Monday, 10 March 2014

Citizen Journalism Examples

1. Russia's fight on Oscar night
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/06/russias-fight-on-oscar-night/

The purpose of the post was to raise awareness on the fact that the oscars was seen to be as 'politically dangerous entertainment in current conditions' by the Russians, who then chose to censor the part when Jared Leto mentions the problems in the Ukraine in his acceptance speech.

2. Today in Afghanistan
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.co.uk/

This blog is updated everyday with posts on what is going on in Afghanistan and the amount of people that are dying daily. This blog uses images as well as an 'Iraq death estimator' that changes daily.