Social media has given citizen journalists more opportunity than ever before to source and distribute their work. Even in countries where as...

​ If livestreaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat are going to  ​change the news industry  in a similar way Twitter did—by allowing whoever...

The number of open-source tools and platforms that have emerged to help contextualise and verify information from social media has been one ...

Ahmed uses a small camera to shoot so he can easily dive in the rapid changes of scenario at the frontline. In this instance, he was being s...

In 2000 I got my first photos published in a magazine. Fourteen years later I won a  Webby Award for my film exposing the treatment of migra...

In danger and "on their own": The perils of freelance war reporting The execution of  freelance journalist James Foley  in Syria l...

The 'World's Finest Citizen Journalist' Is Covering Iraq In Amazing Ways, And Plans To Expand His Website A Kickstarter funded c...

'Bellingcat' Kickstarter Campaign Seeks to Unite Investigative Citizen Journalists Citizen journalism is more prevalent than ever wi...

Citizen Journalists Collaboratively Map Conflict in Ukraine As technology changes, so do our abilities to engage in meaningful ways. In the ...

3 Lessons Citizen Journalists Should Learn from BuzzFeed's Plagiarism Scandal Last Friday, BuzzFeed  fired  "Viral Politics" e...