Oh Yeon-ho

Oh Yeon-ho (born 18 September 1964) is the founder of "citizen journalism" in South Korea, and CEO of OhmyNews a new approach to cyber-journalism in which ordinary citizens can contribute to a major news organization through being at news events, filing reports, and having their work verified and edited by a trained news staff. He is seen as one of the pivotal figures in the contemporary culture of South Korea.

This is a Korean name; the family name is Oh.
Oh Yeon-ho
Oh Yeon-ho, 2010
Born (1964-09-18) 18 September 1964
Gokseong
Alma materYonsei University
Regent University
Sogang University
OccupationJournalist, Educator
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationO Yeon-ho
McCune–ReischauerO Yŏnho
WebsiteOhmyNews http://www.ohmynews.com

Biography

Oh was born in 1964 in Gokseong. He graduated from Yonsei University in 1988 with a degree in Korean literature. He earned a master's degree in journalism from Regent University in 1998 and has a PhD in mass-communication at Sogang University in Seoul. In 2006, he received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for his work with information technology, most specifically his pioneering development of OhmyNews and the society-transforming contributions that resulted.

Media career
  • 1988-1999 Reporter, Chief Reporter in Monthly magazine Mahl
  • 1995-1997 Correspondent in Washington, DC in Monthly magazine Mahl
  • 22 Feb 2000 Foundation of Internet News site OhmyNews[1]> CEO, The managing editor of Internet News site OhmyNews[1]
  • 2007-2009 President of Korea Internet Newspaper Association
  • 2016~ Head director of Corporation 'ggumtlee'

Awards
  • May, 2001 Awarded: The Media Grand Prize of This Year
  • Oct, 2001 Selection: 55 people of South Korea
  • Dec, 2001 Winning the Grand prize: Democratic Press Award
  • Oct, 2004 Winning the Grand prize: Ahn Jong-Pil Press Award
  • Jan, 2006 Awarded: Management Innovation
  • Oct, 2007 Awarded: Medal of Missouri University
  • OCt. 2018 Awarded: Grundtvig Prize 2018
  • Ranked 16th in 'This year's 50s for IT characters' as UK Information Technology(IT) site (www.silicon.com[2]) (The first place-Ray Ozzie of MS, The second place-Eric Schmidt of Google)
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See also

References
  1. "OhmyNews".
  2. "silicon.com". Archived from the original on 2017-12-19.


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