CITIZEN JOURNALISM
Is the disseminating of news by the public who are usually first on the scene, this is through social media.



ADVANTAGES


1. The rise of citizen journalism ..according to Tim Pool has with so many technological advances and people exposed to high tech phones and social networks, people who are first in the scene usually have pictures,video clips that they post on social media platforms such as You tube.

2. Pool further says that these incidents and more are changing the landscape of documentary film making, because of the technology used, the distribution platforms that are available and the passion of an ordinary men and women to tell extraordinary stories that were once the domain of professional documentary makers.

3.  factual film making has become a hostage to these new, immediate technologies, many working in the genre praise the development for adding a richer dimension to current affairs and factual documentaries and everyone seems to agree that the genre will never be the same.


DISADVANTAGES


1.  Invades people's privacy

2.  the downside of "FOUND" video. The provenance; it takes money and time to check that it is real and not faked 

3. Just because you can shoot on a camera phone doesn't mean you should. Commissioners will use this as an excuse to cut budgets for factual  information.