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Director Matthew Heineman followed up his Oscar - nominated Cartel Land with City of Ghosts, his paean to citizen journalists in Raqqa, Syria who struggled to inform the world about ISIS atrocities in their city.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, many of the world's richest citizens are stuffing cash in offshore havens to avoid paying tax.

Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen - journalist campaign focusing on regulatory capture, hedge fund mischief, settlement system failures, systemic risk, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign governments.

I don't expect most citizens, or even most editors or journalists, to be experts in police tactics.

CNN's iReport asked its community of citizen - journalists to offer their opinion on the ban and the larger role of Islam in modern society.

You get to see «regular citizens,» plus a smattering of the national elite journalists who swoop down to cover the locals, usually stopping in for an obligatory chowder or pie at some diner.

After World War II, an American journalist returned to Germany to live in a remote town in hopes of discovering why law - abiding citizens followed the leadership of Adolf Hitler.

Our citizen journalist hero indicated on Twitter the woman's voice in the background stating «Anyone else would get a drop out of there any day of the week» is Reed's wife, Justine.

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:

Audio, too — remember that Obama's «clinging to guns or religion» remark blew up in 2008 after it was released by a citizen journalist (and Obama supporter) who recorded it at a fundraiser.

But since he could publish his own recording of the call online, journalists, other bloggers and citizens in general can listen for themselves and get a real sense of what the governor believes in private.

The world has clearly moved on a long way since 2002 — the phenomenon of the blogosphere erupted after 9/11 resulting in today's vast array of citizen journalists.

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.

What they do is out in the open and possibly recorded by accidental citizen journalists, like myself.

And the narrative not only resonated with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.

When journalists at the Southern Weekly newspaper in China's Guangdong province went on strike last week against a local censor, Chinese citizens and the international media alike sat up and took notice.

After Corbyn's spokesman suggested airstrikes made terror attacks in Britain more likely, a spokesman for shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said: «Daesh have already killed British citizens in Tunisia, blown up Lebanese citizens and anti-war campaigners in Turkey, and murdered journalists.

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.

There is, however, a strong coalition of citizen journalists working diligently in Cameroon and the Diaspora to provide insightful and critical commentary on recent events in the country.

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...

The state Chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, told journalists at a press briefing on Thursday in Benin that the budget did not address the challenges and hardship facing the state and its citizens.

In addition to tightening the distinction between fact and opinion, the time is long overdue for lawmakers to undo the absurdity they have created — and the real damage caused to all citizens» prerogatives of democratic participation — when they equate a journalist's controversial allegations about a George Galloway with Joe's controversial allegations about Dr Bright.

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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.

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.

In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, and signed by the party's Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, the party said it «has learned with utter shock, disbelief and dismay, the jailing of a journalist and two Ghanaian citizens by the Supreme Court of Ghana after contempt proceedings.

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.

Speaking at the programme for journalists on taxation in Prampram, the Bekwai MP entreated citizens to pay taxes regularly.

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.

AAAS counts more than 143,000 individual scientists, engineers, science educators, policy makers, journalists, and interested citizens among its members, making it the largest general scientific organization in the world.

The nascent field of sensor journalism helps citizen scientists and journalists fill in the data gaps in environmental monitoring networks

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.

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.

City of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman, director) Follows a number of citizen journalists who exhibit unbelievable courage in transmitting accounts of life in Raqqa, a Syrian city under ISIS domination.

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.

In Raqqa, Syria, a campaign launched by citizen journalists is exposing the atrocities committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al - Assad and the extremist group ISIS.

After Raqqa, Syria, was overtaken by ISIS in 2014, a group of anonymous citizen journalists formed a collective to report the truth of the Syrian conflict to the outside world.

History is made behind the camera in this detached documentary about the world's first citizen journalists.

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.

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.

Oscar - nominated director Matthew Heineman («Cartel Land») tells the story of Syrian citizen journalists taking on ISIS in their hometown.

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.

Gradually, those images are replaced by real (and really brutal) images of jihadists cutting off hands, whipping dissenters, and executing prisoners in the streets, captured on grainy cellphone videos by citizen journalists.

In celebration of World Press Freedom Day, we've compiled our top five lesson plans on the importance of a free media, and how journalists and citizens stand up for it around the world.

What once were «citizen journalists» in newsrooms are self - publishing authors in bookstores.

It includes Interactive Project - Based Activities that guide students (in Grades 7 - 12) to be citizen journalists; create podcasts, social media campaigns, and more.

What SEEMs like a war, an attack, even to very smart, well - meaning people in such industries, then, is actually something quite different — it's a giving - away of the industry's key capabilities, which may never have looked like weapons to anyone until they suddenly were in the «wrong» hands — the writers» or musicians» or citizen journalists» hands.