The finely balanced mid-terms have encouraged a wave of citizen journalism projects that are nicely summarized in a newassignment.net posting (full disclosure: Reuters is a newassignment sponsor).
Among the more eye-catching are: Video the Vote, a project to record evidence of problems outside polling stations, Congresspedia providing user-generated profiles of the challengers most likely to make it, and the Polling Place Photo Project capturing images of election day.
And as mainstream media continues to delve deeper into citizen journalism, CNN’s i-reports and the BBC among others are looking to enrich their traditional coverage with voters’ stories and images.
Dean Wright is the managing editor for consumer services at Reuters.
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In 1979 two Irannian college students told me they were rebelling against the Shah of Iran because his government was a product of the USA. Since the Republican leaders descend on the government of Iraq at will witout formal invitation and seem to be guiding it; it gives the impression that it is not an independent body. From my limited reading I believe that the Muslim men have ruled the women since 700 AD and that the Muslim religious leaders have ruled the government and the education in that same time period. Why does the US believe that they can become a democracy?
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