The extent to which citizen journalism has challenged the practice of professional journalism With the popularity of the Internet and the rapid development of all types of mobile communications, citizen journalism has played a crucial role in the development of professional journalism. Storytelling is not only just the right of journalists, but also the right of ordinary citizens to tell stories and publish news in recent years. From the citizen journalism and professional journalism of the respective characteristics of the analysis, they have their own advantages and disadvantages. Analysis on the development trend of citizen news and professional News, they challenge each other and assist each other. Timeliness is one of the challenges to professional journalism. …show more content…
Even appeared the news of malicious defamation, such as Kimi Qiao is died of sexual abuse of the statement in the crazy spread of the Internet. The news was released a few minutes later, Weibo set off a controversy storm. The fans of Kimi Qiao were curse with rumor-mongers on the Weibo, even if the official media has already released the news of Kimi Qiao died of depression suicide. Until the major professional media reported the news of Kimi Qiao died of depression suicide, the online controversy storm was gradually calm down. This example illustrates the significance of professional news authoritativeness. Public opinion is only the beginning of a truth, but the details of the matter has not been confirmed, it will naturally produce a variety of rumors in the course of the communication . When rumors close to people's cognition, even if it is not the truth, people will tend to their perception. The largest difference between citizen journalism and professional journalism is that citizen journalism often finds news but not in-depth development. A professional journalist from finding news, judging the