Are you a good citizen journalist?

Recently, NDI and the Lebanese NGO ASWAT organized a training in Beirut on "Citizen Journalism, Professionalism and Ethics". At the end of the training, a code of ethics for citizen journalists was established. And here it is (you can also visit this website, to access the code in Arabic and French):

I would like to thank the Global Voices Team and in particular Collins for sharing this with all the other GV authors.

'The 10 tools of online oppressors'

According to Committee to Protect Journalists Special Report:

The world' worst online oppressors are using an array of tactics, some reflecting astonishing levels of sophistication, others reminiscent of old- school techniques. 

And so Danny O'Brian writes of what is happening around the world in countries like China, Iran and Burma and many others where freedom of media and activism are heavily censored and brutally punished.

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