Sentences with phrase «as citizen journalists»

Contaminated water pumped into Lake Conway as citizen journalists report live.

We have supported, financially and technically, over 75 projects that nurture youth as citizen journalists, from the Bronx to Beijing.

I'm looking for advertising people to act as citizen journalists.

And not just the campaigns» use of social media: I'm just as focused on what we did as citizen journalists and advocates.

Not exact matches

But today, every Starbucks customer has become a potential citizen - journalist, and every social media user feels empowered to react as if he or she had witnessed the event first - hand.

The show cast six supporting «citizen journalists» who reflect the broad swath of personalities on the right, with a gun - rights activist in the vein of bombastic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, provocateurs in the vein of Milo Yiannopoulos, what Miller described as a «pseudo-intellectual with no real credentials,» and a stay - at - home livestreamer rambling without much of a point.

The press (including «citizen journalists» and survivor blog writers) have been pulling at the loose threads here and there, and it looks like the entire muffler may unravel as different people and organizations attempt to deny the interconnections, or minimize underlying doctrines that have given shape to their whole gridlock of power.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

As the Macaca moment showed in 2006, unflattering content can spread particularly far and fast when it gets caught in a feedback loop involving citizen journalists, corporate media outlets and the campaigns themselves:

As an example of the kind of direct engagement he's prescribing, Barger said that his staff had stayed on Twitter until midnight on the day that the auto bailout plan hit the press, engaging both journalists and citizens online.

Ezeokafor, who spoke to journalists at the annual meeting with the Religious Council in the diocese at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Awka, said it was normal that people asked questions about the health of their President as he was not a private citizen.

But we've often heard mainstream journalists bemoan the standard of conversation common on blogs, and this incident serves as a perfect example of one reason that citizen journalism matters — the amateurs help keep the professionals honest.

Tom Lundquist, a Halfmoon resident recently named chairman of the town's Republican Committee, sent an email to his fellow committee members Friday warning that town Democrats, and a grassroots citizens group known as «Future Halfmoon,» as well as «certain journalist (s) are going to try and label all of us corrupt.»

Gotham Gazette strives to be as transparent as possible in its reporting and, in the rare occasions when our journalists write about issues that Citizens Union is working on or when we quote Citizens Union staff directly, we make our affiliations known to the extent possible.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

When journalists are dealing with foreign affairs or the military, I think there's a natural tendency for them to feel like they are asking questions not just as journalists but also as citizens, and that affects how they design the questions.

This documentary from Matthew Heineman goes behind enemy lines in Syria to follow the citizen journalist collective «Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently» as they attempt to expose the human rights violations by ISIS and fight the terrorist group's misinformation campaigns in their home country.

Even though The Amina Profile works as a cyber-thriller of sorts, I think it's much more wide - reaching than that, a story about online identity, but also about the danger of media - constructed narratives, one that manages to salute both citizen journalists, but also establishment outlets like NPR.

As we ponder the future of our country, we can take heart from the heroes of the infuriating and inspiring documentary «City of Ghosts,» directed by Matthew Heineman («Cartel Land»)-- and the citizen journalists of the Syrian group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS).

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

As the democratization of technology is allowed, citizen journalists have become a really important source of information.

And yet when journalists use their rights as citizens to speak out for or send contributions to candidates, ethical lines blur between their responsibilities to their professional and their desire to be engaged citizens.

As with his previous, highly topical work, the of - the - moment subject of «Ghosts» is the Islamic State, also known as ISIS — or, rather, a band of citizen journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who have defied death threats and assassinations to get the news out of the Islamic State's capital, via a Web portal called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered SilentlAs with his previous, highly topical work, the of - the - moment subject of «Ghosts» is the Islamic State, also known as ISIS — or, rather, a band of citizen journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who have defied death threats and assassinations to get the news out of the Islamic State's capital, via a Web portal called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silentlas ISIS — or, rather, a band of citizen journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who have defied death threats and assassinations to get the news out of the Islamic State's capital, via a Web portal called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

It's a documentary from director Matthew Heineman that begins as a history of the citizen journalist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) and transforms into something that is more akin to a thriller.

This week, it's «City of Ghosts,» providing an apt bookend chronicling the heroic efforts of citizen journalists in Raqqa, Syria, as they attempt to document the carnage that the Islamic State has wreaked on their once - cosmopolitan city.

This is a superb re-creation of a period when many politicians, journalists, and citizens of differing political affiliations viewed government as a force for public good.

She also discusses the civility, cleanliness of country, and Prince Albert's accessibility as far as journalists and citizens are concerned.

Perhaps I fit the late Andrew Breitbart's definition of «citizen journalist», as I mentioned at the end of my June 2011 Breitbart piece, but as seen there, (full text) what I was actually trying to do was to prompt mainstream journalists to step back from the abyss of only half - reporting the global warming issue and find their character via unabridged reporting on the issue and inquiries into narratives about details within it that don't line up right.

Today, events like the recent tasering and arrest of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer during his attempts to question John Kerry at a campus event are covered from every angle by potential witnesses and citizen journalists, as these YouTube videos show.

Bloggers may be gaining respect as citizen reporters or commentators, but they still don't have all of the legal protections that apply to journalists.

As long as the user — whether a journalist, activist, or average citizen who is concerned about privacy and anonymity — always uses Tor to access both that e-mail address and his Oneway account, it would be virtually impossible to tie that user to those accountAs long as the user — whether a journalist, activist, or average citizen who is concerned about privacy and anonymity — always uses Tor to access both that e-mail address and his Oneway account, it would be virtually impossible to tie that user to those accountas the user — whether a journalist, activist, or average citizen who is concerned about privacy and anonymity — always uses Tor to access both that e-mail address and his Oneway account, it would be virtually impossible to tie that user to those accounts.