Posts Tagged with ‘citizen-journalist’

Citizen journalism has been a hot topic across the blogosphere since 9/11, only growing more apparently useful during the resulting Iraq war and the current election. Citizen journalists are the reason imprisoned bloggers have been freed, and through social media like Twitter the citizen journalist has helped stop everything from voter fraud to African poachers.
YouTube recently introduced an entire channel for citizen journalism and reporters, causing many to applaud it for its foresight. While I agree that a channel devoted [...]

Recently, many, many Buddhist monks began protesting day after day the actions and rule of the military junta currently installed as the de facto government of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, a nation located in Southeast Asia. The country’s main force of power, has so far decided to let those walking the streets to continue walking the streets unimpeded, fearing national and international condemnation if it were to take action against the clear message of resistance.
And interestingly enough, more and [...]