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Internet users transformed into news reporters
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by mtippett | March 2, 2007 at 08:33 am
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I'm constantly amazed at the international reach of this story. here is the Middle East Times in Egypt talking about our deal with the AP:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA -- As picture-taking mobile telephones and digital movie cameras grow ubiquitous, Internet users worldwide are being recruited as citizen news reporters.In December Yahoo launched YouWitnessNews, a Web site that posts offerings from users after the submissions pass muster with professional editors.
Founded almost two years ago, news Web site NowPublic.com taps into legions of people that post pictures, videos, or commentary online.
NowPublic boasts more than 60,000 contributing "reporters" in more than 140 countries, and promises to quickly locate potential witnesses or news gatherers close to breaking events - from natural disasters to terrorist attacks.
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
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at 09:18 on March 2nd, 2007
We really need to reach out in a more meaningful way to Egyptian bloggers - no wonder that people in the Middle East are fascinated by the prospect of a wide-open news media.
Have a read of this very interesting article on Egyptian bloggers in The Nation.
The reporter, Negar Azmi, writes about
Hossam el-Hamalawy, who publishes arabawy.org :"We're exploding," he tells me. "The government didn't see it coming, and it's creating a domino effect. You read bloggers in Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, and they take pride in the Egyptian gains. Once you get this far, there's no going back. You can't take the plug out." As recently as January 2005, there were only about thirty blogs in the country. "My dream is that one day there will be a blogger with a digital camera in every street in Egypt."