RSSCitizen Journalism Project
Citizen Journalism is central to resilience in a society, and it is core to a Resilience Network. Your contributions and insights provide a unique value that is one of the lynch-pins of human-scale democratic self-governance.
The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others.
For example, you might write about a city council meeting on your blog or in an online forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online. Or you might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as YouTube.
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