II Citizen Journalist Awards

Bottup.com, the first Spanish-language citizen media, promotes the II Citizen Journalist Awards in order to promote citizen participation in the information.

The winner of this second edition of the Citizen Journalist Awards will win a fully-payed voyage (up to 1.800 €)  as ‘Special Correspondent’ of Bottup to anywhere in the world.

How?

Anyone in the world can participate. They only have to register as a citizen journalist at Bottup and submit their news. The Bottup Newsroom will edit these news (contrasting, verification, correction and widening) and will publish it. All news published until March 15, 2010, enter competition. You can consult the complete documentation here (in Spanish).

Why?

Want to report a grave injustice? Or make a review of the last movie you went to see? Among these options there are a lot of middle terms. All interesting.  The purpose of the Citizen Journalist Awards is to promote a new model of information-from the ground, produced by citizens and worked with professional journalists.

Who?

Bottup.com is the first spanish-language citizen media. Founded in 2006 and launched on 30 January 2007, Bottup has a small newsroom with professional journalists who daily serve to more than 1,200 citizen journalists that make up your network for now. The aim of Bottup is becomes an open platform where any citizen can create and lead their own information communities on topics or specific locations with direct assistance of professional journalists.

Bottup founder is an Ashoka Fellow. Bottup is social and non-profit media venture.

You can learn more about Bottup here.

If you are interested in collaborating with Bottup in any field, or simply request any information, please contact the Bottup editors here.