The rise of Brown Moses: How an unemployed British man became a poster boy for citizen journalism

The rise of Brown Moses: How an unemployed British man became a poster boy for citizen journalism

We've written many times about how social media and what Om likes to call the "democratization of distribution" have changed the way that journalism works in a digital age, and how various media players — from The Guardian to NPR's Andy Carvin — have made the practice of "open journalism" one of their guiding principles. But there is probably no better example of this new form of journalism at work than Brown Moses, an otherwise unremarkable British man who has become the go-to source for information about weapons in Syria.

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/19/the-rise-of-brown-moses-how-an-unemployed-british-man-became-a-poster-boy-for-citizen-journalism/