Yeon-ho Oh: OhMyNews: the story and future of citizen journalism

From its start in February of 2000, OhmyNews was amongst the first citizen journalism organizations in the world, and remains the most successful. With more than 60,000 contributors and about 70 staffers, the Web site combines the best of the old journalism school -- a strong editorial department that fact-checks articles -- with the promise of the new -- giving voice to regular citizens on issues that matter to them. In so doing, OhmyNews has also found one of the new business models for journalism today: by crowdsourcing reporting, it can keep costs low and pour money into in-depth reporting.

Oh Yeon-ho, the founder of OhmyNews, will speak about the organization's genesis and its principle of "every citizen is a reporter." In addition, he will address what makes citizen journalism a successful model so far in Korea, what barriers it faces in the future, and what the next steps are for OhmyNews, both organizationally and technologically.