citizen journalism

The communist regime in Cuba sentenced 22-year-old Mayelín Rodríguez Prado to 15 years in prison this week for filming peaceful protests in the town of Nuevitas in August 2022.

The health of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is “deteriorating” from a prolonged hunger strike she started months ago while in jail to protest a four-year prison term handed to her by Chinese state authorities in December for her reporting on Wuhan’s initial coronavirus outbreak last year.

Chinese police arrested a citizen journalist reporting on the coronavirus from the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak began, last week on charges of public disturbance, her father confirmed on Tuesday.

Journalists seem to think the problem in 2016 was political, not professional — i.e. not that they were so wrong about what was happening, but that the wrong outcome took place despite their strenuous efforts.

Two pro-choice law professors call the prosecution of citizen journalists “a stunning act of legal jujitsu,” and say they are “deeply disturbed” over a Harris County, Texas grand jury’s decision to indict the makers of the videos who exposed Planned Parenthood’s apparent practice of selling the body parts of aborted babies.

On a day of chaos at the University of Missouri—where both the school’s president and chancellor resigned after weeks of campus disruptions by students inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement—was also a day of media censorship.

A prominent blog from Spain about citizen journalism has touted the efforts of Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project as a “successful formula” for demonstrating how the collaboration between professional and citizen journalists can bring down violent drug cartels. Journalist and director of Spain’s Periodismo Ciudadano website Paula Gonzalo writes that Breitbart Texas is acting as a bridge across the border so Mexican citizen journalists can tell these vivid cartel stories.