citizen journalism Archive

Shark fin soup trade

This is truly disgusting. I found this article this morning on Grind.TV and it depicts a trade that is completely out of control and out of touch. The Grind article is about a blog post by Hong Kong photographer Alex Hofford and his feature post A Shark Fin Roof Top in Hong Kong. Hofford

Fighting crime with Facebook

Like many people in Canada and The United States I watched in disappointment last week as the Vancouver Canucks, the NHL’s top ranked team, lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins 4-0 in Vancouver. It was up in the air all series but my money was on the Canucks. Even so Boston played

The revolution will be broadcast on YouTube

The revolution taking place in Syria is much like the revolutions that have taken place throughout the middle east. Recently I joined the Facebook group The Syrian Revolution 2011 thinking it would provide some information on the latest events in Syria and I’m surprised at the level of content. The near 205,00 member page

Kibera News Network

Kibera News Network is a citizen video journalism program started by Map Kibera and the Kibera Community Development Agenda (KCODA) in April 2010, along with two Kibera filmmakers using small handheld video cameras. They cover news and stories happening in Kibera, Kenya, from their perspective (it’s their neighbourhood). KNN has a YouTube Channel and