Citizen Journalism

This essay by Regan Burles is the winner of the 2012 Dalton Camp Award for commentary on the link between democracy and the media. On July 7, 2011 journalist Kai Nagata quit his job as CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief. His departure, and the article in ...  

Spanish artist tried for “cooking crucifix” film How ... an Australian blog campaign against government censorship of the Web, video streaming on MySpace and a virtual advent calendar. According to the Italian left, some 2.5 million people ...  

After my last article about the role of social media in journalism I received an email through a friend from a journalism lecturer who shared this TED video with me. The video is a great description of a new layer of journalism that social media has empowered. A form of journalism that places the knowledge [...]Social Media empowers Citizen Journalism originally posted on Mike Saunders - Keynote Speaker and Social Media Coach  

When he can't go out, he keeps in touch via cell phone, Facebook and Twitter, while his partner Ruby Reid maintains a blog to document ... email them to offthebus@huffingtonpost.com. Liam McNeill from Massachusetts provides this report from ...  

'Citizen Journalism' is on the rise around the world as technology and social media are making it easier to share documentation of first hand accounts of events around the world, Reuters reports today. The recent footage has been added to a ...  

ASEERA AL-QIBLIYA, West Bank (Reuters) - Amateur video of Israeli soldiers appearing to watch idly as settlers opened fire on Palestinians throwing stones has emphasised the growing power of "citizen journalism" in the occupied West Bank.  

Amateur video of Israeli soldiers appearing to watch idly as settlers opened fire on Palestinians throwing stones has emphasized the growing power of "citizen journalism" in the occupied West Bank. Shaky footage, captured on Saturday from two angles by residents of Aseera al-Qibliya village, shows bearded residents from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar aiming a hand gun and assault rifle at the crowd, followed by sounds of gunfire. A...  

[View the story "Citizen journalism first hand" on Storify] Citizen journalism first hand My experiences from the front carriage of the May 9th CrossCountry train crash where our train hit 12 cattle at high speed near Oxford. These are the...  

Winner highlights growing pressure for greater public awareness and information transparency as a way of dealing with environmental woesWhen Liu Futang left the confines of Chinese government service and opened his first microblog last April, the retired forestry official could not have imagined that a year later, he would be celebrated as a shining light of citizen journalism.Yet that is what happened on Tuesday when the 65-year-old's expos...  

I am asking you to help. Be part of the solution. Be part of an informed and active army, Citizen Journalists. You can do it. Take the first step. Again, to quote DHS, if you see something for God’s sake say something, write, blog, comment ...  

Citizen journalism website Blottr has launched a new Facebook app so that news and comment can be shared without having to leave the social networking site. Through the app, users will also be able to report news and add content directly to the ...  

Many sites and apps begin with an active user community, but participation often tapers rapidly. Many citizen journalists enjoy writing and sharing information, but it is difficult to ensure a consistent stream of content using the model. Participation ...  

The company will identify ten citizen journalists it believes are delivering the ... wearable video cam that frees people to be active participants in the moment, while recording and sharing on the go.  The company recently launched the first group ...  

Nearly 17 million Americans have reached voting age in the four years since the last presidential election cycle. This year’s pool of youth voters includes 46 million people in the United States, according to the Center for Information & Research on ...  

Some interesting news from the legal front of the Occupy movement: the first photographer arrested at an OWS protest who took his case to trial has been cleared of all charges by a judge. Ironically, the guy wasn't even there to protest: he was ...  

Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera will relaunch its citizen journalism and contribution portal later this year, the network announced late last week. According to a press release, the new service, to be called Sharek, will be available in ...  

What do you get when you combine a photo-sharing mobile platform like Instagram with more geo-location awareness and a Reddit-style voting system for stories breaking all over the world? Answer: Signal, the app citizen journalism may well have ...  

How often have you, as a journalist, been asked to provide proof that you are, in fact, a journalist? At least one NPR.org contributor has been asked several times lately. Alan Greenblatt explains in his story today that increasingly, government officials ...  

When news happens are you ready to record it? Used to be, just traditional professional news jockeys got the story on the air. Now anyone with a camcorder can cover news as it happens...  

by Mark Glaser, 2006 @  http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/09/your-guide-to-citizen-journalism270.html Select one of the options below. Your feedback will help tell CNN producers what to do with this iReport. If you'd like, you can explain your choice in ...  

Channel 4 said on Tuesday that it has discovered at least one video of the city of Homs was altered by the person who uploaded it, with a cloud of smoke added to the picture. The video journalist who took the video admitted that he altered it ...  

On World Press Freedom Day 3 May 2012, WACC President Dr Dennis Smith and General Secretary Dr. Rev Karin Achtelstetter invite members and partners to work towards an international code of ethics for citizen journalism.  

Photographer Paul Conroy, who was seriously badly injured while on assignment in Syria, has warned against reliance on citizen journalism for reporting news.  

[...] Two Bolivian groups organized a citizen journalism contest that wrapped up on December 1. The winners were just announced. (Global Voices) [...]