Ceasefire Liberia

To Publish or Not to Publish

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monrovia, Mogadishu, Black Hawk Down, Ceasefire Liberia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Haiti, Susan Sontag, Earthquake, Mob Justice, Sirleaf, Somalia, Liberia, Justice, Vigilante Justice, Citizen Media, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

Americans rarely see photos of the dead, especially their own, in mainstream media outlets. The U.S. media has been trained to tiptoe around publishing images of American corpses, not wanting to outrage the families of dead soldiers and citizens.

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Citizen Media: Drown Out the Noise

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saki G, Kate Thomas, Guinea, Myles Estey, Global Voices, Democracy, Liberia, David Sasaki, Hyperlocal, Shane Smith, Journalism, Participatory Journalism, Chimamanda Adichie, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Ceasefire Liberia, Shelby Grossman, Ethan Zuckerman, Glenna Gordon, Vice, Citizen Media, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

What makes (the best of) today's journalism different is that citizen journalists the world over have the opportunity to share their hyperlocal, interactive, personal portrayals of their communities.

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