Citizen Journalism
Professional journalists and traditional, mainstream media, always point out that their work is ethical and their information are always real, true, checked and valid. Is that really so? And if it is, why do they always have next to say that citizen journalism isn’t? If readers and users had time for checking I’m sure they …
EcoBlogy is long announced and today started first international forum dealing with one of currently most discussed and hot topic and that is environment. It’s environmental citizen journalism event held in Russia and it gathers all people who are interested in preserving what’s left of our environment. Bloggers, journalists, politicians, ecologists and environmentalists will discuss …
Can you imagine citizen journalism 100 years ago? How would it look and function? I’m pretty sure that 100 years ago there was some kind of citizen journalism. Same way traditional and professional journalism existed and reported news, citizens were doing their part. But how? Without developed technology and social media, Internet and mobile phones. …
Organizing citizen journalism trainings, workshops and webinars shouldn’t be that hard or complicated. It requires instructors - people who know or do citizen journalism, not necessary professional journalists, and citizens who have time and wish to upgrade their skills and learn more about new digital media. And mostly it takes people who are already interested …
Mohammed Nabbous is Libyan citizen journalist who was killed while he was reporting about Benghazi battle. He was a citizen journalism pioneer reporter of Libyan protests and person who followed entire riot development. He also was the one who launched Libya AlHurra TV - social media info and live event reports broadcast. Mohammed tragically lost …