Malaysiakini is the number 1 news portal in Malaysia. We have received many accolades from many organizations and world leaders but above all those things we hold the success of the Citizen Journalism project to our heart.

Briefly, the Citizen Journalism project is the brainchild of our co founder and CEO Premesh Chandran. With the idea and backed up by a funding from International Center for Journalists of United States, we embarked on the journey of the “road less travelled”. 6 month down the road we managed to create the pioneer group of Citizen Journalist in Malaysia. They cover many news, right from community news up to political conspiracy and the CJ’s as we address them dearly, enjoys the adventure and the impact they have brought upon our beloved country.

An example work of our CJ is displayed in the video below.

This Citizen Journalism training is formulated to take you into more detail aspects of journalism and video journalism. Since this is an intensive course we have devised a compact program which will enable you to be an all rounder in citizen journalism covering aspects of writing and video making. The whole program will be impromptu, raw and breakthrough. During the training you will be thriving to learn what the undergraduates learn in 4 semesters.

The underlying objective is to create good, responsible, ethical and unbiased Citizen Journalist who reports news happening in their surrounding which affects them and the community. Their articles or videos will be picked up by Malaysiakini to be published in their news site for maximum exposure.

In order to join us, you need to attend our training which is conducted through out Peninsular and East Malaysia. Once you have attended the training, you will be interning for few days with Malaysiakini editorial team before you can start contributing news.

Please be on the look out for the next training near your place.