| dc.description.abstract | The development of technology and the internet has strengthened the potential
of citizen journalism. It allows citizen journalism to gain public attention by becoming an
alternative source of information. The “issue” is then because this information is shared by
common people, there will be a risk that the information is incomplete or does not meet
the journalism standard. This paper attempts to make an analysis about the practice of the
Community Information Group or Kelompok Informasi Masyarakat (KIM), an unit formed by
the Indonesian government which is in Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The
tasks of KIM include managing and utilizing information and communication to overcome
information gaps and absorb and/or channel people’s aspirations, and it consists of the common
people which have no skills about journalism. Therefore, the writers then by this paper want to
share experiences while giving them a series of journalism workshops or training. Based on the
writers’ experience in providing training for groups of citizen journalists, the most critical things
that need to be addressed in citizen journalists’ news writing are the information completeness
and the writing structures (title, lead, and news structure). In addition, photography is also
another aspect to be addressed. It because of some technical issue which did not know by
the KIM members, such as: composition, framing, heading room proposition, focus between
images and subject, and the news value many photo works taken by citizen journalist are far
from ideals and contain similar news value or theme of events, namely documentation photos
of events or activities. | en_US |
