Framing Questions: Week 8

1. Citizen journalists aren’t able to cover global events as well as security-restricted news, such as probably top government officials, especially the president. They probably also have a more difficult time getting access to high-profile figures, such as company heads. Is there a way for citizen journalists and legacy news sources to cooperate and still sustain both news sources? Local news is free and major news, global news, breaking news, harder to access? Take a survey to get to the article?

2. I found it interesting that a lot of citizen journalists didn’t seem as concerned with revenues. Do they honestly think they can survive without real revenue support or will time gradually separate the real players from the temporary news sources?

3. What are some of the business models being thrown around and how sustainable are they? Is there a way to force revenue through advertisers before you access the article instead of clickable banners? Will major sources become even more of an oligopoly as news companies may be forced to condense and buy each other out?