Posts Tagged “witness”
world is watching
February 26, 2012
Inspired (again) by Nicholas Kristoff article = this one about Ryan Boyette and his citizen journalism project earsandeysnuba.org. It hasn’t launched yet but looking around led me to other witness projects. Satellite Sentinel Project: George Clooney initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project (…)
Marie Colvin – Remi Ochlik
February 24, 2012
Looking at the coverage of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik’s deaths in Syria. Marie Colvin: War Reports, The Sunday Times American Reporter Marie Colvin’s Final Dispatches From Homs [Lede Blog] Ghastly Images Flow from Shattered Syrian City [NY Times] (…)
Tyeler Hicks Famine photo
August 7, 2011
Photo Makes Somalia’s Famine Front Page News : The Picture Show : NPR On Aug. 2, when most U.S. papers ran a front page photograph of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ return to the House, The New York Times went with Hicks’ (…)
Face That Screamed War’s Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later via Iraqi Child in Acclaimed War Photo Tries to Move On – NYTimes.com. I am surprised that this photograph was shielded from her for 6 years. The story is (…)
#feb17voices Libya
February 27, 2011
Feb 17 voices reaching into Libya, tweeting and relaying Libyan voices in real time. via Audioboo / Feb 17 voices feb17voices. More info: On The Media, 2.27.2011 Getting stories out. Report from Libya on Democracy Now
#Bahrain + from one of my heroes Nicholas Kristof
February 20, 2011
As this pic shows, women central to #Bahrain protests from be… on Twitpic. twitpic.com/photos/NickKristof twitter.com/NickKristof
Revolution blogged & collaged
February 12, 2011
Al Jeerza Live Footage from Feb. 11 announcement of Mubarak’s resignation more video and photos on AJE live blog for Feb. 11, 2011 Anger in Egypt – Al Jazeera English. During the reporting and analyzing, there is always time to (…)
Watching Thugs With Razors and Clubs at Tahrir Sq. – NYTimes.com
February 3, 2011
from Nicholas Kristof in Cairo Watching Thugs With Razors and Clubs at Tahrir Sq. – NYTimes.com. Pro-government thugs at Tahrir Square used clubs, machetes, swords and straight razors on Wednesday to try to crush Egypt’s democracy movement, but, for me, (…)
EGYPT – conflict, anger, unrest, protest, on the Edge
January 30, 2011
Can’t stop watching/listening to Al Jazeera Live Stream from Egypt. The revolution will not be televised, but it is being streamed and tweeted at least to those of us outside Egypt. I read the paper for perspective and putting everything (…)
Blogging Conflict on the Street
January 7, 2011
photo above from September 22, 2010, 6:11 PM- a twit pic from the blogger/activist Joseph Dana. Found it as I was reading the Lede blog this morning and following links from more current stories [link] His site led me to (…)
