Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalists Focus On Israeli Occupation

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Citizen Journalism Israeli Occupation, Reuters, Citizen Journalism, Citizen Journalism Palestine, Citizen Journalism Israel, Media News

* Armed with camcorders, Palestinians challenge troops * Footage key to accounts of West Bank confrontations By Noah Bro...

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WHO Finds Social Media Indispensable in Managing Global Health Crises

David J. Olson | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: World Health Organization, Citizen Journalism, WHO Iodine Pills, WHO Twitter, Who, Strategic Health Operations Centre, WHO Facebook, WHO Iodine, WHO Social Media, Japan Tsunami, Japan Iodine Pills, Shoc, Japan Iodine, Technology News

WHO's tweets and Facebook messages had paid off. The salt panic in China dissipated as quickly as it had started. WHO had learned of the problem through social media and had rectified it in the same way.

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Today, We Are All Journalists

Chris DeVito | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Iran Human Rights, Human Rights, Internet-Crackdown, Internet Freedom, Citizen Journalism, Middle East, Press Freedom, World Press Freedom Day, Iran, Iran Press Freedom, Journalism, Freedom House, Video, World News

It's time to start paying attention to what can be done to both reduce the dangers of reporting and increase, if not simply safeguard, basic freedoms. This is important on all days, but especially today, World Press Freedom Day.

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Tips On Being A Good Citizen Journalist

AlterNet | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Citizen Journalism, Tips on Being a Good Citizen Journalist, Occupy May Day, Occupy Wall Street, Media News

As police departments around the country are reportedly mobilizing to shut down protests and actions for May Day, it's worth looking back over Witne...

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Student Photojournalist Beaten and Arrested While Taking Photos of Police in Public

Larry Atkins | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Photos, Citizen Journalism, First Amendment Rights, First Amendment, Police, Journalism, Photojournalism, Temple Student Arrested, Ian Van Kuyk, Photographing Police, Media News

Asserting his First Amendment right to take photos of police action in public, Van Kuyk refused the officers' request for him to stop taking the photos, but the officers arrested him and charged him with obstruction, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.

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Internet Cafes Spark Fight for Women's Rights

Shannon Galpin | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Social Media, Women's Rights, Young Women for Change, Citizen Journalism, Afghanistan, Mountain2mountain, Internet Cafes, Voice2voice, Internet Cafes Afghanistan, Internet Cafes Women's Rights, Impact News

On Women's International Day, young women in Kabul celebrated the opening of the first women's internet cafe. The first of its kind in Afghanistan, the Sahar Gul cafe allows a safe environment for women to use the internet, to socialize.

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Huff Post's 'Cover the Conventions' Contest: Some Sample Submissions

Laura Paull | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Citizen Journalism, Democratic National Convention, Republican National Convention, Off the BUs Cover the Conventions Contest, offthebus2012, Offthebus, 2012: Our Election, Slidepollajax, Elections 2012, Howard Fineman, Tampa, Charlotte, 2012 Elections, Off the Bus Contest, Politics News

You read the news. Or watch, or listen to it. Maybe you sometimes think: I could do that!

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Watch: 60 Seconds of Social Media

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: turntable.fm, Citizen Journalism, Sxsw, Crowdsourcing, SXSW Interactive, Sxsw Innovations, Social Media Platforms, Sxsw Social Media, Entertainment News

As I lie on my back, felled by the SXSW flu, I bring you another week of social media learning. We wrap up the hot topics at SXSW Interactive -- such as the rise of citizen journalism -- and take a look at crowdsourcing.

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HuffPost Citizen Journalists At The Conventions: We Are The History We Have Been Waiting For

Howard Fineman | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Dnc 2012, 2012 Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention, Citizen Journalism, Huffington Post Off the Bus, Off the Bus, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Rnc 2012, Election 2012, Republican National Convention, Offthebus, Citizen Journalists, Politics News

In spite of the ever-deepening flood of candidate advertising, politics (and journalism) today are do-it-yourself, web-based and socially-connected enterprises. Which is where you come in.

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LIVE VIDEO: OWS Three-Month Anniversary

Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Off the Bus, Video, Citizen Journalism, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Offthebus, Politics News

Today, Dec. 17, is the three-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in New York. To mark the occasion, the group is holding an all-day performance ev...

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'We Are The Embedded Journalists Of The Occupy Movement'

Laura Paull | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Off the Bus, Citizen Journalism, Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Home Foreclosures, Off the Bus2012, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Tawakkol Karman, offthebus2012, Offthebus, Politics News

I have been searching for a way to shed some light on why some Americans I have recently come to know are likewise finding their way to journalism as an act of conscience. These are people who have come to The Huffington Post as voluntary citizen journalists, to help illuminate what is going on in America today. Given the economic maesltrom we may or may not survive, growing public unrest and the deeply worrisome erosion of our basic civil rights, you could say that, like Tawakkol Karman, they are committing acts of civic journalism by documenting these events.

