When Sharing Your Story Interferes With Telling Others’ Kate Woodsome | Washington DC [Ed. note: Kate Woodsome is a VOA multi-media journalist covering U.S. immigration and rights movements from Washington. You can connect with her here on Twitter.] While the U.S. Supreme Court debated whether or not to support same sex marriage, Facebook turned red. […]
Who Owns The News?
Journalism’s Digital Disruptions Doug Bernard | Washington DC It went bad at the very end, and started with the #7 car. On the last lap of last Saturday’s NASCAR qualifying heat in Daytona Beach, Florida, the race cars were bunched so tightly together they appeared to be touching. Regan Smith in the #7 “Clean Coal […]
Hacking the CIA
And Better Blogging Through Stripping Periodically we like to share a few of the stories and posts from across the web that caught our eye. There are no editorial threads implied connecting these items together, other than being interesting. #1: The Fight Over Airwaves. Several facts of war are as old as battle itself. They […]
Alive In Benghazi
Libyans Sharing Stories From The Front Lines The video is as direct as its story is powerful. A young Libyan, Ali Salem Ali Milad Shaoud, looks directly into the camera – and, by extension, into the eyes of everyone watching him online. He’s wearing a kafiya, a black t-shirt, a green flak vest…and a bandage […]