Dan Gillmor reports on OhMyNews:

OhmyNews is transforming the 20th century's journalism-as-lecture model, where organizations tell the audience what the news is and the audience either buys it or doesn't, into something vastly more bottom-up, interactive and democratic.

The influence of OhmyNews is substantial, and expanding. It's credited with having helped elect the nation's current president, Roh Moo Hyun, who ran as a reformer. Roh granted his first post-election interview to the publication, snubbing the three major conservative newspapers that have dominated the print-journalism scene for years.

OhMyNews publishes via website and a weekly print edition. The business has a staff of about 50 and more than 26,000 'citizen-reporters' who contribute news to the site. The 'citizen-reporters' cover politics, economy, culture, arts and science--"but they tend to focus more on personally oriented issues like education, job conditions, and the environment.