Využití Citizen Journalism v nevládních neziskových organizacích

This thesis deals with a possibility of connecting citizen journalism with non-governmental non-profit organizations due to lack of public knowledge of these organizations. Firth part of the thesis explains basic terms that are fundamental for this thesis. Here is explained what is citizen journalism, its origin and connection to online journalism. The term non-governmental non-profit organization (NGO) is also clarified. Then author defines basic issues of getting NGOs into classic media and points out causes of failure, resulting in low public interest in this matter. Second part of this thesis shows how this issue is dealt with in the world and developing countries by using CJ and in the Czech republic. The thesis also mentions technologies used in advanced countries to help NGOs better exploit citizen journalism. In the last part of this thesis are outlined general recommendations concerning the possibility of using citizen journalism and suggests specific solution for a non-governmental non-profit organization.