South Korean online news website
OhmyNews
오마이뉴스
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Available in
| Korean
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Owner
| Oh Yeon Ho
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Revenue
| US$70,000
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URL
| www
.ohmynews
.com
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Commercial
| Yes
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Registration
| Required
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Launched
| 22 February 2000
; 24 years ago
(
2000-02-22
)
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Current status
| Online
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OhmyNews
(
Korean
:
오마이뉴스
) is a South Korean online
news website
. It was founded by
Oh Yeon Ho
on 22 February 2000.
The site's motto is "Every Citizen is a Reporter", which reflects its status as the first news website in Korea to accept, edit, and publish articles from its readers in an
open source
-style.
[1]
About 20% of the site's content is written by the 55-person staff; most articles are written by freelance contributors.
Political position
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OhmyNews
is consistently considered
liberal
and
progressive
.
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
This is in contrast to the somewhat more moderate liberal
Hankyoreh
and
Kyunghyang
.
[6]
It is also considered
anti-imperialist
,
anti-racist
, and anti-
xenophobic
. However, anti-China/anti-Japan government
left-wing nationalist
media is common among South Korean liberals. The site is also generally critical of the 'hegemonic nationalism' of the Chinese and Japanese governments, and supports 'resistance nationalism'. The site strongly criticizes and opposes anti-Japanese and anti-Chinese sentiment that is expressed as racism rather than anti-imperialism.
[7]
OhmyNews
is not anti-American, but often criticizes U.S. foreign policy.
[8]
It opposes improving
Japan-South Korea relations
and is particularly negative about cooperation in the military sector. In 2022, an article on
OhmyNews
criticized the U.S. effort to improve Japan-South Korea relations to counter China as sacrificing South Korea.
[9]
History
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OhmyNews
was influential in determining the outcome of the
2002 South Korean presidential election
.
[10]
After being elected, President
Roh Moo-hyun
granted his first interview to
OhmyNews
.
OhmyNews International
is an English language online newspaper that features "
citizen reporter
" articles written by contributors from all over the globe. Its content is almost 100% citizen reporter.
On 22 February 2006,
OhmyNews
and
Japanese
firm
Softbank
signed an investment contract valued at US$11 million. In 2006
OhmyNews
started to build a Japan-based citizen-participatory journalism site called
OhmyNews Japan
, launched on 28 August with a famous Japanese journalist and 22 other employees working under ten reporters. These journalists' articles were the object of much criticism;
[
citation needed
]
on 17 November 2006, the newspaper ended the citizen-participation aspect of the paper. The South Korean newspaper admitted that
OhmyNews Japan
had failed.
[11]
In July 2008, all staff of OhmyNews Japan were dismissed, and by the end of August operations had ceased on the site.
The 2nd Citizen Reporters' Forum was held by
OhmyNews
in Seoul, Korea from 12?15 July 2006.
[12]
The 3rd International Citizen Reporters Forum was held by
OhmyNews
in Seoul from 27?29 June 2007.
[
citation needed
]
On 24 November 2007,
OhmyNews
opened a "citizen journalism school" to serve as a "collaborative knowledge center" for classes in journalism, digital cameras and photojournalism. It is located 90 minutes from
Seoul
in the refurbished building of an
elementary school
. The faculty will include
OhmyNews
editors and other journalists from print, radio and television. There is in-school lodging and dining capacity for 50 guests.
[
citation needed
]
On 1 August 2010,
OhmyNews
of South Korea announced a change in its format from an "edited citizen journalist news site" to a "blog dedicated to covering and discussing the world of citizen journalism itself," starting the following month.
"Curators are important to our operation. They are given a great deal of trust. In order to maintain credibility amongst our team members, new curators join through recommendations of existing curators. And even amongst the curators we have different levels depending on their experience and contributions. This is to maintain a steady level of quality and credibility with our readers."
[13]
Financing
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Critics
[
who?
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argue that
OhmyNews
is losing original features as alternative?independent media in financial independence. Oh Yeon-ho said, "70 to 80 percent of our revenue came from corporate advertising and sponsorships. In contrast, contributions from readers only totaled five percent of total revenue." Oh also said, "We have not received a cent from
Lee Myung-bak
government for central government advertising."
[14]
However a government report to National Assembly in 2009 revealed that
OhmyNews
received 120 million
won
(approximately 100,000 dollars) for government advertising from February 2008 to July 2009.
[15]
An
OhmyNews
report also indicated that they had received about 870 million won (approximately 900,000 dollars) for government advertising from 2003 to 2007 by introducing government official reports to National Assembly.
[16]
An alternative medium Pressian reported Oh's comments, "I respect Samsung as major business partner," and introduced about 20 percent of the total advertising and cooperation revenue of
OhmyNews
is coming from Samsung for years, the biggest business corporate of Korea.
[17]
On 8 July 2009, Oh Yeon-ho revealed that
OhmyNews
was losing up to 700 million won yearly, and appealed to website users to join a voluntary subscription scheme.
