Posts tagged with 'citizen_journalists'

GOP tossing out journalists?

POSTED BY MALCOLM RAY, MAY 02 2008 11:07 AM | PERMALINK

Minnesota's Republican Party seems very camera-shy. Over the past several months Republicans have prevented journalists from recording their candidates at events. The latest incident was rather dramatic as Gavin Sullivan was tossed out of the Republican convention for district 42B for shooting video.

The Uptake shows us Gavin Sullivan's video and talks to another journalist who has been tossed out twice from Republican events. Here's Gavin Sullivan, a citizen journalist, trying to cover the Minnesota...
YouTube vs. Myanmar

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, OCTOBER 09 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

You Tube have done a great job of supporting citizen journalism by highlighting footage of the protests in Myanmar that has been posted on the site. User "Juvenile Birds" listed as 17 year old Myanmar citizen has been doing a particularly good job, and has a good collection of his/her work- the clips are fuzzy but at a time when information is limited Steve Grove and the folks at YouTube deserve a lot of credit for drawing attention to the work of people getting infomation out, and underlining the...