Slashdot claims in its tagline "NEWS FOR NERDS. STUFF THAT MATTERS", and has stories surrounding digital technology and the internet, ranging from legal and moral issues to trivial and entertaining subjects. Ohmynews international is a spin-off of the original Korean based site, and runs off of UGC, in this case, news stories and editorials.
Slashdot's submission process entails linking to others content mostly, many don't actually write longer stories, the only exception being if you wish to write an editorial, in which case you e-mail Slashdot your idea and they'll tell you if they're even remotely interested in it. This is much different than Ohymnews' process, which runs off article's the users have written themselves, so it differs from something like Huffington post, which does gate watching as well. Ohymynews has one dedicated editor for their standard site, and one for their international site.
Ohmynews has a clear list of 10 ethical requirements of "citizen reporters", here's a few:
"1. The citizen reporter must work in the spirit that "all citizens are reporters," and plainly identify himself as a citizen reporter while covering stories."
"4. The citizen reporter does not damage the reputation of others by composing articles that infringe on personal privacy. "
"6. The citizen reporter does not use his position for unjust gain, or otherwise seek personal profit. "
as well a list of conditions they must agree to when submitting a story, some more examples:
"4. When an article I submit has or will be simultaneously submitted in another medium, I will clearly state this fact to the editorial staff."
"8. Legal responsibility for defamation in articles lie entirely with the citizen reporter."
Slashdot will not post every story that is submitted, unlike Ohmynews, which as two sections, 'Ingul' is for stories formally accepted by the Ohmynews staff, and 'Saengnamu', which wasn't officially approved by the staff or considered an 'article'. Slashdot stories are handpicked by the editors, their FAQ page states :
"Slashdot gets hundreds of submissions every day. Every day our authors go through these submissions, and try to select the most interesting, timely, and relevant ones to post to the homepage. There are probably as many reasons for stories to get rejected as there are stories, but here are some of the more common ones:
- Badly worded subjects
- Broken or missing URLs
- Confusing or hysterical sounding writeup
- It might be an old story
- It might just be a busy day and we've already posted enough stories
- Someone already submitted your story
- Your story just might not be interesting!"
Thanks. Corey.
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