Citizen journalism, also known as public or participatory journalism, is the act of citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information". The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires.

In short, the citizen journalist sees news, reports it, and where possible, provides some kind of photo or video of the event. The intent is to report news in your community in a fair, impartial and balanced way.

CitrusDaily needs such people. It is not possible for any mainstream news organization to report ALL of the news, because of limited resources and people. However, many Citizen Journalists can fill in the gap. We need stories, photos and news from across Citrus County.

Are you up to the task? If so, please take the time to fill in a few brief details about yourself in the spaces below. And let us say "Thank You" for your participation.