The 5 main types of journalism is user feedback, user-generated content, crowdsourcing, sources, and citizen journalism. User-generated content is the content that is created by the users themselves. Sources are the factual people and other news sources that have the information. Crowdsourcing, also known as distributed journalism, is when a particular story is covered by members of the audience in a more organized way. Citizen journalism is when anyone can be a journalist as long as they are activity involved in creating journalists content. User Feedback is when users are able to communicate their opinions back.
With the post season in the MLB starting there are many accounts on Instagram who are posting about it everyday. Most of these posts have no official connection with Major League Baseball. This would be an example of Citizen Journalism because these people are sharing their own content and reporting on the teams as they see them.
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