Jo Twist in the article The Year of Digital Citizenship in BBC news,

discussed how the majority of people if not all started reporting all
incidents that happen around them vie social media regardless of the
traditional ways that used to provide us with news, music, movie or
content. As Twist J. said: 2005 was apparently the year subjects truly
started to do it by themselves. Raising mobiles up high, they didn't simply
messaged, they snapped, shared and reported what is happening around
them' (page1). Twist also talked about the shifting of voices, how citizen
developed to have an important role to capture and report news globally
where it becomes recorded and replayed over and over again through
history, he used the example of 7 July London bombings and 2004 Boxing
Day tsunami. Twist also stated: US video blogger, or vlogger, Steve
Garfield is already showing how politicians themselves can tackle these
tools to engage with voters (page2). And this phenomenon is when
politicians show their voters the negatives and positives about their
community, and that is one way to engage citizens with their community
and rulers. The changing nature of news allows for different voices,
sources, and choices to intensify democratic potentials and allows each
person to join in global or local conversations. This article will help me
explain how the citizen journalism allows different voices and opinions to
be heard and reported worldwide, it allows them to be active members in
the society by reporting events live.

Genesis Henriquez (2012) stated in her blog The Rise and Impact
of Citizen Journalism; In these past few years journalism has undergone
innovative changes in its traditional news format. The presentation of

subject news coverage has given common residents chances to end up

part of a global community by giving prompt news utilizing an assortment
of media' (page1). Henriquez explains how the CNN and other popular
news organizations are empowering citizens to use their phones for
reporting incidents they encounter during their everyday life, which
promotes a more direct clear message. Since citizens are able to capture
and report incidents that certain news networks rather ignore such as
police brutality towards citizens, which sheds the light on the fractured
judicial systems of the US. As Lila King (as cited in Henriquez, 2012) CNNs
Participation Director; we are all carrying cameras, we all have something
to say...(page1). Citizens are able to provide raw, real life experiences
that can never be filtered. This articles provides evidence on how citizens
help report without bias what is really happening to the world, which is
something that most news industries lack nowadays.