Bosshart, Stefan Schönhagen, Philomen 2013 tWith the rise of Web 2.0 the discussion about professional journalism changing radically or even becom-ing obsolete in the future has intensified. Up to now, empirical findings mainly stem from research on(micro-)blogging and show its complementary rather than equivalent function compared with profes-sional journalism. Amazingly, the performance of collaborative amateur news websites with an explicitlyjournalistic approach has rarely been studied so far. Therefore, this paper compares the coverage of Ger-man Wikinews with a professional German mass media website and finds significant differences in variousdimensions. It thus contributes to the growing empirical evidence and literature on citizen journalism. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/303741 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/303741/files/Bosshart_Sch_nhagen_2013_Amateurs_Striving_for_News_Production.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.scoms.2013.09.001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Studies in Communication Sciences. - 2013, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 139-147 Citizen journalism Collaborative news production Journalistic standards Content analysis Wikinews info:eu-repo/classification/udc/65 Amateurs striving for news production. Can they competewith professional journalism? http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501