IHT to run OhMyNews headlines
The International Herald Tribune is going to start running headlines from OhMyNews, the South Korean citizen journalism site, on its website.
Here's the story about it from the IHT:
News sites to share linksOhmyNews International, a South Korean news Web site that collects information with the aid of its users, and the International Herald Tribune agreed this week to exchange Web site links listing headlines.
OhmyNews.com, founded six years ago in Seoul with a motto of "Every citizen is a reporter," features an open- source style of news gathering with a small editing staff and reporting contributions from more than 40,000 freelance writers.
OhmyNews has already begun posting its link to the International Herald Tribune, while the Paris-based newspaper, which is owned by The New York Times Co., is not scheduled to make its connection to the South Korean Web site until later this summer. The OhmyNews site also contains links to Associated Press headlines.
"We are developing our plan to link to OhmyNews," Michael Oreskes, executive editor of the IHT, said. "OhmyNews is an exciting innovation in the world of media. Its approach to covering news is different from ours. But that does not make it less interesting. Not all eyewitnesses are journalists. But all journalism starts with eyewitnesses, or should."
As part of the design for the OhmyNews link, Oreskes said the IHT would clearly label the source of the reports, "but we need to help readers understand what OhmyNews is."
OhmyNews is working to create an international presence by opening an office in Tokyo to start a Japanese language version in cooperation with Softbank, a Japanese Internet services company that is poised to invest $11 million for a 12 percent stake in the site. OhmyNews International Co. was created with the aim of spreading the concept worldwide. OymyNews also plans to expand its Internet television channel, OhmyTV.
According to the company, its site draws more than 600,000 repeat visitors daily, and once exceeded 25 million page views a day in a country of about 48 million people.
OhmyNews also publishes an English language version, paying small freelance fees to writers, who company executives sometimes refer to as "news guerillas." OhmyNews staff members edit and fact-check the articles.
The open source system of news gathering has worked well in South Korea. But it has struggled in the United States, where others have tried to introduce the same concept with sites like Bayosphere, which closed this year.
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