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Citizen Journalists Take On Iran’s Government
Citizen journalism (also known as “public”, “participatory”, “democratic” or “street journalism”) is the concept of members of the public “playing an active role in the process of collecting,...
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Citizen Journalism as a Catalyst for Transforming Media
Another incident on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) hits YouTube, and the world is once again asking the question if BART Police are using too much force, the police acted appropriately, or if BART...
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Citizen Journalism and Tweets bring Haiti’s Horror to the World
CNN has people on the ground in Port Au Prince. They use high performance satellite phones and transmission equipment to bring a few shots from Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta to world viewers. That...
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A Tsunami of Global Disaster Communications through Citizen Journalism
The news started hitting California early Saturday morning with an SMS alarm on my mobile phone – a major earthquake struck Chile, and there was a potential of tsunami activity in California and Hawaii...
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Concerns Grow as Violence Against Journalists Continues to Escalate
Local news stations monitored the situation on 1 May 2007 in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park. A peaceful May Day demonstration had moved into the park, and police had failed to correctly guide...
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Citizen Journalism Continues Journey into Unchartered Space
Nobody can foresee events such as natural disasters. They happen, are often tragic, and history records the event as a snapshot in time. Sometimes that history is based on well-documented photos,...
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Formalizing Citizen Journalism
Citizen Journalists come in two major categories. The first is an accidental journalist, or a person who just happens to be at the scene of an event. This person will record the event, or portions of...
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A Situational Benefit of Citizen Journalism
Over the past three years I’ve added study of citizen journalism to my collection of hobbies. One of those subjects where it is understood you may never make a penny income for your labors, but a lot...
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Citizen Journalism Puts a Win in the First Amendment Column
We have all seen the videos of Rodney King’s beating in Los Angeles, Oscar Grant’s death at the BART station in Oakland, Anthony Graber’s arrest for videotaping his own arrest in Maryland, and other...
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