Nothing is Sacred: Journalism Today

Two old friends meet in Delhi to talk (Youtube) about where journalism is and where it is going, through their personal stories. Sanjeev Ghimire is a writer, editor and publisher from Kathmandu, now in Delhi. He is working on Foreigner, an international magazine...

No, not a superinjunction but a Big competition

New charity the Citizen Journalism Educational Trust (CJET), which is supported by The-Latest.Com, has launched with its Big Picture street photography competition. This exciting event has won backing from Time...

How HT made a difference in lead up to International Women's Day

Instead of a distinguished panel choosing an appropriate candidate for HT Woman 2011 award (probably in a closed meeting room), the reputed English newspaper opened the process of nomination and selection to its readers (at least in UP state of India). There might be others...

Citizen Journalism

Every day for the past year I awaken to read stories and to contribute commentary to NowPublic. I discovered NowPublic after having participated for a year or more at MIXX. The rules are different as MIXX is...

Broadcast Launch of Community Radio in Lalitpur

Alapur, Birdha Block, Lalitpur: Community Radio (CR) achieved another milestone on 3rd September 2010. Its first Community Radio (CR) station 'Lalit Lokwani' went on air in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, India, and officially began its broadcast to over 80 villages in Lalitpur...

Freedom to film

WORLDbytes’ crews of young volunteers learning to shoot alternative news programmes are regularly stopped from filming on the streets of London. Yet it is not against the law to film in public spaces, to...

Citizen Journalism within the Creative Media Industry

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 takes on Mainstream News Media

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 Washington,  DC,  on the future of Journalism and news...

Your opinion as a citizen journalist

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...

Why some citizen journalists need to use a pseudonym

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...

Citizen journalism or news gathering?

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...

Political take over of Citizen Journalism

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...

The end of news gathering for web communities?

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...

Global Day of Action, “United for Iran!’ Citizen Journalism?

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...

OhMyNews to contributors: Show Me the Money

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,...

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