This paper examines how online multi-media citizen journalism reshapes a new culture in Gingliao, an agricultural community in southern Taiwan. Using the two approaches of participatory communication and community empowerment, the study illustrates ways in which local villagers' voices and images can be seen and heard by the outside world when citizen reporters presented news footages to the PeoPo platform of the Public Television Service. By participating in local public lives and reporting continuously on community activities, the community has gained esteem from the rest of the society, government financial support, and the rights to interpret its local culture. Data in this paper are obtained from my participatory observations, in-depth interviews, and analysis of online citizen news.