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:33:04 +0000

It seems that Korean OhMyNews(the original one), on the contrary, is still being successful; The reason Korean Ohmynews not failed as in Japan is that the ideological dichotomy and its confrontation of politics is much more apparent and prevalent in all the political atmosphere… Despite that political confrontation, however, there are not many ‘outlets’ through which the political stance especially of the Progressives can be expressed; the conservative mass media prevails. Thus, it would be not surprising that ‘Everyone’s a journalist’ motto attracts so many people despite of a tiny charge for an article.

By: Oiwan Lam

Oiwan Lam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:07:55 +0000

Thanks for the post, i a kind of anticipating this, but don’t know that it would come so fast…