Journalism Rules Bent in Coverage From Iran

The New York Times take on citizen journalism coming out of Iran:
“Check the source” may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don’t know the answer, ask your readers.
Journalism [...]

Afghanistan: An Accordion Journey

An Accordion Journey is one of those gem videos that are a joy to watch. Written, narrated, and produced by Gregory Warner and filmed by Warner and Habib Samin, the film follows Gregory on his journey to Afghanistan with his accordion as he builds friendships through music.

Link from Newsvideographer.com

Funny Craigslist Ad

The camera obsessed will get it.
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Is traditional media obsolete?

This is an interesting take on citizen journalism and what it means to the main stream (I hate that phrase) media. With events in Iran being broadcast to the world via cellphones and text messaging has the ball been dropped again? The Internet went right by the media, will the importance of social networking do [...]

Fake reporters asking fake questions

TV news shot on Iphone 3GS

Gio Benitez, a producer for CBS4.com, had an interesting assignment last week. He had to buy the new Apple iPhone 3G S and shoot some photos and video for broadcast on the station.
Gio says “The quality of the video and sound was impressive on the phone, but I figured it would be less appealing [...]

Citizentube

Citizentube’s motto is Watching Video Change Our World and it’s a fitting description for a site that has come of age with the amount of citizen content being filtered out of Iran. Citizentube is YouTube’s official Political blog and it’s run by Steve Grove, David McMillan, and Olivia Ma. Can’t say I have much [...]

The Best 40 Features of iPhone 3.0

For those who use it the iPhone can be a great tool for networking and carrying out numerous other tasks. With update 3.0 it promises to be even better. iSmashPhone.com put together a great list of the 3.0’s forty best features.

Videos from Iran

Careful what you ask for

MMA fighter chokes out reporter.