22-year-old Janaki Purushe graced CNN.com’s front page today, lending the news site a rare hipster patina with her dayglo pink piped shorts, keylime flats and violet hoodie. But the real style icon was in the background: her bike. Janaki Purushe is an iReporter– a citizen journalist for CNN’s participatory platform iReport. iReporters are like GroundReporters, […]
Hillary Clinton Live Video from South Dakota
Senator Hillary Clinton speaks with the Editorial Staff of South Dakota’s Argus Leader today at 1:30 pm Eastern Time. The newspaper will be streaming live using Mogulus, in another "Newspaper Killed the Video Star" moment. Local newspapers are increasingly using free live broadcast tools to usurp local television’s audience. As Clinton’s chances for securing the […]
Spitzer’s Economic Development Czar Steps Down
Avi Schick, the appointee of former New York governor Spitzer as president of the New York State Empire State Development Corporation, has stepped down. (New York Times, May 20, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/nyregion/20schick.html?ex=1211947200&en=964dc40db1d117db&ei=5070. Like the federal Housing and Urban Development secretary, his departure should be followed by his agency’s extinction. Both are illegitimate in my opinion as a Libertarian. (US Housing Agency […]
How GroundReport Networked Journalism
This article was originally published on Brainsbook.com. GroundReport.com is a global news website that democratizes the media by helping everyone tell their story. I started it after witnessing diplomatic apathy in the face of the Darfur crisis as a reporter on the Security Council for the US Mission to the United Nations. GroundReport informs and […]
Exclusive Myanmar Cyclone Destruction Pictures
GroundReport.com has obtained exclusive, original photos from the ground in Myanmar, capturing the destruction of Cyclone Nargis. Myanmar’s junta government is refusing foreign aid workers. Already there are reports of another storm approaching Myanmar. See GroundReport’s entire Myanmar gallery on Flickr.
Suicide attack after peace agreement
Peshawar: At least four police men were wounded when a suicide bomber hit a police station at Mingora, Swat, on Friday evening hours after the Taliban militants signed a temporary peace agreement with the provincial government. Local sources told media persons that a white corolla was heading towards the police station when the police men […]