Participatory journalism is a type of journalism that branches off into five main categories. These include sources, user feedback, user- generated content, crowdsourcing and citizen journalism. Sources is someone who has credibility and a connection to the story. This could be someone who witness this happening or someone that was involved. This is different from a lot of the other types because it is someone who was there or which isn’t the case for most of the other types of participatory journalism. User feedback is how people respond to the post. They could respond by commenting, writing their own story or even posting a video about the original article. A lot of people do this on social media like Facebook, Instagram and even Tik Tok. Then  Then there is user-generated content. This is when a person who isn’t part of a news outlet submits a video or image of something that happened. However its only considered user generated when theses are shared to news outlets. This could and is normally just a person who happened to be near when it happened.  Crowdsourcing is when someone uses a large group of people to collect and contribute information that can be used. This is used to get information quickly. The last category in participatory journalism is citizen journalism. This is when a person who are not a trained reporter writes a story based on their observation. This has become a common thing with how much social media has been impacting journalism and its content. Epecially in sports, as there are a lot of different types of sports and fans, who want to have a say in the sports world.

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