You must transform yourself from a passive consumer of the wealthy’s mass media message to a creator of authentic content. You must use all of your resources to create content that undermines that very existence of the capitalist class. Ask a homeless man how he feels about capitalism, instead of a spoiled CEO. Interview a struggling mother instead of interviewing capitalism’s media faces.…

Undoubtedly 2011 has been an especially eventful year for news. We have seen the deaths of Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi and Kim Jong-il, earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, the Arab Spring, and riots in the UK as well as Occupy movements propping up all over the world.

What has really stuck out this year has been the prominence and growth of citizen journalism. Social media and its use…

The problem in the world of the media is that only a handful of corporations own virtually all of it. All run to make huge profits and have been cutting staff and quality for years. Time to reclaim the media and build new economic models.

Donnacha DeLong, NUJ President, discusses how we might do it.

NB I know it's not free and costs a lot of money - but just adding here so people know about it...

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Author of “Chavs” and political activist Owen Jones believes the British public does not get the press it deserves because newpaper owners and their journalists are an elite and have no real connection with their readership.

Witness have released an extremely interesting report entitled "Cameras Everywhere"; current challenges and opportunities at the intersection of human rights, video and technology.

The report looks at a range of emerging issues for activists, technologists and anyone who might at one point participate in a social movement. The new ubiquity of the camera has changed the landscape of power dramat…

Doors open 6.00

6.15 introduction

Screening starts 6.30

Panel Discussion 7.30 – 9.00 -speakers to be announced-

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The first time I ever heard the words “mirror website,” I was sitting at a debris-strewn desk, hunched over a desktop computer, on the second floor of a nondescript office building on East 29th in Manhattan. I’d recently started volunteering with the New York City Independent M…

Nick Griffin was forced to retreat from the Frontline Club after he arrived to take part in a Q&A panel session on the documentary film 'The Battle for Barking'. The UAF forced him and his security unit to retreat. London, UK. 13/01/2011

Ten Days of Intensive Training in Central Mexico: Video Production, Investigative & Online Reporting, and Movement Strategies for Journalists

I’ve just posted my pictures from last Wednesday’s higher education march on My London Diary. The pictures I took tell a very different story from that which filled the news broadcasts and papers on Wednesday evening and throughout the next day or two. But of course most of those who pontificate about it weren’t there, and even those of us who were could only get a partial view. But I’ve …

by Brian Cathcart

Reading and watching the coverage of last Wednesday’s education protest reminded me of something that can be depressing for a journalist: modern news journalism is a weird and skew-eyed way of describing the world.

By common consent only a small minority of marchers took part in the violence at Millbank tower; indeed in the predictable language of some papers they “hijac…

'Newswire service Demotix used a conventional model from the outset, syndicating news reports from the public to news organisations and sharing proceeds 50/50.'

a few photos from the "journalists and the 'terror' laws" workshop, and the second plenary which was a question and answer session

This is a very full report and a few pictures from the "under siege: islam, war and the media" conference which took place on saturday at the LSE, organised by MWAW (media workers against the war)

The report covers in detail the speeches made during the first plenary

Read about the the 'journalists and terror laws' workshop here.