Citizen journalism News

Anonymous, the hacking collective and anti-censorship body, have launched a new venture: a website for crowdsourced news.

Newsmodo.com, a website that allows people to add their news articles, photographs and video for sale to the media has now gone live. The announcement was made in an email on Friday.

The Guardian newspaper is inviting would-be journalists to contribute to its new citizen journalism site. Citizen journalists will have the opportunity to add photos, stories and videos to the new site, which is called Guardian Witness.

San Francisco - Today I reached a major Digital Journal milestone as I passed the 1 million pageview mark after writing 607 articles for the site in exactly nine months.

She loves hip-hop and basketball. She dreams of being published in Rolling Stone. She writes to distract herself from a chronic health condition. Find out more about Layne Weiss, a Digital Journalist since March 2012.

The findings of a massive five-year citizen science project called the Opal Project have been published. The report contains , more than 25,000 surveys, produced by more than 500,000 people,

Under the banner ‘We fight censorship’ journalists’ campaigning organisation Reporters sans Frontières last week launched a website which will carry content that has been censored, banned or which has given rise to reprisals against its author.

She "woke up" at 58, recognizing how corruption and greed hurt Spain's prosperity. She decided to do something about it as an activist and Digital Journalist. Read more about Anne Sewell's adventurous life and career in this exclusive profile.

Sydney - The near decade or so of angst and wailings which has followed the progressive obliteration of old news media with the new media continues to whimper.

Los Angeles - Today marks the 21st anniversary of the story of Rodney King, a young black man who was so scared of going back to prison, he led police officers on a car chase in Los Angeles. The officers caught up with King, and brutally beat him.