A day long small workshop on "Guerrilla/Citizen Journalism & Using New Age Media for Civic Engagement" conducted at CEPT University as part of their annual fest Roots 2015 .in Ahmedabad. The participants were from architecture, planning and management programme.

1. GUERILLA
JOURNALIS
M
Workshop-
#CEPTRoots
by: Kumar Manish @kumarmanish9
Mirant Tiwari @MirantTiwari

2. WHAT IS
GUERILLA
JOURNALISM?
"Guerrilla journalism is an alternat
and activist form of news gatherin
and reporting that functions outsi
mainstream media institutions usi
amateur or basic tools like your
mobiles and social media platform
"60,000 titles registered as newspap
7,000 of these are operating
100+ national News Channel "
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3. ADVANTAGES OF
GUERILLA
JOURNALISM?
• You can be your own reporter. You write, publish &
promote for the world to read.
• It also has on the spot footage and pictures of the event;
pictures that society would never be able to see if it
was not for a citizen who took the pictures.
• There is never a small story for citizen journalists. Every
bit of news counts.
• No more dependence on mainstream journalist/

4. SPEED
The internet allows for the
uploading of news and information
instantaneously. Make It Fast!!
You can file the story from anywhere. No
need for huge set up as in case of
mainstream media.

5. SIMPLICITY
Technology has come a long way and even
though many mobile cameras are not
high-tech like the ones that professional
journalists use it still does the trick. Once
a citizen is equipped with a mobile phone
and or with internet and a camera; news
and information can be transferred to blogs
and social networks sites in just moments.
Keep It Simple!!
And Social Media makes a good story viral i
no time.
Reaching to millions of people in form of
tweet or

6. LOW COST
Being a citizen journalist cost you little t
money since most of us are already fully
equipped with a camera and internet. A
need to collect and report news and
information. Negligible Investments!!

7. BRIDGING GAPS
Professional journalists tend to omit the
underlying, not interesting facts of an ev
They want readers and an audience so t
just give us the interesting parts to a sto
Citizen journalists on the other hand do
care about an audience and give reader
full story when reporting (which is usua
posting) a story or an event. Take Risks!

8. NOTABLE GUERILL
JOURNALISM
"When Roh (South Korea
Prez) in 2002) gave his
first exclusive interview
not to any of the national
newspapers or TV
stations, but to
OhmyNews, a citizen
journalism website."
Why?
OhmyNews functions in
an open-source style,
with up to 70 percent of
all its articles written by
freelance contributors,
most of whom are
ordinary citizens

9. NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM
ARAB
Spring
"Mohamed Bouazizi"
Cellphones -Record-
Viral

10. NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM
Occupy
WALL STREET
-160,000 fb LIKES
-You tube videos
-www.occupywallst.org
#occupywallst

11. NOTABLE GUERILLA JOURNALISM
2013
Protest In
Turkey
"Gezi Park"

12. GUERILLA JOURNALISM IN INDIA
CITIZEN
MATTERS
Closer to home this Bangalore based initiative
Of Subramaniam Vincent and Meera K. Is
Stirring Citizen Generated News.
- LiveMint

13. GUERILLA JOURNALISM IN INDIA
1. The Viewspaper (Paper run entirely by the Indian
youth): India's active e-newspaper for citizen
journalism
2. CGnet: Peoples website of Chhattisgarh :A citizen
Journalism initiative in the state of Chhattisgarh in
Central tribal India
3. Participatory Citizen Journalism: Merinews (India)-
India’s first citizen journalism news portal. It is a
people’s news platform of the people, by the people,
for the people, providing power to the people and
empowering democracy.
.

14. Some Disadvantages
IT IS YOU, and only You.
•One person account, biased & one sided
•Citizen journalists do not have the traini
experience of professional journalist, no
they be held to?
•Citizen journalism is more of a hobby th
a formalized way to contribute to news.

15. HOW & WHY TO MAINTAIN THIS?
• SHARE, important information within your city.
• IMPROVE, the Community around.
• DISTRIBUTE, the expertise you have around you.
• START, a Revolution.

16. @hatsnbeards
/hatsnbeards
thanks,
Kumar Manish
@kumarmanish9
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