[14]
OhmyNews International
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In September 2010,
OhmyNews
International
changed its format from citizen journalism to becoming a forum about citizen journalism. Verifying facts from around the world became too difficult. The old site is an archive and does not accept new articles.
[18]
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See also
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References
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- ^
MacIntyre, Donald (29 May 2005).
"TIME The People's News Source"
. Archived from
the original
on 4 December 2018
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
- ^
Jeff Kaye, Stephen Quinn, ed. (2010).
Funding Journalism in the Digital Age: Business Models, Strategies, Issues and Trends
. Peter Lang. p. 77.
ISBN
978-1-4331-0685-9
.
"Other than that we are pretty liberal." OhmyNews also publishes a weekly broadsheet newspaper in Korean ( circulation about 150,000 ) where the best of the web makes it into print.
- ^
Hojeong Lee, Joong-Hwan Oh, ed. (2021).
Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea
.
Rowman & Littlefield
. p. 21.
ISBN
978-1-7936-4229-5
.
As a progressive political press, OhmyNews addresses issues with social significance while the mainstream media ignore or underreport them.
- ^
Hojeong Lee, Joong-Hwan Oh, ed. (2005).
AEJMC News: The Newsletter of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Volume 39
. The Association. p. 33.
... State between two polarizing online news Reporting a Humanitarian Tragedy : A University of New Jersey ? This paper media, the progressive OhmyNews and the Framing Analysis of Chinese Newspaper analyses how images published in ten ...
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"Defection casts light on rift within ruling party ahead of election"
.
Korea Economic Institute of America
. 23 February 2022
. Retrieved
18 February
2023
.
Jeong's posting came as a shock to the DPK because the former journalist who worked with left-wing news outlet OhmyNews, helped former Prime Minister Lee's campaign as his public relations chief during the party's primary.
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"The Growing Role of Social Media in South Korea"
.
Korea Economic Institute of America
(in Korean). 13 December 2011
. Retrieved
26 December
2021
.
Another very important contribution to Roh's victory came from internet news service OhmyNews, a liberal-leaning news service originally built to provide an alternative news source for younger generations "disillusioned with the biased reporting of traditional media".
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"韓國은 우리 싫어하죠?" 中國親舊 質問에 말門이 막혔다"
(in Korean). 12 January 2022
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
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"
"美國이 돌아왔다!" 張惠英의 이 發言 매우 아쉽다"
["The U.S. is back!" Jang Hye-young's remarks are very unfortunate.] (in Korean).
OhmyNews
. 2 March 2021
. Retrieved
4 December
2021
.
張惠英 議員이 모두發言에서 한 美國 外交政策에 對한 支持意思 表明은 現實 國際關係에 對한 無知와 浪漫主義가 아닌지 憂慮스럽다. 只今까지 美國이 人權의 이름으로 國際介入을 했을 때 人權이 成長하긴 커녕 그 나라의 人權이 逆으로 後退한 境遇가 많았기 때문이다.
[Rep. Jang Hye-young's expression of support for US foreign policy is concerned about whether it is ignorance and romanticism about real international relations. This is because, until now, when the United States has intervened internationally in the name of human rights, there have been many cases where human rights in that country have retreated in reverse, rather than improving human rights.]
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"
'韓·日關係 改善'에 神經 쓰는 美國의 眞짜 속내"
.
OhmyNews
(in Korean). 13 December 2022
. Retrieved
21 December
2022
.
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Mackinnon, Rebecca.
"Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom"
.
NewAmerica.net
. Archived from
the original
on 26 June 2012
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
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"日本 오마이뉴스의 古典"
(in Korean). 20 December 2006
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
- ^
"OhmyNews International"
.
english.ohmynews.com
. Archived from
the original
on 10 October 2012
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
- ^
"About | OhmyNews International"
. International.ohmynews.com. 22 February 2000. Archived from
the original
on 23 March 2015
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
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a
b
"What Does OhmyNews Mean to You? - OhmyNews International"
.
english.ohmynews.com
. Archived from
the original
on 17 February 2012
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
- ^
"노무현 政權,오마이뉴스에 廣告集中 : Save Internet 뉴데일리"
(in Korean). Newdaily.co.kr. 10 July 2009
. Retrieved
4 September
2012
.
- ^
"노무현 政府 期間, 조중동이 政府廣告額 1~3位"
(in Korean). 23 September 2008. Archived from
the original
on 24 July 2011
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
- ^
"<오마이뉴스>도 三星 칼럼 美揭載 '後暴風' - 프레시안"
(in Korean).
Pressian
.com. 25 February 2010
. Retrieved
4 September
2012
.
- ^
"OhmyNews"
. Archived from
the original
on 28 November 2019
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
- ^
Meyer, J.D.
"OhmyNews redesigning to become citizen journalism blog"
.
Digital Journal
. Archived from
the original
on 4 December 2017
. Retrieved
29 November
2022
.
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