OhmyNews (오마이뉴스) is an online newspaper with the motto "Every Citizen is a Reporter". It was founded by Oh Yeon-ho on February 22, 2000. It has inspired a parody site called UhMyNews.
It is the first of its kind in the world to accept, edit and publish articles from its readers, in an open source style of news reportage. About 20% of the site's content is written by the 55-person staff while the majority of articles are written by other freelance contributors who are mostly ordinary citizens. OhmyNews' citizen reporters now number 41,000.
OhmyNews was influential in determining the outcome of the South Korean presidential elections in December 2002 with the election of Roh Moo-hyun. After being elected, Roh granted his first interview to OhmyNews.
The OhmyNews International page features "citizen reporter" articles written in English from all over the globe.
A similar open source perspective on news reporting has been explored by Wikinews, with the added distinction that any user can edit articles at any time, rather than having to submit articles to be vetted by paid staff.
On February 22, 2006, OhmyNews and the Japanese firm Softbank signed an investment contract valued at US$11 million. In 2006 OhmyNews has plans to build a Japan-based citizen participatory journalism site called OhmyNews Japan. The 2nd Citizen Reporters' Forum was held by OhmyNews in Seoul, Korea from July 12 to 15, 2006.
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