i moved to a new place a few days ago, so i haven’t been able to work or blog much, but i thought i really should write a quick blog on this:
asiamedia reports that ohmynews has been launched in japan with the help of softbank, a company owned by masayoshi son (or jeong-eui son), a third generation korean-japanese and currently the richest man in japan, according to this article on forbes.
it’s been 6 years since the launch of the original ohmynews in korea, which became a breakthrough success glocally and globally as a leading grassroots journlism site, attracting both everyday citizen contributors around the world as well as famous figures including howard rheingold.

i remember reading in a journal article a while ago that the level of trust the japanese have in the national news media is lower than that of the korean public, so it’d be very interesting to see how ohmynews japan develops.

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