Article: ONLINE PUBLISHING - CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Global report.(citizen journalism received its biggest endorsement)

Having secured financial backing and a tie-in with the International Herald Tribune, citizen journalism site Ohmynews is spreading the word. Michael Fitzpatrick reports

Ohmynews' founder and CEO Oh Yeon-ho's slogan is 'Everyone can be a reporter.' Now he wants that model to go global.

Last May citizen journalism received its biggest endorsement yet from the established media when the International Herald Tribune (IHT) announced it would be linking to the Republic of Korea-based OhmyNews agency on its digital version's front page.

The news coincided with the opening of Japanese OMN bureau in Tokyo and the beefing up of OMN's international ...

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