Pemaknaan Etika Jurnalisme Warga oleh Jurnalis Warga Tempo Witness di Wilayah Jawa Tengah

Abstract

Awareness of the importance of conveying phenomena that are around us is in line with proficiency in utilizing information technology to shape citizens like journalists. The ease with which citizens become like journalists awakens the intention of citizens to uphold the truth by becoming citizen journalists. However, various implementations of citizen journalism ethics that are difficult to implement are actually a challenge in itself. It even creates a temptation to apply citizen journalism ethics. These challenges and temptations diverted their original intention as citizen journalists. They do not comply with the code of ethics that applies when carrying out journalistic activities. This research aims to explore the interpretation of citizen journalism ethics by citizen journalists of Tempo Witness in the Central Java region, which is the region with the highest intensity of sending news reports. Qualitative approaches, phenomenological methods, and symbolic interaction theory serve to explore the motives, experiences, and agreements of citizen journalists in implementing citizen journalism ethics. The results showed that the three informants interpreted the ethical aspects of citizen journalism morality well, they maintained good manners and maintained the quality of news reports. However, two out of three informants did not apply citizen journalism ethics by accepting gifts from the sources, in the form of money and goods.