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Technology Companies: The New Human Rights Players

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Social Media, Witness, Human Rights, Twitter, Youtube, Citizen Journalism, Razan Ghazzawi, Facebook, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Scaf, Egypt, Citizen Activists, Syria, Impact News

When technology companies work together with NGOs to incorporate the best interests of their users into policies, we can keep the platforms and tools essential to the millions of citizen activists from serving the wrong side of justice.

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Restoring Fact-checking

Craig Newmark | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Widgets, Future of Journalism, Factchecking, Trust, Social Networks, Citizen Journalism, Technology, News, Journalism, Factcheck.org, Media News

Recently, Jeff Jarvis held an event on restoring fact-checking to the news business. Here's my very brief attempt at getting my head around what happened and what's happening with big deal fact-checking.

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Occupy Wall Street Photos

The Huffington Post | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Off the Bus, Video, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Citizen Journalism, offthebus2012, Offthebus, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Citizen journalists are increasingly telling the ground-level stories and capturing the best moments of the Occupy WallStreet events happening across ...

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OfftheBus Citizen Journalism (LATEST UPDATES)

The Huffington Post | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Off the Bus, Video, Citizen Journalism, Offthebus, Politics News

Throughout the 2012 election cycle, The Huffington Post will be enlisting the help of readers who want to be more involved in how these elections are ...

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Citizen Journalism Is Booming In Egypt, Despite Serious Risks

Mandy Jenkins | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Egypt, Offthebus, Middle East, Off the Bus, Citizen Journalism, Egyptian Revolution, Politics News

Citizen journalism is thriving in Egypt and the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring. While the news availability may be spreading, but there are still dire consequences for citizen journalists for writing negative posts about the wrong parties. It's humbling to find how much some are willing to risk.

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What Really Happened Sunday Night in Cairo?

Maurice Chammah | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Egypt, Twitter, Citizen Journalism, Cairo, Coptic Christians, Sectarianism, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Journalism, Maspero, World News

What happened on Sunday in Egypt? Over the coming days, international media will clean up its coverage and separate fact from fiction, while the viewers feel like they're getting the real story.

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Citizen Journalists Document The Story of Occupy Wall Street

The Huffington Post | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Off the Bus, Video, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Citizen Journalism, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Since Occupy Wall Street began four weeks ago in New York City, the group has inspired protests in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago and many plac...

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In The Beginning, There Were Citizen Journalists

Laura Paull | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Offthebus, Journalism, Kimberley Sevcik, offthebus2012, Ann Cotton, Africa, Camfed, Citizen Journalism, Media, Media News

Even though Americans have centuries of experience with independent reporting and self expression, the term "citizen journalism" still raises eyebrows.

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Occupy Wall Street and Citizen Journalism Keeping It Honest

Harmon Leon | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Now Your Cell, Harmon Leon, Occupywallstreet, Video, News, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Citizen Journalism, Occupy Wall Street, New York, Media News

Occupy Wall Street hit the streets of New York this past week to speak out against corporate greed. On Saturday, over 80 activists were arrested as th...

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Inside The Experience Of A Jailed Journalist During Occupy Wall Street

MetroFocus | John Farley | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Nypd, Wall Street, Metrofocus, Citizen Journalism, Occupy Wall Street, John Farley, New York Protests, New York Journalists, New York News

On Sept. 24, while working on a story about citizen journalism for my employer, I found myself arrested, along with many other people. My arrest gave ...

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From Arab Spring to America Today, Social Media Enables Witness-Reporters

Laura Paull | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Social Media, Arab Spring, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, offthebus2012, Offthebus, Media News

As an editor for citizen journalism on The Huffington Post, I have the opportunity to invite people everywhere, of all ages and of every status, to tell the story of America as we attempt to carry on our electoral traditions in an atmosphere of social division and widespread despair.

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Interview With Journalist Jenna M. McKnight, Editor of 9/11 Through Our Eyes

Teddy Wayne | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: September 11, Jenna M. McKnight, Citizen Journalism, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Essays, September 11 Anniversary, September 11th, Decade After 9/11 - Viewpoints, Media News

On September 16, 2001, Jenna M. McKnight, then a newspaper reporter in Indiana, sent a letter to a few dozen friends and family members, asking for their responses to September 11.

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Arab Spring -- and the Long Winter Ahead

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Internet-Revolution, Google, Social Media, Arab Spring, Internet Freedom, Ashoka Changemakers, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of Expression, Citizen Journalism, Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media, Citizen Media, Impact News

While we celebrate the fact that two billion people now have access to the Internet's opportunities for speaking out, five billion others are still waiting for their chance to be heard.

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Anyone Can Cover the Caucuses

Howard Fineman | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Off the Bus, Citizen Journalism, Huffington Post Off the Bus, Citizen Journalists, HuffPost's Off the Bus, Media News

Now that the GOP presidential race is starting in earnest here is some advice for Iowans, and anyone else in other states, who might want to volunteer for do-it-yourself journalism as part of the Huffington Post's Off the Bus 2012 project.

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