Marissa Mayer Gives Senate Testimony on How Google Helps Journalism
Region: District of Columbia
In a post titled Senate Testimony on Future of Journalism, Google's Senior Policy Counsel Pablo Chavez states: Later today Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Product and User Experience, will take to Capitol Hill to tes... more
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GroundReport's Field Guide to NYC Entrepreneurship
Region: New York
Want to get started as an entrepreneur in New York City? GroundReport CEO Rachel Sterne asked the NYC Twitter community for their thoughts on why New York is the ultimate startup city. The tweets helped struct... more
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Beatblogging, Mashable and BootUpNYC on GroundReport
Region: New YorkOur hyperlocal citizen media platform has seen a flurry of coverage in recent days. Here's the latest: In BeatBlogging piece GroundReport is hyperlocal gone global — but will it work?, Lily Q digs deep for a well-re... more
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Palestinian Journalist Laila 'Gazamom' el-Haddad Twitters her Cairo Arrest
Region: Egypt
Palestinian journalist and media activist Laila el-Haddad was detained sixteen hours ago at Cairo International Airport en route to her native Gaza. Mrs. Haddad is traveling with her two young children and currently still ... more
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GroundReport Named 'Most Promising Social Enterprise' in BusinessWeek
Region: United States
GroundReport in BusinessWeek! Thanks to your hard work and bravery, I'm thrilled to announce that GroundReport is featured in BusinessWeek as one of America's most promising social enterprises. You can read ... more
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Twitter Reacts to Iowa Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage in Varnum V. Brien
Region: United States
As the Iowa Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage in the highly-politicized Varnum v. Brien case brought by Lambda Legal, the Twittersphere erupted in reaction. Using the Twitter hashtag #iagaymarriage to c... more
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Protesters and Citizen Reporters Twitter From G-20 Frontlines
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
It may be one of the most prolifically documented protests, at least in real time. Today's G-20 protests in London reached far beyond the UK, as thousands of protesters, citizens and observers provided breaking updates an... more
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My Pitch to '48 Hours In Denmark'
Region: New York
Danish consultancy Seismonaut put out the call for 48hoursindemark last week: a vacation giveaway that awards one digitally-savvy traveller with a trip to Denmark. Lyssky posted about it here on GroundReport. In the spiri... more
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Why is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' on Google Today?
Region: United States
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Graces Google on the 40th Anniversary of the Eric Carle classic. Searching for something online today? If you turn to Google, you're likely to run into a familiar face. Forty years after The ... more
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Chateau Marmont Unearths Forgotten Stephen Sprouse Sketches
Region: United States
Employees of the legendary Chateau Marmont boutique hotel in Los Angeles came across a trove of fashion world treasure last week when they unearthed a box of original sketches by the influential Stephen Sprouse, who died i... more
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Rachel Sterne is CEO of GroundReport.com, a global citizen news platform that empowers anyone to publish and earn money from original, intelligent reporting. She founded the platform in 2006 with the mission to democratize the media and help the world share its stories.
Prior to founding GroundReport, Rachel worked in Business Development at peer-to-peer platform LimeWire and as a Political Reporter on the Security Council for the US Mission to the United Nations. Her experience observing political inertia at the UN during the Darfur crisis inspired her to launch GroundReport, a tool that empowers people to share on-the-ground reports and opinion, and discover what's really going on in the world.
Rachel has discussed GroundReport and citizen journalism for BusinessWeek, CNNMoney, NBC Universal, FOX News, The Aspen Institute, and dozens of other organizations. Rachel has acted as a consultant on digital media for startups, corporations and government agencies, applying GroundReport's expertise in social media, user-generated content and trust systems. She is a co-founder of the Citizen Journalism Think Tank.
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