In the New Normal of #CitizenJournalism everyone carrying a smartphone has a 50kW radio station in their pocket to counter-surveil the surveillance state, and broadcast that first-person account.
Vulnerability is the path to #innovation.
If you enjoy my posts here on Mastodon, or find them interesting (or both), then you might also want to check out my longer form 'citizen journalism' @NWBylines
The articles I have written over the last couple of years, often extending themes of my posts, can all be found here:
Astonishing day at the spycops public inquiry where the unit's manager in the 1980s, Tony Waite, has been giving evidence. Contradicting his contemporaries, Waite admits that the unit was misogynist & that many of them knew all about spycop Bob Lambert getting a woman pregnant while undercover.
Report from the end of the day by Tom Fowler & the Undercover Research Group's Donal O'Driscoll:
#Melania the strong and the #brave. Everyone woman that is #prolife and #womensrights deserves some praise.
Agree or disagree?
Billionaire-media complex
https://popular.info/p/the-billionaire-media-complex
* Bezos 2nd-richest person in world
Billionaire-Owned News Not Our Only Option
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/billionaire-owned-news-is-not-our-only-option
5 biggest newspaper chains in U.S. owned by
hedge fund, x2
private equity fund
billionaire family, x2
I tend to talk about #Indymedia in the past tense. Most of the international collaboration tools have been dead for over a decade (lists, chat, wiki, etc), as has Aotearoa Indymedia as a functioning IMC. So I guess that shapes my thinking.
But some of the sites linked from the static site at the old domain name are still in active use;
Not sure to what degree they still work together as a global network of IMCs, if at all.
Learn how to request a dataset of all the databases an agency maintains with @muckrock ’s latest #FOIAFriday webinar:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-Do81pKSmM
Next session on June 14 and you can sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2U6FCIpWRve_Odo_VUXtmw#/registration
#introduction Hi, we are VPROsint! A project initiated by @VPROMedialab on collaborative OSINT research for citizen journalists to empower them with OSINT techniques and media literacy. We aim to build a platform for this in the FLOSS philosophy.
Dive into the decentralized future of investigative journalism and research new stories with us! 
Reply which subjects we should investigate. Which international story is missing the spotlights?
Corporate capture of #media and targeting of #journalists has contributed to the #trust fails of the #FourthEstate. It’s taking people a long time to figure out the landscape has changed. There is no neutral point of view, there are only multiple views and people don’t know how to parse that. What’s the solution? I think it’s #generative trust building. #pointofview #impartiality #citizenjournalism #fifthestate #socialmedia #news #opensource #esport
ICYMI: I wrote a piece for Organise Magazine about the radical media network known as Mutu that has gone from strength to strength, growing beyond France -- and how, here in the UK, we could finally leave behind our "silos" to embrace non-hierarchical, non-commercial, local autonomous media: https://organisemagazine.org.uk/loam-local-autonomous-media-theory-and-analysis/ #CitizenJournalism #media #IndyMedia #RadicalMedia #AlternativeMedia #Anarchism #AntiCapitalism #AntiFascism
@atomicpoet “common folk usually provide firsthand accounts of events as they happen” = citizen journalism
"While mainstream news media may be unpopular for large sections of society, people still want to be informed. For many people, citizen journalists on YouTube are a trusted source."
#youtubers #YouTube #journalism #CitizenJournalism #Ukraine #Russia #WarReporting #RussianInvasion #UkraineWar #NewsMedia #Commodon @commodon
@timbray seriously, this is an interesting phenomenon. and one thing it means, is that you often can follow up with the subject of a piece - they may not be overwhelmed with attention
So when its a subject that should be followed up on, I am hoping more citizen journalists do that and second-interview a bit later
Looking good!
That's everyone from the #BylinesNetwork except East Anglia Bylines and Kent Bylines.
We're building up all of the #Bylines on Mastodon and getting established here. They already have >15K followers between them.
