OhmyNews International

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'OhmyNews International (OMNI) is the worldwide, English-language site of the South Korean online citizen journalism newspaper OhmyNews. OhmyNews International was established by OhmyNews founder Oh Yeon Ho on February 22, 2004 on the principle that "Every citizen in the world is a reporter." It currently has 1,500 citizen reporters from 100 countries.

The OhmyNews citizen journalism model accepts, edits and publishes articles from its readers, in an open source style of news reporting. OMNI employs two full time editors in South Korea and two full time editors in the United States for nearly 24-hour coverage. Unlike the Korean OhmyNews, OMNI has no staff reporters, but relies upon a combination of amateur (citizen) reporters and citizen reporters who work in the media.

Unlike citizen journalism sites like Backfence and Agoravox, OMNI subjects published articles to rigorous editing and fact checking. Citizen reporters must also agree to a strict code of conduct and register with their real names and provide identification at the time of registration.

In addition to straight news reporting and op-ed submissions, OMNI publishes photo essays, poetry and can attach video and audio to the citizen reporters' articles. OhmyNews International also creates a daily podcast of selected articles, as read by its editors and citizen reporters. All articles are available via RSS feeds.

The 2nd Annual Citizen Reporters' Forum was held by OhmyNews in Seoul, Korea from July 12 to 15, 2006.