Sentences with phrase «on citizen journalists»

We're relying more and more on citizen journalists to shine light on these remote corners of the world.

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.

During the 2008 campaign, one of our citizen journalists, Mayhill Fowler, reported on Barack Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Besides a world of citizen journalists at places like techPresident and on our own sites, try reading Amy Schatz at the Murdoch Street Journal, Danny Glover and the gang at National Journal's Technology Daily, Steve Johnson at the Chicago Tribune, Frank Davies at the San Jose Mercury News and of course Jose Antonio Vargas at the Post.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Ortom, who addressed journalists after visiting some of the victims receiving treatment at the BSUTH, Makurdi, called on the Federal Government to provide protection for the people of Benue to show that they were also Nigerian citizens.

At the same time, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation is seeking fines and jail time for grandmother, local resident, citizen journalist and anti-fracking tour guide Vera Scroggins for leading me and my campaign team on a fracking tour.

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.

During his visit, we went to the premiere of the movie and spoke to some of Mexico's key journalists about the film's local impact and how its altered their perspective on the complexity of citizen's taking matters into their own hands.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I know that many citizens, including journalists, do not understand why teachers are so opposed to being evaluated on the basis of a single test, so I'll try to give an example of what can, and does, happen:

It launched on iOS two months ago and has been a hit with celebrities and citizen journalists alike.

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.

The most popular citizen journalists» reports on merinews chosen automatically on the basis of views and comments

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.

The Huffington Post is looking for citizen journalists to attend the fake grassroots events taking place across the country that are designed to fool the American public into thinking that there are organic rallies going on against clean energy and

Bloggers are the citizen journalists of law, reporting and commenting on news across jurisdictions and practice areas.

On Twitter this weekend, reporters and editors like CNN's Senior Editor for Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr (@octavianasrCNN) retweeted stories, photos, video and commentary about Iran by thought leaders, journalists and citizens around the globe.

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.

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 Coalition's Legal Hotline service provides free one - on - one legal consultations to journalists, bloggers, ethnic media, community activists and ordinary citizens experiencing frustration and government resistance in the exercise of their free speech and open - government rights.

My organization, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, provides research and recommendations on various legal and policy issues, and we decided a blog that exclusively covered the Washington Supreme Court could serve citizens, voters, journalists, and practitioners.

This publicly accessible database — already containing hundreds of entries — will provide lawyers, citizen journalists, and mainstream media alike with a valuable resource for assessing the validity and possible outcomes of legal threats to online speech, based on actual cases and legal actions.

Those who are eligible to apply for the special license include: US citizens who are visiting close relatives in Cuba, journalists or members of broadcasting crews who are participating in journalistic activities in the country, government travelers who are on official business, official business travelers, full - time professionals who have work - related duties to perform in Cuba, and students who are pursuing a course in a Cuban academic institution.

On how to change the world: Cook also referred to citizen journalists who use their smartphones to capture and report police brutality.