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- Citizen journalism: Revisiting the concept and developmentsPublication . Min, Seong Jae; Salgado, Susana; Mutsvairo, BruceThe inception of modern citizen journalism takes its roots in the early 2000s, with users appropriating social media platforms and blogs to report, distribute, and consume news. In many places, these digital tools gave a new voice to those long denied by the authoritarian control of the media landscape (Sheen et al., 2024). In historicizing citizen journalism, Hughes (2011) argues that printing of pamphlets backing American colonies’ independence from Britain was a defining moment for citizen journalism practice, suggesting that the press freedom clause of the First Amendment of the US in 1791 was in fact to protect citizen journalists because at that time there were no professional journalists. Scholars such as Miller (2019) and Matheson (2014), however, consider citizen journalism as a relatively new phenomenon, which gained momentum in the late 1990s and early 2000s thanks to the ubiquity of digital technology. Other scholars like Blaagard (2019) dispute appeals to confine citizen journalism to technological networks, preferring to link it to its embodied and political roots.