Another unusual citizen journalist created story made international headlines this fall after a Chinese woman was forced to have an abortion a month before her baby was due, due to China’s one child policy. Her distraught husband posted a blog about the experience and newspapers around the world, ranging from the Belfast Telegraph to the Washington Times, ran the story. During natural disasters also citizen journalists, through the use of social media platforms, are playing an ever increasing role.
Did You Know…
* You can follow the latest tweets from reporters around the world at http://muckrack.com/.
* You can check out the blogs of some of your favorite newspaper reporters and editors at http://technorati.com/blogs/top100/.
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Wow I can’t believe they didn’t get caught or something like theat
Well, I suspect they did because I couldn’t locate the original blog. He may have been forced to take it down.
I mean that
That is what I guessed, but thanks for the correction.
That’s heartbreaking.
Yes it is…And, I just read two more interesting stories about China. One highlighted the fact that China executes more people per year than the rest of the world combined (more than 10,000), and that China is putting people in mental hospitals who are assertive and speak back to authority…Thank goodness we have a free press and increasingly social media that is able to shine a light around the world…some terrible things happen in darkness.