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Bulent, Man of Rural Turkey — a video by Ance Zemzane & Forest Kvasnikoff

A short video piece by Ance Zemzane (Latvia) and Forest Kvasnikoff (Alaska) about the life of Bulent, a man struggling to survive in the economy of Bademli, a small village in rural Turkey.


Bulent — Man of Rural Turkey from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

A Day in Bademli — A Movie by Chen Ying

A Day in Bademli, Turkey from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Worldwide Change — a PSA by Megan Waggoner

Worldwide Change — a PSA by Megan Waggoner from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Media Influences You — A Video by Aleksandrs Potaicuks

Media Influences You from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

The Difference Between Kids & Adults — a video by Pan Di

The Difference Between Kids & Adults — a video by Pan Di from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

China? — a video by Effie Wu

Just how accurate are popular images of China as we head into the 2008 Olympics? Watch this video by Effie Wu.

China? — a video by Effie Wu from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Education — A PSA created by Ania Gateau

Education from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Water Pollution — PSA by Pavel Cerbusca and Hojadurdy Gurbanov

A PSA by Pavel Cerbusca (Moldova) and Hojadurdy Gurbanov (Turkmenistan), students in the Intensive English program.
Audio: "Water Music" by George Frideric Handel.



Water Pollution from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Homeless Children — a video by Fleurantin Chrismedonne

A PSA about the situation of homeless children internationally, created by Fleurantin Chrismedonne from Haiti, a student in the Intensive English track.


Homeless Children from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Debate Promotion

A video created by Madina Dzhumaeva (Tajikistan), Irana Mirzoeva (Tajikistan), Azhar Akmoldina (Kazakhstan), and Maisa Babayeva (Turkmenistan), students in the Intensive English track.


Debate Promotion from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Child Abuse Awareness — a video by Asja Boric

A short video on the issue of child abuse by Asja Boric (Bosnia Herzegovina), a student in the Intensive English track.

Child Abuse Awareness — a video by Asja Boric from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

Discrimination Against Roma People

A short video piece by students in the Intensive English track: Melinda Jusztin, Georgiana Enache, Julieta Evtimova, Vergil Hasan Ibryam, and Alexander Iordanov.


Discrimination Against Roma People from Citizen Journalism Institute on Vimeo.

The Lazy Man's Guide to Web 2.0

FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don't have to.

No, I don't want to use Twitter. I'm way too busy—and, let's be honest, too uninterested (and uninteresting)—to spend all day thumb-typing status updates from my cell phone. That's the problem with Web 2.0 services like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, and the rest: They expect me to eagerly upload, type, click, and tweet my life onto the Internet so these tidbits can be served to others. What I really want is to be able to reap the advantages of these sites without having to lift a finger—to see what my friends are up to without having to write anything myself.

The problem is my friends are spread across dozens of different sites—Picasa, Pownce, Plurk, Pandora, Polyvore—and that's just the Ps. Most of them publish to two or three sites at minimum. Figuring out how to navigate each site is more work than I have time for. My fellow tech pundit Robert Scoble posts movies, photos, and text to more than a dozen sites. Can't I just get one page that lists everything Scoble did today?.....

Click here for the whole article.

Will Global Warming Revive Good Journalism?

from the Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch by Sheldon Rampton

"Media coverage of climate change is at a crossroads, as it moves beyond the science of global warming into the broader arena of what governments, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens are doing about it," reports Cristine Russell. She points out that the growing global warming beat offers "countless" angles for reporters to explore "on a story that is only going to get bigger and more complicated in the decades (yes, decades) ahead." Journalists, she writes, "will play a key role in shaping the information that opinion leaders and the public use to judge the urgency of climate change, what needs to be done about it, when and at what costs. It is a vast, multifaceted story whose complexity does not fit well with journalism’s tendency to shy away from issues with high levels of uncertainty and a time-frame of decades, rather than days or months."

Click here to read the whole Columbia Journalism Review article.

4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers....

Read the whole NY Times article here.

Who is doing real journalism?

So much of the real journalism that is occurring isn't from TV and magazine stars but largely from severely under-paid advocates at public interest groups and anonymous government whistle-blowers who aren't even meant to be "journalists"....

Read the whole Salon.com article here.

The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn

When Brad Pitt tells Eric Bana in the 2004 film Troy that “there are no pacts between lions and men,” he is not reciting a clever line from the pen of a Hollywood screenwriter. He is speaking Achilles’ words in English as Homer wrote them in Greek more than 2,000 years ago in the Iliad. The tale of the Trojan War has captivated generations of audiences while evolving from its origins as an oral epic to written versions and, finally, to several film adaptations. The power of this story to transcend time, language and culture is clear even today, evidenced by Troy’s robust success around the world.....

Read the whole Scientific American article by clicking here.