02.23.2010 at 5:07 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

A new trend called citizen journalism

Can ordinary people really take part in the media world? In delivering the news? Read more…

02.19.2010 at 5:31 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Storms turn Filipino citizens into reporters

A powerful storm that drowned several cities in the Philippines became one of the most important turning point for the country’s online media. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 3:07 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Whistleblower saves Ghana minors from US paedophile

But for the timely intervention of a citizen journalist, a 65-year-old American paedophile, Patrick Ken Larbash would have been walking freely on the streets of Ghana. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 3:04 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Future of journalism is hyperlocal

Many media experts think hyperlocal journalism is changing the existing media landscape particularly in the West. Many think the future of journalism is hyperlocal. Is this no-cost journalism a threat to the mainstream media?
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02.19.2010 at 2:42 pm | Category Case Studies, Featured // 1 Comment »

New media tool exposes Tanzania Albino killings

More than 50 people with albinism have been murdered in Tanzania since 2007, by people who believe that albinos body parts could make one rich. The media failed to highlight the albino killings – so ordinary people had to do their job. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 2:36 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Media watchdogs monitoring news on the internet

The emergence of blogs on the Internet in the past years has created media watchdogs in the form of blogs that monitor news content of big news organisations, questioning some of the stories that are carried by these news websites. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 1:39 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

BBC opens new front in journalism

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has introduced a new way of newsgathering in a blog where they invite citizens to produce a documentary.

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02.19.2010 at 1:31 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Bangladesh starts online, multimedia journalism practices

Media houses in Bangladesh have huge potentials in using the user-generated contents in their news items as the country has a booming growth of internet and mobile phone uses over the last one decade. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 1:12 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

How Zim citizens became reporters during 2008 presidential elections

IN Zimbabwe, Citizen Journalism played a major role in the delayed release of March 2008 presidential election results. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 1:01 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Crowdsourcing in western world

Crowdsourcing, engaging a large group of people from various places to work on a single or multiple task, is increasing its number of companies and consumers  day by day in western world, while eastern countries are quite oblivious of it.  Read more…

02.19.2010 at 12:35 pm | Category Case Studies // Have your say »

Citizen Journalism on the next level – The Ghana experience

It was not an isolated case but perhaps the only one that was exposed, however, not through the lenses of a journalist. Read more…

02.19.2010 at 11:39 am | Category Case Studies, Featured // 1 Comment »

At a crossroads: Kenyan blogger comes to the rescue

For Ory Okolloh, who came back home to elect her next leader, the events that followed would forever change her life. She had flown into Kenya from her base in South Africa to exercise her constitutional right to vote in the 2007 General Election. Read more…