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Citizen Journalists

Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: My Lai, Evelyn Theiss, Citizen Journalism, War Wire, War, Ron Haeberle, Civilian Casualties, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seymour Hersh, Veterans, War Crimes, Soldiers, Army, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Ohio, Ronald Haeberle, Media News, U.S. Army, William Calley, Citizen Journalists, Media News
David Quigg

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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Hanging Citizen Journalists Out to Dry: Shield-Law Amendment Excludes Unpaid Bloggers

Pam Spaulding | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Lgbt, Citizen Journalists, Shield Laws, Media News
Pam Spaulding

The real issue with the language of the proposed New York shield law is less the law per se than placing a definition of a journalist on the books.

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Losing the News: A Great Book

Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Blogs, Politics, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Democracy, Media, News, Blogging, Journalism, Citizen Journalists, Broadcast TV, Alex Jones, Business News
Diane Francis

Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.

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Stop "Crimes Against Humanity and Geological Scandals": Give AFRICOM a Chance In Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Women, Africom, Rape, Andrea Mitchell, Goma, War, Foreign Service, Global Research, Internally Displaced Persons, Georgianne Nienaber, Media, Ngo, Media Distortions, Msnbc, Chidren, Mugunga I, Think Tanks, Embedded Journalists, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, Hillary Clinton, Office of Inspector General, State Department, Usaid, Citizen Journalists, Af, Oig, Obama, Community Organizing, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

This is going out to the end of a very long limb, but contrary to the rumblings in progressive think tanks, let's suggest that AFRICOM must be given a chance in eastern Congo.

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Letter From Paris: Calling A Dick A Dick

Beth Arnold | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Lies, Expatriates, David Gregory, Dick Cheney Torture, Expats, Republicans, Media, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Citizen Journalists, Dick Cheney, Torture, World News
Beth Arnold

With yet another round of Dick Cheney disinformation saturating the airwaves, it boggles the mind how the Bush administration controlled the American conversation in the media for so many years.

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Every Tea Party Had Its Own Brew, Reports HuffPosers

HuffPost Citizen Journalists | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Tax Tea Party, Tea Parties, Tea Party, Citizen Journalists, Ee, Politics News

Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos...

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Teabaggers Stray Off Topic, HuffPosters Report

HuffPost Citizen Journalists | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Anti-Tax Tea Party, Teabaggers, Tea Party Signs, Tea Party Attendance, Tea Parties 2009, Eyea and Ears, Tea Parties, Tea Party, Ee, Citizen Journalists, Politics News

Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos...

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TELL US: Are You Or A Loved One Facing Home Foreclosure?

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure, House Foreclosure, You Report, Offthebus, Home Foreclosures, Citizen Journalists, Politics News

America's housing crisis has rocked the economy and continues to worsen, with tens of thousands of people facing foreclosure each week. The dialogue i...

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Do User-Generated Review Sites Sites do More Harm Than Good?

Pauline Millard | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Review Sites, Housing, User-Generated Content, Yelp, Free Speech, Apartments, First Amendment, Real Estate, New York City, Landlords, Rentals, Citizen Journalism, New York City Apartments, Technology, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Pauline Millard

I would worry about what these sites said about me and how they were monitored. Users post anonymously, and there are no checks and balances to investigate if any of the claims are valid.

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A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Newspapers, Bloggers, Amazon Kindle, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Amazon, Old Media, Television, Kindle, Old Media Death Watch, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Technology, World Wide Web, Myspace, Blogging, Amazon.com Kindle, Magazines, Citizen Journalists, Steve Jobs, Napster, Paypal, Old Media vs. New Media, Jeff Bezos, Citizen Journalism, Aspen Institute, Websites, Death of Newspapers, Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Itunes, New York Times, Videos, Media News
Walter Isaacson

I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.

