citizen journalism

Twitter reinstates accounts sharing open source info on Russian military threat

Twitter disclosed that it mistakenly removed a number of accounts sharing details about Russian military activity Wednesday, as the nation’s aggressive posture toward neighboring Ukraine threate

Bellingcat journalists targeted by failed phishing attempt

Investigative news site Bellingcat has confirmed several of its staff were targeted by an attempted phishing attack on their ProtonMail accounts, which the journalists and the email provider say faile

Wickr Foundation invests in Whistler, an app dedicated to helping activists and citizen reporters

Earlier today at the Oslo Freedom Forum, the Wickr Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to private communication and uncensored information, announced its first investment in a new secure co

Fresco News teams with FOX to bring citizen journalism to local newsrooms around the U.S.

Crowdsourced journalism startup Fresco News has just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary citizens to several local Fox newsrooms around the U.S. Us

AP Takes A Stake In Bambuser, The Real-Time Mobile Video Service That Helps Eyewitnesses Tell Their Stories

<a target="_blank" href="http://bambuser.com">Bambuser</a>, the upstart mobile video service that has carved out a name for itself as a crucial tool for eyewitnesses to record and transmit footage of

Pew: YouTube Represents New Kind Of “Visual Journalism”

Consumers may think of YouTube as the go-to place for watching <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzjgBAaWZw">funny cats</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/28/youtube-n

NewsiT Raises $500K To Gamify Crowd Journalism

Crowdsourced news platform <a href="http://www.newsit.net">NewsiT.net</a> just announced that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. And, timed to match the beginning of South by Southwest, it's also

Reuters' N95-equipped toolkit for on-the-go reporters

As a well-respected, professional, hard-hitting technology journalist, I can appreciate what this kit has to — buwahahahaaaa!! I’m sorry, I couldn’t get though it all. Well-respected