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I know you have heard this before and it won’t be the last time either but it always comes down to this. I know, because I have had this happen to me. I stepped forward to share my story with a news or media outlet… and it turned out exactly opposite of how I intended.{{{gold}}} [...]

When the people formally known as the audience employ the press tools in their possession to inform one another! – Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at NYU GOT IT!

President Barack Obama told CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux that he found the video of a murdered Iranian woman to be “heartbreaking and that to see something like this happen is “fundamentally unjust”. {{{gold}}} A video showing the death of Neda Agha-Soltan has been widely circulated on the internet after Iran’s crackdown on protesters. This video is [...]

Also known as THE GREAT EQUALIZER the internet is allowing us not only to communicate as never before it is suddenly giving millions upon millions of people a voice in creating and building the foundations for a TRUE Media Democracy.

Yelp sits in the drivers seat to unleash one of the world’s most interesting and best citizen journalism prototypes. With thousand of citizen journalist style real reviews posted daily, and an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of testimonials, Yelp is essentially nothing more than a citizen journalism mecca. Review site sure, but beyond this it [...]