Possibly it’s good to know more about what we are actually doing as news gathers, citizen journalist. About the platforms we publish on and the reasons for the site owners being in business. A survey report...
HUFFINGTON'S WORDS VERY RELEVANT TO CITIZEN JOURNALISM Ariana Huffington, owner of the hugely successful Huffington Post blog, and frequent guest on MSNBC News, was asked to give a speech in...
Whilst drinking my early morning coffee, I often read articles on Nowpublic and then daily news. I had a very pleasant surprise this morning when I read a comments that was voicing an opinion that I had...
I personally use a pseudonym when publishing articles as in the past I have had death threats and I live in a country where it cost very little to have someone murdered. In fact many Filipino...
For many years I have been writing articles on every subject under the sun, I have never been a very good writer, but I do like writing and making people think. I have always tried to surmount my biasness and...
In the world of politics, citizen journalism on the internet has become to look very dangerous, in its context and ability to attack political indoctrination and propaganda. The normal news media can be...
Murdock has sent a signal that could relate to big copyright problems on the internet. That signal being charging for news on the internet, of course News Corp’s is only a part of news providing services on...
On the 25th July 2009, an internet site called United for Iran is coordinating a Global Day of Action. The organization states that it’s non political and is condemning the lack of human rights of the...
Participatory Journalism, which includes citizen journalism has gained popularity across the globe, including South Korea when they launched OhmyNews.com in 2000. However in the past year it has suffered...
Korean-based citizen journalism site OhMyNews has asked its 100,000 contributors to pony up some hard cash, not just more stories, a blog on Forbes has just reported. The posting comes from PlanetSizedBrain,...
Google is moving deeper into the news sphere with Youtube's new Citizen News. Besides aggregating links via Google news, the search giant is leveraging Youtube's existing upload tools to encourage eyewitnesses to contribute newsworthy material to Youtube itself.This isn't new...
I have for many years been involved in citizen journalism on the internet, in fact since just after the birth of news community sites around about 2005/6. But since 1997 I had been writing small articles and placing them in newsgroups and forums etc. Today...
Funny that it is new media saving journalists rather than the mainstream, all things considered. "NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists,...
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The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night...
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"The argument that the LTTE has reached its use-by date is also debatable. The numbers do not seem to add up. If all the civilians trapped in Vanni are LTTErs, if a significant number of Tamils living in the non-Vanni areas are LTTErs, if the majority of the Tamil diaspora...
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