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Citizen journalists outperformed professional news outlets when it came to getting news out faster and offering better multimedia after a Toronto neighbourhood was rocked by explosions, according to Bill Dunphy, senior city reporter at the Hamilton Spectator.Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet's impact on society. The site aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online -- shining light on places and people other media often ignore. It employs an international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators to help make sense of it all, and to highlight things that bloggers are saying which mainstream media may not be reporting.
Hat tip to Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff.
BTW, is anyone else getting weary of this phrase "citizen journalists?"
London Free Press columnist Paul Berton looks at how the videotape evidence of the tragic death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport in October, 2007 has impacted on the citizen journalism debate.
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