For-profit businesses

Human Times. 25 Aug. 2008 (http://www.humantimes.org)

Human Times is a for-profit citizen journalism site that pays their writers based on a percentage of the revenue brought in via advertising. The process by which the writers are paid seems rather convoluted, but it’s still a viable news source written by the common man. Large news wire services such as Associated Press dominate the world news headlines; however, citizen journalists provide most of the content in the travel and food sections.


Newsvine. 25 Aug. 2008. (http://www.newsvine.com)

Newsvine is a citizen journalism site owned by MSNBC Interactive News that uses news wire stories in conjunction with external sources added by users, citizen-written blogs, stories and columns, and user-added multimedia features. The site boasts that users receive 90 percent of the ad revenue generated from their personal column. This site is not a pure citizen journalism site; instead, this site takes a different approach to the concept of a user-controlled media outlet. Users read and vote on top stories and decide which make the front page. The more votes, the higher ranked story. While much of the content isn’t user-produced, users, as a collective body, have control over what they view.