OhMyNews

When OhmyNews went online on Feb. 22, 2000, its four founders ventured into unknown territory with 727 Korean citizen reporters. The man behind the philosophy that "every citizen is a reporter" is Mr. Oh Yeon Ho, a former monthly magazine journalist, who hoped to update the OhmyNews site once a week with a smattering of stories from around the country.

Oh's dream of countering the stranglehold of conservative media coverage quickly caught the attention of Korean netizens. Articles started pouring in, site traffic exploded and five years later the work of some 37,000 citizen reporters is attracting not only the interest of advertisers (OhmyNews turned a profit in late 2003) but also traditional media and academics around the world.

Now OhmyNews is building a global network of citizen reporters writing in English on OhmyNews International, which opened last June.

March 20, 2005 | POSTED BY JONATHAN DUBE

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