SEC Investigates Steve Jobs Heart Attack Rumor

Update: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the citizen-journalist report of Steve Jobs' alleged heart attack, following that report's effect on Apple's stock. Do you think the report was...

Vegas in trouble

Last week I was in Vegas for Blogworld and was struck by the inability of my fellow new media peers to see the collapsing city around them.  While the practictioners of new media and citizen journalism were...

Citizen Journalism Has Empowed people In India !

India has numerous Television News Channels but very few of them have invested heavily into recruiting and training Journalists.Generally one journalist is stationed in the capital of any state.Some of India's states are bigger than many countries of the world, so the...

Being Pigeon Holed – Good citizen journalism

As a citizen journalist I hate to be placed into an incorrect pigeon hole, by those that disagree with my center point view, from where I try to find the truth. The problem is if what you see as being the truth...

NowPublic Buys Truemors

You may have read today’s news about our acquisition of Truemors. For those of you not familiar with the site it is the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki. Guy is a legend in Silicon Valley as a best selling author, VC...

A Modest Proposal for NowPublic.com: "FLAG AS PROPAGANDA!!!"

Being a newbie to NowPublic.com, I cannot speak with authority;  but more than a few of the posted articles over the last news cycle appear to be rewritten press releases from corporate and perhaps some...

Boris chickens out of chat with The-Latest

Marc Wadsworth Chicken: Boris JohnsonEmbattled London Mayor Boris Johnson has chickened out of an interview with The-Latest. His cowardly decision comes at a time when he needs all the friends he can get. In May, after his surprise election, I attempted to discuss race...

Is multi-culturalism a bad idea?

Brainy Britons do not think that multi-culturalism is an ideal to which it is worth aspiring. That was the finding of a readers survey conducted by a politically independent organisation whose members include leading academics, architects, charity bosses and engineers. A...

I'm Not Fat; I Have A 30-Pound Tumor!

I thought I had gained a few pounds; I tried all kinds of diets, and it seemed that a few even worked, but I never totally lost all the weight. I chalked it up to the fact that sometimes you DO gain weight over any...

NowPublic: Reuters 2.0?

" Leonard Brody, founder of NowPublic, rejects the term "citizen journalism," which has often been applied to his business. "What [our contributors] do is not journalism. We don't call it that and never have." In...

First UK citizen journalism site to force resignation of gov official

Update: Video interview with citizen journalist Marc Wadsworth on ITV's London Tonight: http://www.itvlocal.com/london/news/?void=204011The-Latest.Com was created in January 2006, as Britain's first dedicated citizen...

I Found A Severed Foot

When five running-shoe clad, severed feet washed up on the shores of Sandra Malone's home province of British Columbia, Canada over the course of the last 11 months, it raised all sorts of questions. When a sixth...

Weekly Radio Spin: You May Now Spin the Bride

Listen to this week's edition of the "Weekly Radio Spin," the Center for Media and Democracy's audio report on the stories behind the news. This week, we look at the spin around same-sex marriage, Christine Todd...

Eyewitness To Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

South Africa was plagued by xenophobic-related violence last month. Photographers Halden Krog, Alon Skuy, Tebogo Letsie, Lebohang Mashiloane, James Oatway, Moeketsi Moticoe, Muntu Vilakazi and myself spent day and night documenting the horror that is driving thousands of...

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