Entries Categorized as 'citizen journalism'

Scorched Earth Screeds on Citizen vs. Professional Media

Date May 1, 2007

Can’t we all just get along? As two of my favorite foils, Michael Rosenblum and Jeff Jarvis were storming the gates of traditional TV at the NAB conference in Vegas, many of the journalists who actually do the “boots on the ground” work of TV news were in Blacksburg, VA, covering the worst single [...]

The Live Video Revolution

Date April 26, 2007

As the largest collection of live trucks my colleagues and I had ever witnessed beamed images of the horrifying massacre at Virginia Tech, a live TV revolution was quietly happening on the internet.

Prompted by “always on” Justin.tv, suddednly everyone’s video had to be live. Tech evangelist Chris Pirillo was live streaming on Ustream, when [...]

Jamal Albarghouti Spotlights the Role of Citizen Journalists in VA Tech Massacre

Date April 19, 2007

On Monday, April 16th, Jamal Albarghouti made a consciously editorial decision that the chaos happening - right there - all around him on the Virginia Tech campus, was something that he should record on his video enabled camera. To fight the wise instinct to protect ones life - to set that aside and decide [...]

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