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How can The Guardian

newspaper utilise the rise in citizen and hyperlocal journalists in order to combat the

current journalism crisis?

NewsValues(Galtung&Ruge1965;Harcup,T&ONeilD,2001)

EmpowermentofCitizens(Lewis,2006) JournalismCrisis(Peters,C.,&Broersma2013)

Asweprogressintotechnologicalage(Fenton,2010)theconventionalmethodsofconsumingnewshasundoubtedlychanged(Nguyen,A.2003).Traditionally,citizensconsumetheirnewsthroughTVnewsbroadcastsanddailynewspapers,howeverinthepastdecadetheconsumptionofnewshasshiftedtodigitalformats.Nowcitizensareabletoconsumetheirnewsviaasmartphone,tabletorInternetwebpages.IwillbeinvestigatinghowTheGuardiannewspapercanutilisethisnewtrendtopreventthewell-documentedJournalismCrisis.

Galtung,J.,&Ruge,M.H.(1965).Thestructureof foreignnewsthepresentationof theCongo,CubaandCyprusCrisesinfourNorwegiannewspapers.Journal of peace research,2(1),64-90.

Lewis,J.(2006).Newsandtheempowermentofcitizens.european journal of cultural studies,9(3),303-319.

Peters,C.,&Broersma,M. J. (Eds.). (2013).Rethinking journalism: Trust and participation in a transformed news landscape.Routledge.

Nguyen,A.(2003).Thecurrentstatusandpotentialdevelopmentofonlinenewsconsumption:Astructuralapproach.First Monday,8(9).

Fenton,N.(2010).News in the digital age.na.

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