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How the Huffington Post Helped Save a Life

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Journalists, Newspapers, Turkey, Sabri Bogday, Citizen Journalism, Bloggers, Prisoners, Computers, Web, Websites, United States, Journalism, Internet, Istanbul Turkey, Istanbul, Religion, Saudi Arabia, New Media, Los Angeles Times, Turkish Coalition of America, Huffington Post, Blogging, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Matthew and Peter Slutsky

In March 2008, I asked readers of HuffPost to reach out to reporters and bloggers to help tell the story of Turk Sabri Bogday, who at the time faced unjust execution in Saudi Arabia.

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Why Old Media Can't Deny New Media

Ari Herzog | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Janis Krums, Television, Newspapers, Twitter, Online Media, US Airways Crash, New Media, Aviation, Media News, Journalism, The Internet, Us Airways Hudson River, US Airways Plane Crashes, US Airways Crash Photos, Plane Crash Hudson River, Hudson River, Plane Crash in Hudson River, Old Media, Iphone, Internet, New Jersey, Old Media Death Watch, Hudson River Plane Crash, Technology, Hudson River Crash, Citizen Journalists, Old Media vs. New Media, US Airways, Citizen Journalism, Tweets, Plane in Hudson River, Portland Oregon, Media News
Ari Herzog

Twitter is a subset of new media. Your evening news and morning papers aren't quite there, lacking internet technologies, commenting, and synchronous interactivity.

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Tower of Babel?

Caryl Rivers | Posted 02.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Newspapers, Boston Globe, Citizen Journalism, Newspaper, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Journalism, Newspaper Industry, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Caryl Rivers

We need a press powerful enough to rival other power centers, like government and the corporate state. And we desperately need a new economic structure to save newspapers.

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Bail Out Investigative Journalists

Rob Kall | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Auto Bailout, Blogosphere, Newspapers, Internet News, Government Bailout, Bailout, Media News, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Rob Kall

Investigative journalism is at risk. And investigative reporting is not something that can be outsourced or depend upon other countries' workers to do properly.

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Journal Your Campaign Volunteer Experiences for HuffPost's OffTheBus

Amanda Michel | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

Read More: McCain Volunteers, Citizen Reporters, Citizen Journalists, Ground Game, McCain Citizen Reporters, Election 2008, Obama Volunteers, Obama Phonebanks, McCain Phonebanks, Obama Citizen Reporters, Home News
Amanda Michel

At HuffPost's OffTheBus, our specialty is covering the presidential campaign in new and exciting ways by having people on the ground write about their...

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Become A Citizen Reporter on the Obama Campaign

Amanda Michel | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Platform Meetings, Citizen Journalists Obama, Obama Campaign Reporting, Citizen Journalists, Democratic Party Platform, Obama Community Platform Meeting, DNC Platform, Home News
Amanda Michel

The Obama campaign is holding public Democratic Party platform meetings across the country over the next two weeks. Attend your local meeting and send us a report on the effectiveness of the campaign.

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MSNBC, MySpace Team Up To Recruit Citizen Journalists

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK -- Citizen journalists, MySpace and NBC News want you to help cover this summer's political conventions. MySpace, NBC News and MSNBC.com are...

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Obama In Indiana: Dispatches From GroundReport.com

Rachel Sterne | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama, Wright, Campaign, 2008, Groundreport, Obama Policy Differences, Clinton Policy, Obama Policy, Indianapolis Star, Senator Hillary Clinton, Ground Report, Reverend Wright Republican, Indianapolis, Barack Obama, Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, Policy Differences, Citizen Journalists, Reverend Wright, Rev Wright Right, Reverand Wright Conservative, groundreport.com, Hillary Clinton, Home News
Rachel Sterne

At an Indianapolis press conference, Obama struggled to draw a clear distinction for voters between his policies and those of Hillary Clinton. "It's tough," he said, "a lot of our differences get blurred."

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On citizen journalists and the validity of accounts

Christine Escobar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

Read More: San Francisco Fundraiser Remarks, Mayhill Fowler, The Huffington Post, Citizen Journalists, Off the Bus, SF Remarks, Free Press, Momocrats, Barack Obama, Campaign 2008, Modern English, Home News
Christine Escobar

The value in the citizen journalist's account comes partly as a result of its being free. They are beholden to no one. They cover and opine and observe subjects but from their own perspective.

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