Sentences with phrase «citizen journalists from»

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 Silently.

«City of Ghosts» follows a group of citizen journalists from Raqqa, Syria, who eventually flee their homes due to death threats from ISIS.

Matthew Heineman's documentary follows young activists and citizen journalists from the city who formed the «Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently» group (RBSS).

Not exact matches

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

Genius idea from PoliticsTV's Dan Manatt: with Obama's now - infamamous (and citizen - journalist - reported) «bitter» comments in mind, he wrote in techPresident today that ubiquitous digital recording should now require campaign staff to take Extreme Measures:

It is, like the fate of the newspaper in the age of digital, a matter related to my professional life, but it is also very personal in the sense that it has to do with the interesting transition I have made, from being a journalist and a private citizen, to being a government official.

When we closed the document on 9th February, we had more than 100 contributions from journalists, media scholars and concerned citizens around the world.

Genius idea from PoliticsTV's Dan Manatt: with Obama's now - infamamous (and citizen - journalist - reported) «bitter» comments in mind, he wrote in techPresident today that ubiquitous digital recording should now require campaign staff to take Extreme Measures: Combine (1) this...

«Benefits come not only from direct use of the data, but also from the return on investment that comes when private citizens and journalists use data to generate useful apps and to evaluate government performance.

Imagine journalists and citizens meeting with political leaders who seek support for a proposed law to exclude certain groups from due process.

Newspapers are forbidden from publishing anything that could affect a trial once a defendant has been arrested, but in an age of Twitter, social media and citizen journalists, many have argued the law needs to be updated.

The Freedom of Information Law allows everyday citizens, journalists, advocates, and others to seek and obtain information, like documents and communications, from government entities.

PDF brings together a thousand top opinion makers, political practitioners, technologists, and journalists from across the ideological spectrum for two days to network, exchange ideas, and explore how technology and wired citizens are changing politics, governance, and civil society.»

I encourage Rob Astorino and Andrew Cuomo to take a real tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania, from the citizens affected, not the gas industry which won't even allow journalists to see what they're doing.

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.

Whether the technology fuels a citizen - science project or whether the data is available from scientists for use by journalists to plumb for stories, it's a facet of data journalism that is particularly relevant to environmental reporting.

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.

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.

And while the film is sort of about this war of ideas, propaganda, information from these citizen journalists and ISIS» slick propaganda, it's also a story of immigrants, an exodus story, of Man's understanding, coming to terms, and dealing with the cumulative effects of trauma... also, rising nationalism both in Germany and around the world.

Documentarian Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» profiles a group of citizen - journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who are fighting the terrorist group ISIS with pens and cameras,» not guns.

The ISIS - occupied Syrian city of Raqqa may be in the news this week, but for years one of the only sources of information about it came from a group of heroic citizen journalists.

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.

Matthew Heinemann's City of Ghosts takes place in another sieged Syrian city, IS stronghold Raqqa, focusing on the city's citizen journalist network, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group that records and releases in secret from this controlled zone, at considerable risk.

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

It seems to me that any journalist worth her notepad allows no one to dictate to her, but that no citizens of any democracy (or republic) worth the paper its constitution is written on refrain in any topic area from criticizing — not dictating to, but criticizing — journalism.

Big - government fans forcibly take funds from all citizens to support big - government propaganda by journalists who predominantly vote left or very - left (see here or here).

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.

Which means that no subcommittee rule or regulation should prohibit a respectful journalist or citizen from recording a public hearing.

Whether you are a credentialed reporter or a citizen journalist, if you are arrested or run into legal problems while reporting on the presidential inauguration, help is available from two sources: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will run a round - the - clock hotline for reporters who are detained while covering the inauguration.

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.

Whether you are a credentialed reporter or a citizen journalist, if you are arrested or run into legal problems while reporting on the presidential inauguration, help is available from two sources: