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OhmyNews (Hangul: 오마이뉴스) is a South Korean online news website with the motto "Every Citizen is a Reporter". It was founded by Oh Yeon Ho on February 22, 2000. It is the first news website in Korea to accept, edit and publish articles from its readers, in an open source style of news reporting.〔Donald MacIntyre (May 29, 2005), ( The People's News Source. ) TIME, Seoul. Retrieved September 4, 2012.〕 About 20% of the site's content is written by the 55-person staff, while most of the articles are written by other freelance contributors who are mostly ordinary citizens. Many anti-South Korean government articles are written by journalists, and time-to-time supports the ideology of DPRK. ==History== ''OhmyNews'' was influential in determining the outcome of the South Korean presidential election, 2002.〔(Rebecca Mackinnon, Author, ''Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom'' )〕 After being elected, President Roh Moo-hyun granted his first interview to ''OhmyNews''. ''OhmyNews International'' is an English language online newspaper that features "citizen reporter" articles written by contributors from all over the globe. Its content is almost 100% citizen reporter. On February 22, 2006, ''OhmyNews'' and Japanese firm Softbank signed an investment contract valued at US$11 million. In 2006 ''OhmyNews'' started to build a Japan-based citizen-participatory journalism site called ''OhmyNews Japan'', launched on August 28 with a famous Japanese journalist and 22 other employees working under ten reporters. These journalists' articles were the object of much criticism; on November 17, 2006, the newspaper ended the citizen-participation aspect of the paper. The South Korean newspaper admitted that ''OhmyNews Japan'' had failed.〔(일본 오마이뉴스의 고전 )〕 In July 2008, all staff of OhmyNews Japan were dismissed, and by the end of August operations had ceased on the site. The 2nd Citizen Reporters' Forum was held by ''OhmyNews'' in Seoul, Korea from July 12–15, 2006.〔(Citizen Reporters' Forum )〕 The 3rd International Citizen Reporters Forum was held by ''OhmyNews'' in Seoul from June 27–29, 2007. On November 24, 2007, ''OhmyNews'' opened a "citizen journalism school" to serve as a "collaborative knowledge center" for classes in journalism, digital cameras and photojournalism. It is located 90 minutes from Seoul in the refurbished building of an elementary school. The faculty will include ''OhmyNews'' editors and other journalists from print, radio and television. There is in-school lodging and dining capacity for 50 guests. On July 8, 2009, Oh Yeon-ho revealed that ''Ohmynews'' was losing up to 700 m won yearly, and appealed to website users to join a voluntary subscription scheme.〔(What Does OhmyNews Mean to You? )〕 Critics argue that ''Ohmynews'' is losing original features as alternative–independent media in financial independence. Oh Yeon-ho said, “70 to 80 percent of our revenue came from corporate advertising and sponsorships. In contrast, contributions from readers only totaled five percent of total revenue.” Oh also said, “We have not received a cent from Lee Myungbak government for central government advertising.”〔 However a government report to National Assembly in 2009 revealed that ''Ohmynews'' received 120 m won (approximately 100,000 dollars) for government advertising from February 2008 to July 2009. An ''Ohmynews'' report said they had received about 870 m won (approximately 900,000 dollars) for government advertising from 2003 to 2007 by introducing government official reports to National Assembly.〔https://ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/view/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0000983200&PAGE_CD=〕 An alternative medium Pressian reported Oh's comments, "I respect Samsung as major business partner," and introduced about 20 percent of the total advertising and cooperation revenue of ''Ohmynews'' is coming from Samsung for years, the biggest business corporate of Korea. On August 1, 2010, ''OhMyNews'' of South Korea announced a change in its format from an "edited citizen journalist news site" to a "blog dedicated to covering and discussing the world of citizen journalism itself," starting the following month that. "Curators are important to our operation. They are given a great deal of trust. In order to maintain credibility amongst our team members, new curators join through recommendations of existing curators. And even amongst the curators we have different levels depending on their experience and contributions. This is to maintain a steady level of quality and credibility with our readers." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OhmyNews」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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